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As a Business Program Manager, you will be working with a variety of stakeholders from across the company to craft, analyze, orchestrate, and improve various programs and processes at the strategic level. Business Program Managers perform non-technical project completion using an internal customer perspective, typically from initiation through delivery, and coordinate cross-functional teams through meetings and progress measurement activity which bring distinct, specific projects to completion both on time and within budget.
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Responsibilities
Assists others in performing program landscape research and analysis (e.g., internal and/or external market, sales, delivery), forecasting, and examining business trends (e.g., customer feedback and expectations) to identify audience size and program scope, stay current, agile, and competitive.
Helps improve operations of existing programs by helping apply industry methodology, define program issues, assess various scenarios, and select the optimal scenario to resolve issues.
With oversight from others, contributes to the direction and strategy from leadership regarding business area of expertise in order to help execute plans that shift current priorities to new organizational initiatives and objectives, and influences others to change behavior accordingly.
Learns to define vision and strategy for change, broad and specific impact, and the flow of communication to the organization.
Learns how to define and track the success criteria and performance metrics (e.g., Objectives and Key Results [OKRs] and Key Performance Indicators [KPIs]), such as quality, adoption, usage, impact, and effectiveness for the program.
Assists others working with cross-functional (e.g., organizational, product, business) stakeholders (e.g., Engineering) to design programs from initiation to delivery.
Qualifications
Required/Minimum Qualifications
Currently pursuing or have completed a Bachelor's Degree in Business, Operations, Finance or related field
OR equivalent experience
Completed the Microsoft Software and Systems Academy (MSSA) or will complete the Microsoft Software and Systems Academy (MSSA) by June 30th
Preferred Qualifications
Formal training in project and process management, financial accounting, business strategy and/or operations.
Displays stakeholder and relationship management across senior leaders, partners and customers.
Ability to understand business metrics, customer and market trends.
Effective verbal and written communication, analytical and presentation skills.
Business Program Management IC2 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $64,800 - $115,600 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 $86,400 - $129,600 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 (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/us-corporate-pay.html)
Microsoft accepts applications and processes offers for these roles on an ongoing basis throughout the academic calendar (September - April)
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