Business Manager in Redmond, Washington

Security represents the most critical priorities for our customers in a world awash in digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity. Microsoft Security aspires to make the world a safer place for all. We want to reshape security and empower every user, customer, and developer with a security cloud that protects them with end to end, simplified solutions. The Microsoft Security organization accelerates Microsoft’s mission and bold ambitions to ensure that our company and industry is securing digital technology platforms, devices, and clouds in our customers’ heterogeneous environments, as well as ensuring the security of our own internal estate. 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. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world.

We are looking for a Business Manager to run CISO Operations within Microsoft Security.

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.

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

• You will drive business direction for the leadership team, as well as develop and carry out the rhythm of business (ROB). You’ll also execute business plans to ensure continuous operations in both normal and adverse conditions.

• You will collaborate with stakeholders and teams to oversee the creation and implementation of strategy execution plans, while ensuring alignment across groups. You will also leverage organizational strategy knowledge to design upcoming budgets.

• You will provide leadership support by ensuring business activities are aligned with their goals. This will involve leveraging key partnerships to drive leadership agenda and give strategic advice, and supporting one or more key business management areas.

• You will monitor organizational health, respond to team culture issues, and lead cultural initiatives. This will involve planning and executing trainings, ensuring a healthy compliance scorecard, and identifying team strengths and development areas.

• You will drive cross-team projects as needed to meet changing business requirements and manage complex business needs. You also may act as a project manager to ensure organization-wide implementation of strategic efforts.

• Other

• Embody ourCulture (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/about/corporate-values) andValues (https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/culture)

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in relevant field (e.g., Liberal Arts, Business Administration, Management, Computer Science) AND 6+ years of experience in financial management, business planning, operations management, strategy, project management, human resources, or business-related roles

• OR equivalent experience.

• Proven track record of designing and delivering impactful and engaging programs and initiatives that educate, inform, and influence the global customer community on security matters.

Other Requirements

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.

Additional Qualifications

• Master’s Degree in relevant field (e.g., Liberal Arts, Business Administration, Management, Computer Science) AND 5+ years of experience in financial management, business planning, operations management, strategy, project management, human resources, or business-related roles OR Bachelor’s Degree in relevant field (e.g., Liberal Arts, Business Administration, Management, Computer Science) AND 8+ years of experience in financial management, business planning, operations management, strategy, project management, human resources, or business-related roles OR equivalent experience.

• Communication and presentation skills, with the ability to articulate complex and technical concepts in a clear and compelling way to diverse audiences.

• Relationship-building and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to establish trust and credibility with leaders, customers, partners, regulators, and industry peers.

• Demonstrated ability to align cross functionally across various stakeholders and drive agreement.

• Has been in a Business Manager role in the past.

Business Management IC5 – The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $115,000 – $200,300 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 $146,200 – $219,200 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until August 22, 2024.

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