Microsoft Principal Program Manager – Real Estate Contract Management 

United States, Washington 

902917768

Required/Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Business Management, Real Estate, Project Management, or related field AND 7+ years relevant experience
  • OR 10+ years equivalent experience

Other Requirements:

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to, the following specialized security screenings:

• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred/Additional Qualifications:

• Juris Doctorate Degree or Equivalent International Degree
• OR Completion of a Legal Apprenticeship.
• 5+ years of experience as a practicing attorney
• OR equivalent practice of law.
• Organizational skills with demonstrated adaptability and resilience.
• Proven track record of achieving results amidst ambiguity across multiple organizations.
• Ability to simplify complex ideas into easy-to-understand concepts.
• Experience driving motivation, creativity, adaptability, unquestionable ethics and integrity, with a bias to data-based decision-making and a willingness to take calculated risks.
• Proficiency in use of process improvement methodology (ex. Lean, Six Sigma, and DMAIC-Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control).

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until August 2, 2024.

• Owns strategic contract management programs, including delivery of executive monthly dashboard, risk registers and mitigation plans.
• Defines programs and collaborates with executives to update and operationalize, driving execution of strategies aligned with company priorities within approved timelines.
• Makes informed project decisions with other subject-matter experts.
• Develops a playbook to define processes to manage all project intercepts and retrofits as we align to new designs; collaborates with technical and legal teams, ensuring alignment with evolving Basis of Design (BoD) requirements.
• Participates in complex contract management initiatives, understands customer requests and shares information to drive action across teams, overcomes obstacles by resolving issues, and engages stakeholders to fulfill goals.
• Ensures lessors are complying with standards and regulations for a large-sized portfolio.
• Develops and implements strategies for continuous improvement in contract management processes to support the evolving needs of the business.
• Independently identifies goals and opportunities for improvement.
• Evaluates processes, collaborates with business partners and strategic vendors, and recommends, creates, and implements innovative solutions.
• Provides continuous feedback and evaluates processes and utilizes resources to leverage operational excellence initiatives that significantly improve the quality, timeliness, and efficiency of projects.
• Simplifies and summarizes highly complex/multidimensional issues into actionable strategies and recommendations for key stakeholders and Microsoft senior executives.
• Influence and drive results in a complex and highly ambiguous technical and business environment including ability to communicate and influence all levels from senior executives on down and all functions (including engineering, marketing, sales, services, finance and legal).
• Independently lead cross-disciplinary virtual teams and drive key business development initiatives for moderately complex programs from creation to implementation in partnership with upper-level leaders.

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