Senior Communications Manager

The Industry & Partner Sales (IPS) team mission is to deliver growth and share by providing market and sales leadership across industry, partner and enterprise segments, with end-to-end sales accountability. Building on this organizational mission, the Communications & Events team mission is to develop and deliver a storytelling platform at scale to showcase industry, partner and customer innovation, growth and opportunity with Microsoft Cloud and AI.   

The IPS Communications and Events team needs an experienced, dynamic and creative Senior Communications Manager. You will work directly with the leaders and their Chiefs of Staff, and members of their leadership team to drive business impact and thought leadership. This is a strategic role that provides significant opportunity for exec visibility, cross-team collaboration, a breadth of communication experience and business impact.   

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.

Responsibilities

• Develop communications strategy for leaders and drive execution and scale of plans to deliver business impact and help increase sales pipeline  

• Develop core messaging and narrative to bring the mission and business priorities to life through dynamic storytelling    

• Demonstrate strategic leadership by driving impactful messaging for the business, aligning with the company mission, strategy, leadership principles and cultural attributes   

• Act as single-point-of-contact for any internal or external, speaking, traditional and social media requests for the leaders - partnering with appropriate teams to triage, check for alignment to strategy and team priorities and ensure that positioning and tone is appropriate for exec engagement   

• Create and align communications plans to RoB and broader communications   

• Drive and execute an orchestrated and thoughtful social media strategy  

• Other:

  Embody our Culture and Values

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications 

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Marketing, Communications, Finance, or related field AND 4+ years Communications, Marketing Operations, Field Operations, Program Management, Project Management, or related experience 
  • OR equivalent experience. 
• 2+ years experience supporting senior executives in an executive communic