Sr Business Manager, Office of the COO – Strategic & Special Projects

The COO (Chief Operating Officer) organization enables Microsoft’s commercial business to better serve every person and organization’s transformation and economic success. How? We design, build, and manage the levers that accelerate commercial growth and shorten the cycle between customer signal and delivery. 
 
The Executive Office team supporting the COO plays a pivotal role in this journey and is responsible for maximizing the scale, impact, and voice of the COO and the broader organization. We accomplish this through four pillars: business operations, people & culture, communications, and cross org strategic project & program orchestration. 
 
Do you have a passion for innovating, fast paced execution, and contributing to bigger-picture thinking and strategic execution? As the Sr Business Management, you will take on end-to-end ownership of strategic global programs and special projects, collaborating closely with key stakeholders across the org, the commercial business, and the broader Microsoft ecosystem. You will be embedded into the Exec Office team, reporting to the Chief of Staff, while you learn all the behind-the-scenes of the operating procedures and processes to ensure that the commercial business priorities can be achieved. You will exercise and develop your operational and business management skills and be able to support the business efficiently at any level.  
 
Bringing broad and deep business acumen, sound decision-making and operational excellence to bear is essential in this role. This position also provides tremendous growth opportunity for a candidate looking to broaden their perspective on how an end-to-end business is run. The role can be a strong career accelerator, enabling growth to positions with broader scope and responsibility. 
 
Each day will be different and will require agility, teamwork, and a commitment to operate at the highest levels of integrity, trust, respect, and our learn-it-all culture. This individual will have the capability for program management, organizational skills, change management strategy and methodology, and executive communications. You will need to be self-directed, comfortable with ambiguity, and excellent at communication in a fast-paced environment while driving high quality results.