Microsoft Senior Business Manager 

United States, Washington 

37055736

Microsoft’s Democracy Forward team works globally to safeguard open and secure democratic processes, promote a healthy information ecosystem, and advance corporate civic responsibility. Democracy Forward is part of Microsoft’s Technology for Fundamental Rights (TFR) team.In TFR, we work to make Microsoft technology useful and trustworthy and continue to up our ambition to evolve in a fast-paced and dynamic business and geopolitical landscape. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, courageous leadership, and learning at speed to enable teams and leaders to bring their best each day.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in relevant field (e.g., Public Policy, Business Administration, Management) AND 6+ years experience in financial management, business planning, operations management, strategy, project management, Diplomacy, Politics, human resources, or business-related roles

o OR equivalent experience.

• 2+ years’ experience working on societal issues related to technology, including generative AI.
  
• 2+ years’ experience working in or with a large, matrixed organization.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in relevant field (e.g., Public Policy, Business Administration, Management) AND 8+ years experience in financial management, business planning, operations management, strategy, project management, Diplomacy, Politics, human resources, or business-related roles

o OR Master's Degree in relevant field (e.g., Public Policy, Business Administration, Management) AND 5+ years experience in financial management, business planning, operations management, strategy, project management, Diplomacy, Politics, human resources, or business-related roles

o OR equivalent experience.

• Drives the architecting,developing, and executingoftheteam’srhythm of business (ROB). Workscloselywiththesenior leader toensureaccountability and deliveroutcomes.
• Leverages knowledge of organizational strategy and planned deliverables for the upcoming year(s) to design budgets.
• Develops forecasting plans in partnership with the leadership team.Overseethe development of metrics for budgeting and forecasting;identifiesactions that can be taken to course-correct and drive performance improvement;anticipatesbusiness challenges based on forecasts.
• Collaborates with leadersregardingresource management planning.

• theleader’stime by organizingregularcommunicationsto stakeholders; performs triage and ghostwriting on behalf of the leader toexpediteleader's time responding to emails.
• Developspresentations and messaging related to the team's mission and key projects.

Maximizing/ Extending the Leader

• objectives.
• Supports the leader in key business management areas (e.g., setting key goals, priorities, and definitions; team culture and health; communications; budget/finance; industry/specific business knowledge).
• Synthesizesinformation into insights that inform business decisions,leveragingexpertiseto influence the leader and leadership team.
• Leverages relationships to influence and advise on strategic decisions, content, and/orexpertise.
• Manages and builds relationships with senior leaders and executive internal leaders.

Organizational Health

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• Tracks the use of role-based compliancetrainingsand newtrainings; drives the training completion rates.

Special Projects/Programs and Initiatives

• Drives cross-team projects as needed.
• Engages in project management to ensure organization-wide implementation of strategic efforts that require hands-on coordination across multiple functional disciplines and business organizations.

• Establishes relationships with key governmental andcivil societystakeholders (e.g., peer and industry organizations, think tanks,NGOs,academics, businesses, community leaders);implements outreach strategies, and positions these partners as advocates for Microsoft's policy, political, and business priorities.

• Embody our