Business Administrator

Microsoft is a company where passionate innovators come to collaborate, envision what can be and take their careers further. This is a world of more possibilities, more innovation, more openness, and the sky is the limit thinking in a cloud-enabled world.

Microsoft’s Azure Data engineering team is leading the transformation of analytics in the world of data with products like databases, data integration, big data analytics, messaging & real-time analytics, and business intelligence. The products in our portfolio include Microsoft Fabric, Azure SQL DB, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure PostgreSQL, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Service Bus, Azure Event Grid, and Power BI. Our mission is to build the data platform for the age of AI, powering a new class of data-first applications and driving a data culture.

Within Azure Data, the databases team builds and maintains Microsoft's operational Database systems. We store and manage data in a structured way to enable multitude of applications across various industries. We are on a journey to enable developer friendly, mission-critical, AI enabled operational Databases across relational, non-relational and OSS offerings

The Azure Databases organization is hiring a Business Administrator who will partner closely with an engineering VP on the Azure Databases leadership team, providing strategic executive calendar support and management. If you thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic, and fun work environment and are passionate about supporting a busy executive with a team size of approx. 150, distributed across multiple time zones and geographies, then this could be the role for you! This role operates in various capacities, working with the leadership team by showing excellence in administrative functions. You will be responsible for Executive and partner-level interfaces, contact with customers, external partners, and all levels within Microsoft. The candidate will need to be able to navigate and change directions quickly within a fast-paced engineering environment; have stellar interpersonal and customer service skills; take initiative; demonstrate good judgment and can maintain confidentiality. You will also need to set priorities and handle multiple tasks simultaneously. Being detail oriented and having consistent and timely follow-through will be essential to success.

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Responsibilities

• Calendar Management with attention to accuracy, timeliness, conflict resolution and alignment to the leaders’ priorities and commitments in partnership with the executive office.
• Effectively utilize the leaders’ bandwidth through calendar management and monitoring for time efficiency.
• Partnering with leader and executive office with management of Rhythm of Business calendar and preparing and/or coordinating internal and external engagements and communications as required.
• Cross collaborating, planning, and managing logistics for leader’s team meetings such as Town Halls, staff meetings, morale events and team offsites.
• Assist executive office with managing the annual/quarterly discretionary budget for the team, headcount and PCN operations within your teams.
• Ensure smooth execution of travel coordination, booking, and scheduling.
• Distribution and Security Group ownership and management for the leaders’ teams.
• Proactively lead office space management for your leaders’ teams.
• Provide leadership and actively participate in the Business Support community. Collaborate closely with Business Support professionals embedded in the Databases team, mentor new Business Support staff, and contribute to the organization's culture.
• Embody our Culture  &  Values 

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications:

• 5+ years Administrative, Business Support, or customer service experience in an environment with an