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Posted date: Jul 08, 2025
There have been 2 jobs posted with the title of Senior Business Analytics Specialist all time at Microsoft.Category: Analytics
Location: Redmond, WA
Estimated salary: $164,500
Range: $106,400 - $222,600
Employment type: Full-Time
Travel amount: 25.0%
Work location type: Up to 100% work from home
Role: Individual Contributor
Description
Modern Analytics & Insights function endeavors to foster an insights-driven culture; to encourage and enable positive business outcomes across the organization by driving right behaviors and decisions through bold insights. This team understands business goals, strategic drivers, success outcomes and associated behaviors. You will partner to meet a spectrum of demand across insights, analytics, objectives and key results (OKRs), reporting, and scorecards. Your passion and desire to define and enact the vision for insights & analytics will shape this function and team into a differentiator for the Microsoft Customer and Partner Solutions (MCAPS) Small, Medium, Enterprise & Channel (SME&C) organization. Come join a team where you can enable data insights that drive a multi-billion-dollar business!In SME&C we have set out to empower our customers through the unique value of the Microsoft cloud by building a globally led, digital-first scale organization aligned with partners. Dedicated to one of the fastest growing customer segments, SME&C is on pace to be Microsoft's next $100 billion-dollar business - this is where you come in. As part of local subsidiaries or Digital Sales centers around the world, you will support a set of customers in identifying and achieving their business objectives through industry-leading digital engagement and partner co-selling. You will also be able to work cross-collaboratively while living our shared priorities: Diversity and Inclusivity, Well-being, Sustainability, and Learning. If you have been described as customer obsessed and have a passion for digital-first solutions, we invite you to learn more about the SME&C organization and the value we deliver to our customers, partners, and one another, every day.
Modern Analytics & Insights function endeavors to foster an insights-driven culture; to encourage and enable positive business outcomes across the organization by driving right behaviors and decisions through bold insights. This team understands the business goals, strategic drivers, success outcomes and associated behaviors. You will partner to meet a spectrum of demand across insights, analytics, objectives and key results (OKRs), reporting, and scorecards. Come join a team where you can enable data insights that drive a multi-billion-dollar business!
As a Senior Business Analytics Specialist you will partner across the channel and partner ecosytem and sales motions and our field leaders, managers, and sellers by leading a team that generates transformative business insights through innovative data solutions. You will contribute to continuing the team’s progress toward being a recognized hub for forward thinking in the field of advanced data analytics. We are looking for a talented and motivated analytics professional who can lead the team in solving a wide variety of business problems with data insights - all with the goal of providing actionable insights into business processes and customer experience.
Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
Data AnalysisApplies expertise to determine industry-leading analytical tools and techniques to address business questions. Guides and partners with others to execute analyses, resolve analytical challenges, interpret results across relevant contexts, and provide actionable insights and recommendations to business stakeholders. Critically evaluates assumptions about data or analysis methods to ensure they are appropriate for answering business questions in context and provides feedback on features and functions of analytical tools (e.g., algorithms, statistical models) developed by Engineering or Data Science teams.EvaluationDetermines factors and/or data types/frameworks to include in the evaluation of the impact of business, product, and/or operational decisions that provide relevant assessments of impact. Ensures that evaluations can account for anticipated risks and applies learnings from previous evaluations. Synthesizes results across evaluation instances, identifies relevant connections to other work, and makes recommendations for next steps linked to strategic business goals.Expertise in DataLeverages appropriate types and sources of data and/or metrics, understands how business needs translate into data requirements and evaluates sufficiency of data sources, determines needs for integrating additional data, and identifies, anticipates, and addresses gaps and data quality issues with data providers, in partnership with other teams. Leverages relevant data, frameworks, and/or analyses from other teams, and ensures that data access and quality issues are addressed. Begins collaborating with data analysts and data engineers to build data pipelines or integrations used to address business needs and advises other analysts on ideal ways to present and discuss data to influence business stakeholders' decision making. Applies fundamental understanding of data governance to work to ensure the solutions they and/or their project teams produce have the right level of security applied (encryption, role restrictions) and are aligned with company policy.Operational Excellence: Skilled at elevating partner data infrastructure, improving reporting capabilities, and unifying key data sources such as efforts from OSSOT (One Single Source of Truth) to support robust, faster data-driven decision-making.BI Platform Enhancement: Demonstrated expertise in consolidating, migrating, and streamlining partner data sources, supporting Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program (MAICPP) requirements, and optimizing the Business Requirements Document (BRD) process for Partner Center engineering. Adept at advancing Partner Skilling Business Intelligence (BI) and driving the modernization of program benefits usage and acceleration for designation and readiness.Improvement, Efficiency, and InnovationIdentifies and promotes methods that create efficiency in core work related to analytics and reporting that are reusable, readily discoverable by decision-makers, self-service, and directed to meaningful interpretation of data that drive business decisions and impact. Recommends and socializes optimal methods for sharing, standardizing, and scaling insights. Evaluates the viability and relevance of automated methods and efficiency gains that leverage Artificial Intelligence (AI) for use in reporting, and/or analysis to recommend when they should become standard practices.Orchestration and CollaborationLeverages working relationships within and across teams to ensure quality data sources, methodologies, as well as the appropriate application of analytical tools and processes, and drives their adoption, to facilitate relevant insight generation, reporting, and interpretation. Proactively engages stakeholders to identify and act on opportunities to leverage resources and solutions that were instrumental to success in similar contexts, and consults across teams on decisions related to analyses, insights reporting, and/or their interpretation.Strategic Partner Program Development: Capability to plan, build and expand partner BI programs, ensuring alignment between business intelligence projects with broader go-to-market and digital experience objectives.Cross-Functional Transformation: Experience in leading changes across multiple business functions, focusing on operationalizing criticial reporting for Partner fiscal year planning such as Partner Segmentation and targeting, Partner performance metrics, and activating data driven insights.Presentation of ResultsDevelops appropriate presentations that tell stories of analyses, including dashboards, reports, data visualizations, self-service platforms, slides, and talking points that highlight relevant insights. Synthesizes details across analyses and reporting platforms into a cohesive story that serves to inform business decisions, and identifies opportunities to improve efficiency of reporting and presentations. Guides others to ensure presented results are accessible, and provide information accurately, clearly, and with sufficient relevance to influence decision making for intended audience(s).Understanding the BusinessBuilds understanding of their area of the business across multiple areas, links internal business topics to relevant external trends, and anticipates business problems including how external trends can impact internal business. Proactively anticipates business questions and identifies appropriate insights or plausible analytical solutions to suggest in response. Engages with and understands business stakeholder needs and translates that into technical requirements. May coach others to help them broaden business knowledge.Domain Expertise: Deep knowledge of partner data systems and Global Partner Solutions (GPS) processes, including expertise in partner propensity modeling, partner sales analytics, and proficiency in MSX (MCEM stages activities) to drive system improvements and informed decisions.Other
Embody our Culture and Values
Qualifications
Required/minimum qualificationsMaster's Degree in Mathematics, Analytics, Engineering, Computer Science, Marketing, Business, Economics or related field AND 3+ years experience in data analysis and reporting, business intelligence, or business and financial analysis OR Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Finance, Mathematics, Analytics, Engineering, Computer Science, Marketing, Business, Economics or related field AND 4+ years experience in data analysis and reporting, business intelligence, or business and financial analysisOR equivalent experience.2+ years working in a partner or channel ecosystem, preferably within a sales organization. Additional or preferred qualificationsMaster's Degree in Mathematics, Analytics, Engineering, Computer Science, Marketing, Business, Economics or related field AND 6+ years experience in data analysis and reporting, business intelligence, or business and financial analysis OR Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Finance, Mathematics, Analytics, Engineering, Computer Science, Marketing, Business, Economics or related field AND 8+ years experience in data analysis and reporting, business intelligence, or business and financial analysisOR equivalent experience.Business Analytics IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $106,400 - $203,600 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $137,600 - $222,600 per year.
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Microsoft will accept applications for the role until July 13, 2025.
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