Chief of Staff, Corporate Functions Human Resources

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.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more, and we’re dedicated to this mission across every aspect of our company. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day.  

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.  
    

Maximizing/ Extending the Leader   

• 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