Senior Business Manager

You will have tangible impact on a growing organization, getting things done across large and diverse global teams and developing practices and reporting that streamline the business and drive results. You will support the CVP (Corporate Vice President) of EPC (Engineering, Procurement, Construction) and partner with other business managers and the EPC leadership team to help us effectively and efficiently operate a complex and diverse organization. You’ll be a vital, trusted member of this tight-knit team and you’ll participate in challenging, fast paced execution to contribute big-picture thinking and strategic execution. A successful candidate will have cross group organizational skills, relevant financial planning and management experience, well developed analytical and problem-solving capabilities, experience in successfully leading complex strategies and projects to completion, and agile communication skills. We are looking to hire a Senior Business Manager to join our team.

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

Business Operations/Business Management

• Partners with the leadership team to develop and execute planning processes, ensuring coordination with corporate planning processes as well as planning integration across the broader organization. Helps in managing the team's rhythm of business (ROB) to ensure projects complete on time. Works with cross-company/team counterparts to manage team participation as needed for key business events, next fiscal year planning, running business reviews, and other strategic business planning activities. Collaborates with the leadership team to articulate objectives that are in alignment with the goals of the organization. Reviews adherence to privacy and compliance.
• Ensures internal continuation of business operations during all times, including periods of change or special circumstances. Contributes to finding workable solutions to business problems.
• Collaborates with internal stakeholders and Microsoft teams to oversee the creation and implementation of execution plans. Ensures alignment for strategy initiatives across functions for their area of ownership. Identifies best practices for strategy execution, leverages information, advocating for business cases, and may present cases to leader. Researches and proposes options to the leadership team.
• Uses understanding of the organization's strategy and deliverables for the upcoming year(s) to design budgets. Uses short and/or long-term forecasting plans built in collaboration with the leadership team. Contributes to identification of actions that can course-correct and drive performance improvement.
• Manage complex budgets with significant negotiation. Works with other teams to coordinate future resources. Collaborates with leaders regarding resource management planning.
• Partner with Leadership Team (LT)to build and drive business strategy through semester planning, Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), pillar reviews, fundamentals, and other initiatives
• Understand the end-to-end business, manage priorities, and provide actionable business insights to enable effective decision-making
• Drive continuous improvement in business process and tools to enable the rapid growth and scale
• Drive key initiatives for employee and manager trainings in alignment with Microsoft requirements, culture, and values.
• Lead special, cross-functional, strategic projects and drive measurable results to deliver business impact for LT or the Executive Office.

Maximizing/ Extending the Leader

• Leverages or continues to build broader networks to foster relationships that support execution across the business. Manages and cultivates relationships with leaders and peers of internal teams.
• 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 regarding communications, budgets, people, and the team pulse. Informs tactical and strategic business decisions for leader. Supports the landing of organizational changes (e.g. employee data management, skilling plans, landing quota).

Organizational Health

• Monitors team/organization health and supports the leader in