Dcd Amers Business Manager

Overview

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 best each day. Microsoft Cloud Operations and Innovation (CO+I) is on a mission to power the world's workloads across the cloud. The Data Center Delivery (DCD) AMERs team, part of CO+I, team is hiring a Business Manager to be a key member of our data center build program in the region. The Business Manager will report into DCD AMERs team and work with other teams under the CO+I org to support DCD AMERS leadership for all areas related to business excellence and the ongoing needs of our evolving organization. This includes supporting rhythm of the business activities, budget management for a large construction organization, and providing analysis and reporting to influence leadership decision making.

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 partner with other business managers, engineering, finance, and procurement 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. Come join this exciting team!

In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

Responsibilities

Business Operations

• 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 L5 commissioning or Integrated Systems Test (IST) 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. Communicates business continuity plans with Microsoft corporate Crisis Management, Business Continuity teams, and with partners.
• 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.
• Tracks and reports on key performance indicators (KPIs); may define measurement plans.
• 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.
• May manage complex budgets with significant negotiation.
• Works with other teams to coordinate future resources. Collaborates with leaders regarding resource management planning.

Maximizing/ Extending the Leader

• Leverages or continues to build broader networks to foster strong 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 responding to team culture issues, as well as promoting culture initiatives (e.g., Diversity and Inclusion [D&I], hiring, onboarding) while partnering with Human Resources to do so. In partnership with Human Resources, tracks Microsoft Poll responses and assist with a response. Tracks the use of role-based compliance training and new training; drives the training completion rates. Plans and executions training. Ensures a healthy compliance scorecard for the team/organization.

Special Projects/Programs and Initiatives

• Contributes to cross-team projects as needed to meet the changing business environment and manage business needs. Engages in well-defined projects/programs while executing aspects of projects/programs for larger areas, including work on strategic efforts that require hands-on experience which may be across multiple disciplines.

Specialty Responsibilities

• Supports the development of content for internal communication. Partners and leads communications team to land internal and/or external content. Communicates relevant information to the organization as required.
• Leverages manager input to create foundational and storytelling content to articulate strategies, results and goals for internal and external forums (e.g., external or customer meetings, executive meetings, event presentations). Synthesizes findings within workstream and identifies links to broader strategic efforts for content and external facing thought leadership. Leverages understanding of audience needs to ensure content is tailored to audience preferences and break down complex information into actionable steps for audience. Carries out related reporting and exception management as required.
• Helps drives accountability for the team and organization in executing core business activities. Uses understanding of priorities based on scorecards and communicates in a simple way. Aligns priorities with key performance indicators (KPIs) and performance metrics. Creates clarity in ambiguous situations to facilitate and drive prioritization and decision making for leaders across the organization. May use qualitative data for tracking performance.

Other

• Embody our culture and values

Capabilities:

• Be a positive team member, demonstrating the best in partnership.
• Influence, inform and partner with multiple teams regarding business operations.
• Adjust priorities, decisions, and actions to respond to multiple demands, unanticipated events, and new information daily.
• Apply your knowledge of business operations to improve team organization and functions.
• Demonstrate strong organizational skills through your experience institutionalizing them across a team through process or system changes.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in relevant field (Business Administration, Management, Finance, Engineering)
• 4+ year(s) experience in financial management, business planning, operations management, strategy, project management, or business-related roles.
• Understands Data Center Construction.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Self-starter with ability to story-tell business and financial analytics and build reports for audiences spanning multiple disciplines & seniority levels, including senior executives.
• Excellent cross-team collaboration, with proven ability to work across organizations and reporting boundaries to get things done.
• Ability to excel in an ambiguous environment and effectively triage several competing priorities.
• Strong Excel and MS Office applications skills.
• Excellent written and oral communication.

The ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:

• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

These requirements include, but are not limited to, the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

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Business Management IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $112,200 - $194,800 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $142,200 - $213,200 per year.

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