Director of Strategic Planning, Commercial Marketing

Come join the commercial Cloud Marketing team at Microsoft to lead our new strategic planning function across our key businesses, including Azure, Microsoft 365 and Dynamics 365. Part of the Global Demand Center, this role will be developing and facilitating our annual and quarterly planning rhythms to align across all of our marketing organizations including product marketing, Go-to-Market (GTM), and integrated marketing.

We are looking for a Director of Strategic Planning, Commercial Marketing who enjoys organizing and creating structure, who has a proven track record of developing processes, systems, and structures that allow others to be successful. You will lead a process of ideation and innovation to advance our planning process and how we represent business impact aligned to our planning priorities. You will manage and maintain senior level executive relationships across marketing and sales roles to drive unity and alignment during the planning process. About the Global Demand Center (GDC) The GDC is a large-scale customer acquisition and global lifecycle engine. We strive for high business impact and continual process improvements and global impact through digital marketing, automation and AI. Our mission aligns with Microsoft’s goal of empowering every person and organization to achieve more. Join us in creating a culture of inclusion, innovation, and collaboration where everyone can thrive!

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

• Lead a cross-business team to develop a framework for commercial planning and performance reviews.
• You will work across a complex set of stakeholders in other organizations to collectively design a planning process and Rhythm of Business (ROB) that meets the needs of the business. From the details of templates and workbacks, to the strategy of executive landing and investments, you will need to be able to operate at multiple levels across various projects.
• Develop executive commercial marketing performance reviews. Working across stakeholders from many parts of the business, you will drive alignment across key metrics, provide coaching to ensure executive storytelling with actionable insights, and seek out cross business learnings.
• Produce regular, clear executive communications. Ensuring a broad set of stakeholders are informed around planning, milestones, and performance impact will be critical for success.
• Create and deliver business requirements for new tools and tech to the forefront of our planning process, including the use of generative AI for advancing planning.
• Model and coach growth mindset and inclusivity to influence a high performing team, with great culture. While this is an individual contributor role, we are looking for team culture leader.
• A learn-it all leader will be curious, adaptable and coachable to adjust to the changing needs of our business and ensure our teammates are encouraged, feel valued, and growing personally and professionally.

Other

• Embody our culture and values 

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Operations, Finance or related field AND 8+ years work experience in program management, process management, process improvement
  • OR equivalent experience
• 8+ years of experience leading B2B Marketing, Go-To-Market (GTM) and/or Sales planning process.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's