Business Management IC6

Microsoft•Redmond, WA

About The Position

Business Planning & Financial Management Fiscal Year OPEX and Headcount Planning Drive the annual planning process for operational expenses (OPEX), discretionary expenses (training, morale, travel, computer) and headcount. Ensure timely development, submission, and alignment with organizational priorities. Partner with GGPO VP and Leadership team to draft Future State org design updates. Build in sufficient time for workback, including reviews for each group and executives, meeting all key milestones and deadlines. Collaborate across teams to define, manage, and report on budgets and quarterly forecasts for the global organization in compliance with company standards. Deliver bi-weekly reporting to the Leadership Team (LT) and proactively identify opportunities to redeploy underspend toward top business priorities within the quarter. Manage organizational blueprint updates and design changes. Ensure new hires are welcomed and set up for success by coordinating onboarding activities, announcements, and activation on collaboration tools and internal communication channels. Responsibilities include content development, speech writing, LinkedIn presence management, and ensuring consistent messaging across all channels. Manage the communications review and approval process for content originating from subject matter professionals (SMEs) or other organizations intended for distribution by the GGPO VP. Ensure accuracy, alignment with organizational priorities, and adherence to tone and branding guidelines. Ensure compliance with governance standards, including processes for training, purchasing, and hiring. Bachelor's Degree in relevant field (e.g., Liberal Arts, Business Administration, Management, Computer Science) AND 8+ years experience in financial management, business planning, operations management, strategy, project management, human resources, or business-related roles Master's Degree in relevant field (e.g., Liberal Arts, Business Administration, Management, Computer Science) AND 12+ years experience in financial management, business planning, operations management, strategy, project management, human resources, or business-related roles OR Bachelor's Degree in relevant field (e.g., Liberal Arts, Business Administration, Management, Computer Science) AND 15+ years experience in financial management, business planning, operations management, strategy, project management, human resources, or business-related roles OR equivalent experience. Proven people-centric leader and people manager: Able to thrive in a developmentally minded, relationship-based environment. 4+ years of people management experience, building, developing, and retaining top professional talent, modeling diversity and inclusion behaviors. Passionate, results-driven and organized approach, with an attention to detail: A self-starter who can create and deliver scalable plans from concept to delivery, including an ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects, effectively driving to measurable results. The ability to work cross-team in ambiguous and changing environments, along with solid listening and partnering skills. Engagement expertise: Storytelling skills and passion for delighting partners, advocating on their behalf, creating amazing partner experiences, and understanding the linkage between these experiences and business success. Global leadership at scale, influence without authority: Experience leading/navigating large cross-functional teams is a critical skill for success. Disruptive Innovation: Incremental change is the enemy of disruptive innovation. Comfortable questioning the status quo by proposing innovative approaches and believe the way to dispute an approach is to suggest a different one. Realizes that solutions are built with others, not in competition with them. Brings demonstrated experience proposing, creating, and managing executive level proposals and presentations. Leading change that drives adoption: Experience with large-scale transformations and know that driving change is about bringing people, partners, and customers along on the journey, not telling them where to go. Critical thinking and strategic insight based on data: Knows that ego is no match for data, so data is the North Star. Will challenge assumptions and current practices with a data-driven approach. Business Acumen: The ability to understand the parts of the business and their interrelationships. This includes skill in understanding the industry, competition, and expected future developments and challenges, the business's strengths and weaknesses, opportunities to grow the business and awareness of the environment for opportunities. Executive Relations: The ability to interact confidently with top leaders in a highly-matrixed organization to present/defend/clarify concerns or issues regarding an existing project, program, or solution. This includes the ability to confidently address difficult questions, handle push back from a high-level audience, and maintain an executive demeanor while engaging in difficult or sometimes high-pressure situations.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in relevant field (e.g., Liberal Arts, Business Administration, Management, Computer Science) AND 8+ years experience in financial management, business planning, operations management, strategy, project management, human resources, or business-related roles
Master's Degree in relevant field (e.g., Liberal Arts, Business Administration, Management, Computer Science) AND 12+ years experience in financial management, business planning, operations management, strategy, project management, human resources, or business-related roles
Bachelor's Degree in relevant field (e.g., Liberal Arts, Business Administration, Management, Computer Science) AND 15+ years experience in financial management, business planning, operations management, strategy, project management, human resources, or business-related roles OR equivalent experience.
Proven people-centric leader and people manager: Able to thrive in a developmentally minded, relationship-based environment.
4+ years of people management experience, building, developing, and retaining top professional talent, modeling diversity and inclusion behaviors.
Passionate, results-driven and organized approach, with an attention to detail: A self-starter who can create and deliver scalable plans from concept to delivery, including an ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects, effectively driving to measurable results.
The ability to work cross-team in ambiguous and changing environments, along with solid listening and partnering skills.
Engagement expertise: Storytelling skills and passion for delighting partners, advocating on their behalf, creating amazing partner experiences, and understanding the linkage between these experiences and business success.
Global leadership at scale, influence without authority: Experience leading/navigating large cross-functional teams is a critical skill for success.
Disruptive Innovation: Incremental change is the enemy of disruptive innovation. Comfortable questioning the status quo by proposing innovative approaches and believe the way to dispute an approach is to suggest a different one. Realizes that solutions are built with others, not in competition with them.
Brings demonstrated experience proposing, creating, and managing executive level proposals and presentations.
Leading change that drives adoption: Experience with large-scale transformations and know that driving change is about bringing people, partners, and customers along on the journey, not telling them where to go.
Critical thinking and strategic insight based on data: Knows that ego is no match for data, so data is the North Star. Will challenge assumptions and current practices with a data-driven approach.
Business Acumen: The ability to understand the parts of the business and their interrelationships. This includes skill in understanding the industry, competition, and expected future developments and challenges, the business's strengths and weaknesses, opportunities to grow the business and awareness of the environment for opportunities.
Executive Relations: The ability to interact confidently with top leaders in a highly-matrixed organization to present/defend/clarify concerns or issues regarding an existing project, program, or solution. This includes the ability to confidently address difficult questions, handle push back from a high-level audience, and maintain an executive demeanor while engaging in difficult or sometimes high-pressure situations.

Responsibilities

Drive the annual planning process for operational expenses (OPEX), discretionary expenses (training, morale, travel, computer) and headcount.
Partner with GGPO VP and Leadership team to draft Future State org design updates.
Collaborate across teams to define, manage, and report on budgets and quarterly forecasts for the global organization in compliance with company standards.
Deliver bi-weekly reporting to the Leadership Team (LT) and proactively identify opportunities to redeploy underspend toward top business priorities within the quarter.
Manage organizational blueprint updates and design changes.
Ensure new hires are welcomed and set up for success by coordinating onboarding activities, announcements, and activation on collaboration tools and internal communication channels.
Responsibilities include content development, speech writing, LinkedIn presence management, and ensuring consistent messaging across all channels.
Manage the communications review and approval process for content originating from subject matter professionals (SMEs) or other organizations intended for distribution by the GGPO VP.
Ensure compliance with governance standards, including processes for training, purchasing, and hiring.

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