Business Manager, Global Talent Acquisition Americas

Microsoft is on a mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their utmost each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. You can help us achieve our mission.

The TARI (Talent Acquisition, Total Rewards and Insights) team enables all employees to do their most impactful work and to ensure Microsoft remains an incredible place to work.  This team is responsible for global talent acquisition, global and executive compensation programs, global benefits and mobility, and performance & development.  This team works in a very matrixed way, collaborating with other centers of excellence and business partners within and outside of HR. 

We are looking for a highly motivated and collaborative individual to fill the role of Business Manager, Global Talent Acquisition Americas supporting the Global Talent Acquisition Americas (GTAA) Leader. The GTAA team is responsible for delivering scalable, inclusive, and high-impact talent acquisition services across Microsoft’s Americas region (US, Canada, LATAM) for industry level Engineering and Go-to-Market roles. They drive strategic hiring initiatives, partner with business leaders to align recruiting operations with organizational goals and manage complex delivery programs.

The right candidate will have knowledge and experience in most of the following: global talent acquisition, rhythm of business (ROB) management, HR, project management, execution, communication, budget management, administration and collaboration.  Success in this role means that you are able to think strategically at a global level and effectively develop key processes that facilitate business planning, execution, and accountability. This position requires extensive cross-group coordination and effective influencing at all levels, and the ability to manage high volume, high impact work on short deadlines. This role helps drive organization strategy and successful implementation of initiatives enabling effective leaders and high performing teams. 

Responsibilities

Drive and execute rhythm of business activities

• Drives business direction and ensures leadership team alignment with corporate planning and broader organizational integration. Drives the architecting, developing, and executing the rhythm of business (ROB) for the GTA Americas leadership team. Works with leaders to drive outcomes. Provides direction for identifying and determining objectives to execute which are in alignment with the goals of the organization. Drives business review cadence. Ensures adherence to privacy and compliance. Supports the development of content for leader-level communication with a variety of internal audiences.

Business operations project management

• Leverages knowledge of the leader's goals and business approach to ensure business activities are aligned with the leader's objectives. Supports the leader(s) in key business management areas (e.g., setting key goals, priorities, and definitions; team culture and health; communications; budget/finance; industry/specific business knowledge). Synthesizes information into insights that inform business decisions, leveraging expertise to influence the leader and leadership team. Leverages people management/influence expertise to assist leader with people management as needed. Supports organizational changes (e.g., employee data management, skilling plans, landing quota). Partners closely with the GTA Americas Delivery Operations team.

Budget and financial management

• Leverages knowledge of organizational strategy and planned deliverables for the upcoming year(s) to design program budgets. Develops forecasting plans in partnership with the leadership team and GTA Director of Business Management. Supports the development of metrics for budgeting and forecasting. Identifies actions that can be taken to course-correct and drive performance improvement; anticipates business challenges based on forecasts. Collaborate with leaders regarding resource management strategy and planning.

Organizational Health

• Monitors team/organization health and supports the leader in responding to team culture issues, as well as leading culture initiatives (e.g., Diversity and Inclusion [D&I], hiring, onboarding) while partnering with Human Resources to do so. Tracks the use of role-based compliance training and new training. Ensures a healthy compliance scorecard for the team/organization. Capitalizes