Microsoft Director Strategic Planning Commercial Marketing 

United States, Washington 

951975003

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Operations, Finance or related field AND 8+ years work experience in program management, process management, process improvement
  • OR equivalent experience
• 8+ years of experience leading B2B Marketing, Go-To-Market (GTM) and/or Sales planning process.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Operations, Finance or related field AND 12+ years work experience in program management, process management, process improvement
  • OR equivalent experience
• 8+ years of experience B2B marketing with experience in digital marketing planning, project management skills, analytical abilities, and communication skills.

• Experience in strategic planning across sales and/or marketing with the ability to bring clarity to complex situations, with comms experience.

• A proven track record of working in large, complex matrixed organizations, coordinating across large numbers of stakeholders

• Growth mindset to continually be learning and improving, along with a passion to help other be successful.

• Experience presenting or pitching to senior level stakeholders

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Microsoft will accept applications for the role until July 9, 2024.

• Lead a cross-business team to develop a framework for commercial planning and performance reviews.
• You will work across a complex set of stakeholders in other organizations to collectively design a planning process and Rhythm of Business (ROB) that meets the needs of the business. From the details of templates and workbacks, to the strategy of executive landing and investments, you will need to be able to operate at multiple levels across various projects.
• Develop executive commercial marketing performance reviews. Working across stakeholders from many parts of the business, you will drive alignment across key metrics, provide coaching to ensure executive storytelling with actionable insights, and seek out cross business learnings.
• Produce regular, clear executive communications. Ensuring a broad set of stakeholders are informed around planning, milestones, and performance impact will be critical for success.
• Create and deliver business requirements for new tools and tech to the forefront of our planning process, including the use of generative AI for advancing planning.
• Model and coach growth mindset and inclusivity to influence a high performing team, with great culture. While this is an individual contributor role, we are looking for team culture leader.
• A learn-it all leader will be curious, adaptable and coachable to adjust to the changing needs of our business and ensure our teammates are encouraged, feel valued, and growing personally and professionally.

• Embody our