Microsoft Business Manager 

United States, Washington 

328468276

Required/Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in relevant field (e.g., Liberal Arts, Business Administration, Management, Computer Science) AND 4+ years of experience in financial management, business planning, operations management, strategy, project management, human resources, or business-related roles
  • OR 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:

• 6+ years of business or program management in a global manufacturing or technology organization.
• 2+ years of business operations or data center domain experience.
• Project management, data analytics and organization skills.
• Proven effectiveness driving complex multi-stakeholder planning processes, driving cross-team programs to desired results.
• Experience collaborating across diverse groups, to drive clarity and effectiveness in rhythm of business and delivering projects on time.
• Proactive approach to change management.
• Business acumen and agility to ramp quickly across our diverse business and offerings.
• Experience managing complexity while driving clarity.
• Proven effectiveness driving complex multi-stakeholder planning processes, driving cross-team programs to desired results.
• Ability to synthesize complex ideas into easy-to-understand concepts for communications.

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 22, 2024.

Business Management:

• Understand the end-to-end business to manage priorities most effectively.
• Drive prioritization and prepare the team for weekly leadership staff.
• Lead the rhythm of business for fiscal year budget, headcount planning and semester planning process, driving content and alignment across teams for executive review.
• Facilitate execution of leadership team directed rhythms including financial planning, strategic planning, white papers, key results reviews, training, and organizational hygiene.
• Facilitate support for organizational health and leadership sponsorship in culture, diversity and inclusion, manager, and people excellence.

Special Projects/Programs and Initiatives:

• Drive cross-team projects as needed to meet the changing business environment and to manage complex business needs.
• Lead project/program management to ensure organization-wide implementation of strategic efforts that require coordination across multiple disciplines and business organizations.
• Create clarity on ambiguous projects and develop plans for execution.

Communications:

• Ensure success of leadership meetings, speaking engagements, partner, and team engagements (ex. Town Hall meetings, external speaking events).
• Tie the communication engagement plan into broader organizational rhythm and resources.

Other:

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