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Posted date: May 08, 2025
There have been 25 jobs posted with the title of Senior Business Manager all time at Microsoft.Category: Business Operations
Location: Redmond, WA
Estimated salary: $147,550
Range: $94,600 - $200,500
Employment type: Full-Time
Travel amount: 25.0%
Work location type: Up to 50% work from home
Role: Individual Contributor
Description
The Marketing organization at Microsoft is looking to hiring a Senior Business Manager to support the Office of the Chief Marketing Officer, his leadership team, and overall Marketing organization. In this role, you will be responsible for managing business operations that includes: RoBs (Rhthym of Business) for CoSX (Chief of Staff Extended team), OCMO (Office of Chief Marketing Officer), and MLT (Marketing Leadership Team) initiatives, resource planning, traveling planning, budget management in partnership with finance, organizational key initiative alignment, and other special projects/programs.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.
In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.
Business Operations
Partners with the leadership team to develop and execute planning processes, ensuring coordination with corporate planning processes as well as planning integration across the broader organization. Helps in managing the team's rhythm of business (ROB). Works with cross-company/team counterparts to manage team participation as needed for key business events, next fiscal year planning, running business reviews, and other strategic business planning activities.Collaborates with the leadership team to articulate objectives that are in alignment with the goals of the organization. Reviews adherence to privacy and compliance.Ensures internal continuation of business operations during all times, including periods of change or special circumstances. Contributes to finding workable solutions to business problems. Communicates business continuity plans with Microsoft corporate Crisis Management, Business Continuity teams, and with partners.Collaborates with internal stakeholders and Microsoft teams to oversee the creation and implementation of execution plans. Ensures alignment for strategy initiatives across functions for their area of ownership. Identifies best practices for strategy execution, leverages information, advocating for business cases, and may present cases to leader. Researches and proposes options to the leadership team. Tracks and reports on key performance indicators (KPIs); may define measurement plans.Uses understanding of the organization's strategy and deliverables for the upcoming year(s) to design budgets. Uses short and/or long-term forecasting plans built in collaboration with the leadership team. Contributes to identification of actions that can course-correct and drive performance improvement. May manage complex budgets with significant negotiation. Works with Procurement team to coordinate future resources. Collaborates with leaders regarding resource management planning.
Maximizing/ Extending the Leader
Leverages or continues to build broader networks to foster strong relationships that support execution across the business. Manages and cultivates relationships with leaders and peers of internal teams.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. Supports the landing of organizational changes (e.g., employee data management, skilling plans, landing quota).
Organizational Health
Monitors team/organization health and supports the leader in responding to team culture issues, as well as promoting culture initatives (e.g., Diversity and Inclusion [D&I], hiring, onboarding) while partnering with Human Resources to do so. In partnership with Human Resources, tracks Microsoft Poll responses and assists with a response. Tracks the use of role-based compliance trainings and new trainings; drives the training completion rates. Plans and executes on trainings. Ensures a healthy compliance scorecard for the team/organization.
Special Projects/Programs and Initiatives
Contributes to cross-team projects as needed to meet the changing business environment and manage business needs. Engages in well-defined projects/programs while executing aspects of projects/programs for larger areas, including work on strategic efforts that require hands-on experience which may be across multiple disciplines.
Specialty Responsibilities
Supports the development of content for internal communication. Partners and leads communications team to land internal and/or external content. Communicates relevant information to the organization as required.Leverages manager input to create foundational and storytelling content to articulate strategies, results and goals for internal and external forums (e.g., external or customer meetings, executive meetings, event presentations). Synthesizes findings within workstream and identifies links to broader strategic efforts for content and external facing thought leadership. Leverages understanding of audience needs to ensure content is tailored to audience preferences and breaks down complex information into actionable steps for audience. Carries out related reporting and exception management as required.Helps drives accountability for the team and organization in executing core business activities. Uses understanding of priorities based on scorecards and communicates in a simple way. Aligns priorities with key performance indicators (KPIs) and performance metrics. Creates clarity in ambiguous situations to facilitate and drive prioritization and decision making for leaders across the organization. May use qualitative data for tracking performance.
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Qualifications
Required/Minimum QualificationsBachelor's Degree in relevant field (e.g., Liberal Arts, Business Administration, Management, Computer Science) AND 4+ years experience in financial management, business planning, operations management, strategy, project management, human resources, or business-related rolesOR equivalent experience.
Additional or Preferred Qualifications
Bachelor's Degree in relevant field (e.g., Liberal Arts, Business Administration, Management, Computer Science) AND 6+ years experience in financial management, business planning, operations management, strategy, project management, human resources, or business-related roles OR Master's Degree in relevant field (e.g., Liberal Arts, Business Administration, Management, Computer Science) AND 3+ years experience in financial management, business planning, operations management, strategy, project management, human resources, or business-related roleOR equivalent experience.Business Management IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $94,600 - $183,800 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 $122,000 - $200,500 per year.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
Microsoft will accept applications for the role until 5/11/2025.
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