Microsoft Senior Business Program Manager 

United States 

417751547

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Operations, Information Technology, Finance or related field AND 6+ years work experience in Operations, Process Design, Product Management, Program/Project Management, Strategy Consulting
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 2+ years experience in streamlining product, pricing and/or promotion launch processes or experience managing improvement efforts as a consultant.

Preferred Qualifications

• Proven ability to thrive and drive clarity in ambiguous situations, with adaptability and growth mindset
• Demonstrated ability as a project manager who can prioritize multiple activities to deliver on project scope and schedule
• Structured thinking and good problem-solving capabilities
• Prior consultingexperience highly preferred
• Excellent written, verbal, and presentation communication skills
• Prior experience working across engineering, business planning, and operations executive teams to clearly communicate improvement ideas and significant business impact, and obtain buy-in to improvement opportunities.

• Identify opportunities for improvement in product, packaging, and promotion launch processes and tools to help Microsoft launch products and services with greater agility and accuracy.
• Capture and analyze relevant data to clearly quantify and communicate the impact of workstreams to enable teams to prioritize accordingly
• Work across engineering, business planning, and operations executive teams to clearly communicate improvement ideas and significant business impact, and obtain buy-in to improvement opportunities
• Drive the building and operationalization of improvement initiatives through pragmatic implementation planning and thoughtful stakeholder engagement
• Project manage workstreams to completion with predictability, transparency, and clarity
• Manage teams of stakeholders from different organizations towards a common goal and timeline
• Execute change management to land changes and drive adoption
• Continuously listen and learn to surface additional high-impact workstreams
• Measure the success of the improvements made to drive more investment and scale impact
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