Senior Business Manager

Azure Hardware Systems & Infrastructure (AHSI) executive office is seeking a Senior Business Manager. In this role, you’ll collaborate across AHSI teams to manage AHSI’s system of accountability and drive the scaling of business operations, supporting Azure’s growth.

Microsoft’s mission to empower every person and organization on the planet depends on innovation in connecting people, services, and devices around the world.  Microsoft Teams, Xbox Cloud Gaming, Azure Compute, and other Microsoft products are built atop hardware and datacenter advancements developed by Microsoft’s Azure Hardware Systems & Infrastructure (AHSI) organization.  AHSI designs, builds and delivers the core hardware and systems powering these products and leads fundamental evolution in our hardware systems and infrastructure.

In this role, you’ll collaborate across AHSI teams to manage AHSI’s system of accountability and drive the scaling of business operations, supporting Azure’s growth. You’ll lead the planning and execution of organizational OKRs, ensuring alignment and action to achieve target results. Additionally, you will oversee financial and HC management across a diverse investment portfolio, developing processes and ROBs to streamline operations.

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

• Strategic alignment and system of accountability: Drives accountability by leading the planning and execution of AHSI level OKRs. Ensure AHSI level OKRs are aligned to AHSI strategic priorities. Review performance and execution progress, engaging stakeholders to achieve results. Creates clarity in ambiguous situations to facilitate and drive prioritization and decision making across AHSI.
• Performance insights and risk management: collect and evaluate key results status, monitor progress and identify program risks and mitigation plans. Identifies actions that can be taken to course-correct and drive results. Synthesizes information into actionable insights that inform business decisions and influence the leadership team.
• Rhythm of Business (ROB): Leads the OKR ROB during planning and execution to ensure effective communication and response cadence among participants and stakeholders. Facilitate cross-team collaboration to ensure all key deliverables and ownership are fully aligned to support AHSI business and program objectives.
• Financial planning and forecasting: Leverages knowledge of organizational strategy and investment priority to design and develop budget and forecast plan across complex portfolio. Partners with leadership to develop forecasting plans and align on headcount and budget strategies. Collaborates with Finance to approve budgets and develops metrics for budgeting and forecasting. Anticipates business challenges based on forecasts and coordinates future resource needs with the Procurement team.
• Project management: Drives cross-team projects to meet the changing business environment and manages complex business needs. Engages in project management or may act as a project/program manager to ensure organization-wide implementation of strategic efforts that require hands-on coordination across multiple functional disciplines and business organizations.

Embody our Culture  &  Values

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in relevant field (e.g., Liberal Arts, Business Administration, Management, Computer Science) AND 4+ years experience in financial management, business planning, operations management, strategy, project management, human resources, or business-related roles
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 3+ years of experience in business planning, operations management, financial management, strategy, project management, or business-related roles Or equivalent experience.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications