Lease Center of Excellence - Senior Program Manager
MicrosoftAbout the role
Microsoft Cloud Operations and Innovation (CO+I) is the team behind the Microsoft’s Cloud infrastructure and is responsible for innovating, planning, designing, building and operating one of the largest datacenter fleets in the world. We support product teams by providing a secure and trusted, cost-efficient and highly available global infrastructure that Microsoft’s customers depend on. We are seeking a Lease Center of Excellence - Senior Program Manager to join our Lease Center of Excellence. This pivotal role will drive the development, implementation, and optimization of strategic initiatives that bridge real estate and technology, propelling Microsoft forward.
This role involves collaboration with cross-functional teams to drive initiatives that enhance the performance and efficiency of our leased Datacenter (DC) portfolio. The role emphasizes fostering a culture of continuous improvement, utilizing data and insights for informed decision-making, and implementing changes based on those insights.
The successful candidate will bring a blend of analytics and insight development, program management and executive level communication skills. They will lead multiple simultaneous large-scale initiatives with a balance of technical leadership and business judgement. They will also bring a combination of business and planning-related domain expertise with the ability to work with diverse stakeholder groups to develop creative solutions to drive changes in our complex and rapidly growing Cloud Infrastructure.
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
- Program manages a medium to high complexity portfolio of regional and/or global real estate activities by evaluating, selecting, developing, and managing real estate transactions.
- Develops and presents project scope, supplier performance levels, stack plans, occupancy plans, regional strategies, and project updates for various Microsoft stakeholders and government entities.
- Drives execution of strategies aligned with company priorities within approved timelines.
- Develops and owns multi-year regional and participates in global strategies with stakeholders.
- Monitors program and service-delivery feedback to improve performance.
- Identifies goals and opportunities for improvement in partnership with the leadership team.
- Evaluates processes, collaborates with business partners and strategic vendors, and recommends, creates, and implements innovative solutions.
- Collaborates with client leadership to ensure complex project goal alignment and contributes needed technical knowledge to internal teams (e.g., Site Acquisition Managers, Finance, Procurement, Security, and Legal Affairs (CELA), Project Engineering, Business Risk Management, etc.)
- Facilitates and assists in obtaining business group management alignment with project options.
- Optimize lease portfolio performance through collaboration with stakeholders across the company (engineering, health & safety, marketing, sales, finance, legal) in development of business strategy, translate business strategy into an ecosystem strategy, and identify and architect partnerships and contracts that can drive significant new businesses for Microsoft.
- Identify, develop, and propose opportunities to support our growth by managing strategic relationships, and developing/leading strategy. Ensure environmental, health and safety, anti-corruption/anti-bribery and other considerations are being managed and executed optimally.
- Monitor operational performance and track efficacy relative to expectations post-close.
- Maintain ongoing relationship with partners to ensure compliance and commitments are fulfilled.
- Maintain a network of relationships across the industry with partners, potential partners, acquisition targets, competitors, investors, thought leaders, etc.
- Leverage relationships in opportunity identification and execution.
- Plays a vital role in strategic evaluation and business planning, coordination of financial, technical, tax and legal due diligence, and post-close integration planning.
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