Senior Business Planner

The Azure, Windows, and Industry Monetization and Business Planning organization is a big picture team at our core that encourages a diverse and inclusive culture. We are respectful, collaborative, honest, and accountable. Employees on the team can expect to have opportunities to grow their own experiences and career while shaping the future of the major businesses with data-informed strategies. 

The team is responsible for monetization strategy, pricing, and packaging constructs for products representing over $100 billion of annual revenue. To deliver on this broad charter, we’ve built a center of excellence with an industry-leading reputation for strategic thought leadership. As a Senior Business Planner, you will deliver real impact by:

• Collaborating with engineering to turn new intellectual property and product roadmaps into revenue, growth, and profitability for Microsoft
• Creating business model frameworks that align with customer value
• Optimizing customer experience through new commerce innovation
• Creating incentive structures for our partner ecosystem to deliver value for end-customers
• Developing offer strategies to accelerate cross-cloud adoption and new user growth

You will be working in the Azure, Windows, and Industry Monetization and Business Planning organization in the group that is focused on driving the growth of a multi-billion dollar Compute and Strategic Partnerships business. We are seeking a business planning leader to develop business strategies, compelling monetization approaches, and effective packaging and pricing approaches to capture mindshare and create profitable growth. 

You will focus on the end to end execution of strategic partnerships, starting with business model and pricing development and proceeding through to execution to ensure our customers have all the information required to make significant technology investments. You will also work on strategic compute initiatives while managing your own portfolio. 

We encourage a diverse and inclusive culture, and each of us strives to be respectful, collaborative, honest, accountable, and caring. You will have opportunities to develop your career by forging effective cross-functional relationships, taking on progressively broader product portfolio coverage, and establishing yourself as a trusted strategic advisor to senior engineering, marketing, and finance leaders. You can expect to have sponsorship for your work, support for your professional development, and encouragement to bring your authentic self to work.

We are growth strategists who enable the Microsoft mission by creating durable profit growth through high-impact monetization strategies, packaging, and pricing. Our charter is significant and spans key growth engines for the company including all Azure solution areas, Windows client and cloud offerings, and our Education and industry offerings and programs. 

What I will do for you as your manager 

• Champion your success within the team and with leadership 

• Provide opportunities to gain new experiences and build on your strengths 

• Support who you are as your authentic self 

• Make your career development a consistent priority 

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

Growth Plans and Priorities

• Work across the product management unit to develop the key strategic initiatives for growth.
• Define and document business strategies and ensure the initiatives are aligned with those strategies and are well understood and prioritized across teams.

Monetization Approach

• Define how we maximize busi