Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Microsoft is a technology company whose Global Strategy & Operations team turns commercial strategy into execution. The Senior Manager, Strategic Operations leads critical business rhythms, executive operating models, cross-organization alignment, and strategic execution across the Core organization.
Responsibilities
- Shape and evolve the Core organization's executive operating model, keeping leadership focus aligned to the highest-impact business priorities
- Drive governance that translates strategic objectives into measurable execution and clear accountability across the organization
- Partner with senior leaders to surface emerging opportunities, business risks, and cross-organizational dependencies early through the operating cadence
- Establish scalable frameworks that strengthen transparency, decision-making, and cross-functional alignment across business priorities
- Convert executive discussions into outcomes by driving clarity on ownership, commitments, and organizational follow-through
- Serve as a strategic interface between Core Strategy & Operations and regional SE&O leadership, keeping priorities, initiatives, and business objectives aligned globally
- Build mechanisms for continuous feedback between corporate and regional stakeholders to improve execution quality and responsiveness
- Drive consistency across strategy, planning, and execution teams in priorities, messaging, and delivery against objectives
- Foster collaboration that accelerates adoption of key initiatives and strengthens organizational effectiveness
- Identify where cadence, tooling, or process can be simplified or automated to reduce overhead and raise the quality of decisions
- Set and share the standards, tools, and mechanisms that make the organization's business rhythms repeatable and scalable
- Role-model early adoption of new capabilities, including AI, to raise the bar on how strategic operations are run
Skills
- * Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Marketing, Finance, Engineering, or related field AND 4+ years experience in business consulting, sales, sales operations, information technology (IT), account management, business development, marketing, IT field sales, or a related field + OR equivalent experience
- * 3+ years experience in in Near Term Strategy (1-2 years out), Management Consulting, or Finance
- * Bachelor's Degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Computer Science, or related field AND 6+ years of marketing, strategy, sales, program management, project management, business planning, consulting, finance, economics, and/or partner organization experience + OR equivalent experience
Benefits
- Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
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