Microsoft Worldwide Surface Category Director 

United States, Washington 

697488024

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Marketing, Computer Science, Business or related field AND 6+ years experience in business
  • OR Master's Degree in Marketing, Computer Science, Business or related field AND 4+ years experience in business
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 4+ years direct people management experience or indirect people management experience (or virtual teams)

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Marketing, Computer Science, Business or related field AND 12+ years experience in business
  • OR Master's Degree in Marketing, Computer Science, Business or related field AND 8+ years experience in business
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Experience with using data to drive prioritization and measure progress.
• Experience developing and delivering executive level presentations.
• Experience working on complex problems while retaining focus on maintaining a profitable business.
• People management experience.
• Experience working with Consumer or retail channels.
• Experience working in situations with high levels of ambiguity.

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Microsoft will accept applications for the role until September 19, 2024.

We are looking for a leader who lives our leadership principles, creating clarity, generating energy, and delivering success.

• Lead team(s) in defining, organizing, and driving our overall Surface strategy near term and longer range 18-24 months out related to investments, programs, and promotional tactics.
• Influence senior leadership and drive alignment across complex organizational structures.
• Lead team(s) to define significant business impact across the organization, success criteria, and performance metrics (e.g., Objectives and KPIs).

• Work on all aspects of business performance from initial fiscal year budgeting and planning, monthly and weekly insights on global performance, and long-range strategic projects.
• The candidate should be an exceptional communicator and storyteller; capable of delivering insights in a concise and consumable manner across the organization including our executives to enable decisions that ultimately run and grow our business.
• Key Competencies:

  This is a highly visible role that will require expertise in several areas:

  • Orchestrating, developing, and managing plans across large groups of executives and key stakeholders
  • Collaborating and developing strong relationships with various stakeholders across the company to drive impact
  • Ability to simplify the complex in our data and performance and deliver excellent communications (written, verbal)
  • Ability to balance and multi-task across multiple diverse projects with time sensitive deadlines
  • A deep understanding of business performance financials, metrics, and management
  • Financial acumen and ability to build models and analyse data to support business decision making