Chief of Staff, Corporate Functions Human Resources

Microsoft • Redmond, WA

201d • $130,900 - $277,200 • Remote

About The Position

If you want to join a highly collaborative, ambitious, motivated, and fun team of Human Resources (HR) professionals, while seeking to challenge yourself, learn, grow your career, and work with amazing people to drive strategic business outcomes, then we want you! We are seeking a Chief of Staff for the Corporate Functions HR organization who can think strategically in a complex and fast paced environment and quickly operationalize into tangible results that scale through trusted partnerships. You will be a part of a high performing and inclusive team that drives the Business Management across a portfolio of HR Business Partners supporting four Executive Vice President (EVP) and HR Consulting. The Chief of Staff will report to the VP, Corporate Functions HR who leads a 125+ person HR organization, and will partner closely with the CFHR leadership team and other key stakeholders including Center of Excellence (COE) and HR Partners (Global Diversity & Inclusion [GD&I], Compensation, Global Talent Acquisition [GTA], HR Business Insights [HRBI], HR Consulting, Geo HR Leaders). The role will be responsible for day-to-day interactions to impact, shape, simplify and create value across our ways of working for our HR team and the businesses we partner with. This position will be located in our Redmond, WA office.

Requirements

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

Nice To Haves

• High degree of business and people acumen, and ability to impact and influence multiple stakeholders including other leaders.
• Able to manage multiple projects, deal with ambiguity, work in a team environment, recognize trends, and identify systematic approaches to solving problems in this fast moving, dynamic environment.
• Demonstrated success in managing HR Programs in a complex, diverse, matrix, and global business environment.

Responsibilities

• Drives business direction and responsibility for their client aligned leadership team to manage the planning process ensuring coordination with corporate planning processes as well as planning integration across the broader organization.
• Drives the architecting, developing, and executing the rhythm of business (ROB).
• Works with executive leaders to drive outcomes.
• Provides direction for identifying and determining objectives to execute which are in alignment with the goals of the organization.
• Drives business review cadence.
• Ensures adherence to privacy and compliance.
• Collaborates with internal stakeholders and Microsoft teams to oversee the creation and implementation of execution plans and projects.
• Sets best practices for strategy leveraging consolidated information, advocating for business cases, and presents cases to leader and business partners.
• Leads and oversees projects and processes to ensure alignment across groups.
• Establishes key performance indicators (KPIs) in alignment with strategy to help streamline business strategy.
• Works with the organization to establish and report against targets, and adjusts targets if necessary.
• Leverages knowledge of organizational strategy and planned deliverables for the upcoming year(s) to help design budgets.
• Develops forecasting plans in partnership with the leadership team.
• Collaborates with leaders regarding resource management planning.
• Ensures that the leader is aligned on the head-count strategy.
• Leverages knowledge of the leader's goals and approach to ensure team activities are aligned with the leader's objectives.
• Supports the leader in communicating key goals, priorities, and definitions.
• Maximizes a culture to support and represent the leader and team.
• Participates in and provides perspective and a point of view to the leader on specific areas within or external to the organization, and with regard to communications, budgets, people, and the team pulse.
• Informs tactical and strategic business decisions for leader.
• Manages and cultivates relationships with leaders and peers of internal teams.
• Monitors team/organization health and supports the leader in responding to team culture issues, as well as promoting culture initiatives (e.g., Diversity and Inclusion [D&I], hiring, on-boarding).
• Tracks Employee Listening Systems responses and assists with action planning.
• Tracks the use of role-based compliance training and new training.
• Ensures a healthy compliance scorecard for the team/organization.
• Identify, analyze, and drive insights around key metrics that help measure the success of our people investments.
• Oversees budget for their teams and efficiently manages and spends within the budget throughout the year in accordance with the company's budgeting process.
• Build inclusive team culture and positive org health for HR and Business.
• Create partnership with global Executive Assistant (EA) and Business Manager (BM) community to drive continuity and business effectiveness.
• Manage reporting, leveraging InsightsHR, ELS and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to take a data-driven approach.
• Keep both the Business and HRLT informed of key trends through regular insights.
• Design leader's internal and external comms strategy.
• Support the leader on customer and external engagements, coordinating with the account team and engagement organizers, creating the decks and highlighting talking points.
• Coordinates and leads the Business Management community across the CPO Organization.
• Organize Offsites, All Hands, Ask Me Anythings (AMAs) and roundtables to generate energy and create clarity for teams.
• Identify and engage with multiple stakeholder groups to ensure alignment on business priorities and people related comms.
• Activate Center of Excellence (CoE) / Business / Customer partnerships to achieve desired outcomes.
• Drives cross-team projects as needed to meet the changing business environment and manage complex business needs.
• Engages in project management or may act as a project/program manager to ensure organization-wide implementation of strategic efforts that require hands-on coordination across multiple functional disciplines and business organizations.

Benefits

• Industry leading healthcare
• Educational resources
• Discounts on products and services
• Savings and investments
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Generous time away
• Giving programs
• Opportunities to network and connect

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Publishing Industries
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree