New 
Sr. Business Program Manager
 Microsoft | |
relocation assistance
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 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Dec 28, 2024 | |
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OverviewAre you ready to bring your Program Management skills to an industry leader to make make a an impact, while growing your PM skill set? Microsoft Cloud Operations and Innovation team (CO+I) is the team behind the Microsoft's Cloud infrastructure and responsible for innovating, planning, designing, building and operating one of the largest datacenter fleets in the world. We support product teams by providing the secure and compliant, cost efficient and highly available global infrastructure that Microsoft's customers depend on. Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency and a trusted experience to customers and partners worldwide. To keep up with rapidly changing customer and business demands, CO+I is looking for an experienced Sr. Business Program Manager who can lead complex engagements across key datacenter suppliers, collaborating across business and engineering stakeholders to drive strategic partnership development. The successful candidate will be able to work independently, with little or no supervision, who thrives in ambiguity, with attention to detail, has an ability to work in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment to drive 360-partnership engagements. You will lead multiple large-scale engagements to improve mutual partnerships with suppliers, balancing technical leadership and business judgement. In this role, you'll apply an analytical mindset and take a key role in driving strategies and workstreams to deliver stronger outcomes for both Microsoft, our suppliers, and customers. You'll balance multiple internal and external stakeholders, driving your vision into holistic plans and execution across teams. This role requires a keen sense for stakeholder management, strategic thinking, detailed project management and business acumen. This role is based in the Seattle / Redmond area. Relocation assistance is not offered for this role. 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.
ResponsibilitiesWork with team leaders on key programs and strategic initiatives to develop clarity on engagement scope and deliverables. Establish a results-oriented, metrics-driven programmatic approach to deliver strategic initiatives.Act as a subject matter expert, driving assessments in collaboration with other teams, conducting competitive analyses, and examining customer and technology-related industry trends, as well as industry-specific requirements/regulations and opportunities.Define best practices for business cases that drive long-term, integrated, cross-business solutions and roadmaps that improve business performance and mitigate risk, while driving innovation and collaboration with key suppliers to enable growth and scale.Determine and lead large scale process improvements to quickly scope insights. Ensure alignment between the customer, the market, internal stakeholders, senior leadership, and the goals and strategy of Microsoft.Drive simplification and automation to evolve processes, services, and solutions, to increase agility and efficiencies and lower costs.Lead the tracking, coordination, and communication of end-to-end project schedules and plans. Establish and monitor processes, while driving accountability with stakeholders to follow the established schedule and processes. | |