Microsoft Director Business Planning 

United States 

878894275

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• 7+ years product management, strategy consulting, finance, business/corporate development, or related experience
  • OR equivalent experience.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

• 12+ years product management, strategy consulting, finance, business/corporate development, or related experience AND Bachelor's Degree in Engineering/Computer Science, Economics, Business, or related field
  • OR 8+ years product management, strategy consulting, finance, business/corporate development, or related experience AND Master's Degree in Business Administration (MBA), or related field
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Results-oriented problem solver with the ability to drive analytical insight into complex business problems, build consensus through senior stakeholder communications, lead cross-group execution, and land customer-facing business impact.
• Ability to strategically think and build excellent business analytics, quantitative problem solving, and material business impact.
• Effective project management skills with attention to detail.
• Ability to prioritize and manage through ambiguity and achieve strong business results, often across overlapping projects.
• Track record of partnering and consulting to senior leaders and cross-group stakeholders to build confidence and earn trust.
• Effective written, verbal, and presentation communications skills.

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Microsoft will accept applications for the role until January 29, 2025.

• Define business strategy, business model, pricing, packaging and compete strategies for your products
• Drive decision making with senior executive stakeholders and orchestrate implementation and execution for launching new business models and offers
• Engage closely with engineering to inform product development and drive alignment between product and monetization strategy
• Partner with product marketing and sales teams on go to market strategies to land new offers in market, create promotions and enable compete strategies
• Orchestrate research and financial modelling to identify market growth opportunities and drive business case development
• Partner with operations teams on operationalizing new offerings and successfully making them available to customers and partners
• Represent Business Planning in cross-company business planning forums, field, and partner events, etc.
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