Microsoft · 1 day ago
Senior Business Program Manager
Redmond, WA
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid, Senior Level
$117K/yr - $204K/yr
6+ years expMicrosoft is an engineering organization that aims to deliver products, services, and devices that people and organizations trust and love. The Senior Business Program Manager will lead strategic programs focusing on employee experiences and business operations, driving diversity, inclusion, and strengthening community connections within the global engineering sites.
Agentic AIApplication Performance ManagementArtificial Intelligence (AI)Business DevelopmentDevOpsInformation ServicesInformation TechnologyManagement Information SystemsNetwork SecuritySoftware
Responsibilities
Global Rhythm of Business (RoB): Plan and execute the cadence of meetings, initiatives, and communications to keep all sites aligned. Organize regular forums (monthly syncs, quarterly calls, annual summits) and maintain engagement between meetings
Virtual Leadership: Chair and connect a network of ~40+ site BPMs, facilitating community calls, workshops, and peer collaboration. Drive standardization and alignment with corporate programs, facilitating the exchange of best practices, playbooks, and solutions among sites and encourage standardization of approaches by incorporating Corp programs and initiatives for global consumption
OKR Alignment and Reporting: Own the Objectives and Key Results (OKR) process for the community, ensuring local plans ladder up to strategic goals and tracking outcomes with common metrics. Serve as the liaison to executive stakeholders, preparing high-quality updates for executive sponsors and the E+D executive office
Budget and Operations Oversight: Guide community budget usage, establish spend principles, and chair budget reviews to ensure prudent, consistent use of funds in partnership with Finance
E+D D&I Strategy: Define and execute a unified diversity and inclusion strategy for the E+D Division in alignment with Microsoft’s values and goals, set community-wide D&I objectives and ensure local plans ladder up to Microsoft goals
Governance: Chair the E+D D&I council and inclusion network workstreams, partner with Corporate D&I, and translate company-wide initiatives into actionable guidance for all business groups and sites
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree in Business, Operations, Finance, or related field AND 6+ years' experience in program management, process management, or process improvement leading large cross-divisional programs and teams from strategy formulation to implementation + OR equivalent experience
Preferred
Master's Degree in Business, Operations, Finance, or related field AND 8+ years' experience in program management, process management, or process improvement leading large cross-divisional programs and teams from strategy formulation to implementation OR Bachelor's Degree in Business, Operations, Finance, or related field AND 12+ years' experience in program management, process management, or process improvement leading large cross-divisional programs and teams from strategy formulation to implementation + OR equivalent experience
A passion for Microsoft's mission and creating a vibrant, inclusive work environment for engineers worldwide will help energize their work
Considerable problem-solving skills and advanced knowledge of business program management and operational processes
Ability to influence, and lead and manage global virtual teams and programs
Ability to collaborate across team – flexibility, proactiveness, teamwork, and ability to effectively communicate with all levels and work in a fast-paced environment
Bias for Action and Results - takes ownership and drives projects forward independently – a “go-getter” who can identify what needs to be done and rally others to execute. They will need to handle ambiguity and be solution-oriented, especially when coordinating across geographies and business groups
High capacity for multitasking, context switching, able to manage multiple, high-stakes projects simultaneously under deadline constraints
Self-directed and self-confident with great initiative and sense of ownership. Ability to persuade, lead, and motivate others
Demonstrated ability to synthesize the complex - able to take multiple, complicated, disparate inputs and transform it into simple, clear, succinct actions and initiatives
Proficient in Modern SharePoint site creation and editing; advanced knowledge of Excel
Company
Microsoft
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