Microsoft

Business Administrator

Microsoft$65K — $108K *
Business Services
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in Administrative, Business Support, or customer service roles with a focus on executive support.
  • Bachelor's Degree in relevant field (e.g., Business Administration, HR, Marketing) or equivalent experience.
  • 2+ years of mentoring experience to support colleague development.
  • 3+ years of experience managing administrative budgets for events, travel, and training.
  • Ability to pass Microsoft's Cloud background check upon hire and every two years thereafter.

Responsibilities

  • Manage complex executives' calendars and prioritize time effectively based on preferences.
  • Facilitate cross-functional collaboration and serve as a liaison between executives and teams.
  • Lead the onboarding and development of Business Support colleagues, enhancing team culture.
  • Oversee event coordination and logistics to ensure successful outcomes and stakeholder engagement.
  • Demonstrate leadership by modeling professional behavior and encouraging self-reflection among peers.
  • Handle multiple projects, ensuring delivery on time and maintaining operational excellence.
  • Track and manage hardware/supply budgets and report financials accurately.

Benefits

  • Opportunities for professional growth within a leading tech company.
  • A collaborative work environment encouraging cross-team communication.
  • Involvement in exciting projects within a cutting-edge data analytics team.
  • Access to ongoing training and development resources.
  • Mentorship opportunities to enhance leadership skills.
Full Job Description
Overview

Microsoft's Azure Data engineering team is leading the transformation of analytics in the world of data with products like databases, data integration, big data analytics, messaging & real-time analytics, and business intelligence. The products our portfolio include Microsoft Fabric, Azure SQL DB, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure PostgreSQL, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Service Bus, Azure Event Grid, and Power BI. Our mission is to build the data platform for the age of AI, powering a new class of data-first applications and driving a data culture.

Within Azure Data, the Microsoft Fabric platform team builds and maintains the operating system and provides customers a unified data stack to run an entire data estate. The platform provides a unified experience, unified governance, enables a unified business model and a unified architecture.

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Responsibilities

Calendar Management and Meeting Logistics
Provides strategic calendar management and time planning support for manager(s) (e.g., Corporate Vice President [CVP]). Aligns calendar based on knowledge of manager's preferences and operating styles (e.g., personal needs, allocation to business priorities). Ensures preparation of meeting setting and participant attendance, involving team members in tactical logistic support as appropriate (e.g., booking rooms, troubleshooting audio-video [AV] and technical issues). Gathers, prepares, and provides meeting materials (e.g., agendas, briefings, pre-reads). Uses judgment and knowledge of business context to identify and provide delegates for meeting conflicts as needed, makes decisions around prioritization and keeps manager informed. Collaborates with peers.

Cross-Functional Collaboration and Communication
Continues to build and leverage network across organizations to enable their team and leader's work. Serves as a liaison between executives and teams.

Discipline Growth and Development
Begins to provide leadership within the discipline and participates in the Business Support community. Actively seeks to mentors less experienced Business Support colleagues. Onboards and trains new Business Support staff. Contributes to their organization's culture by participating across the team and division.

Event Coordination and Logistics
Owns the coordination, logistics, and direction for events. Delegates as necessary. Proactively drives actions needed to ensure event outcomes (e.g., developing workback schedule, checkpoints leading up to an event). Acts as a point of contact for events (e.g., changes). Resolves preparatory setbacks and escalates to senior Business Support staff as needed. Collaborates and coordinates with stakeholders.

Leadership
Leads by example and serves as a role model to Business Support colleagues by maintaining a professional attitude, demonstrating executive presence, influencing others, and encouraging self reflection during challenging situations.

Project Ownership
Balances multiple projects end to end with varying deadlines, while maintaining executional and operational excellence within the business and across business groups as applicable. Takes accountability for project outcomes and drives stakeholder accountability through consistent communication.

Resource Management (Hardware/Supply Management, Purchase/Expense Management Financial Management)
Participates in discretionary budget tracking (e.g., morale, hardware, supplies) and reporting (may include software licenses. Partners with Finance to own expense management including documentation.

Rhythm of Business (ROB)
Understands and helps to implement rhythm of business (ROB) in line with recognized patterns, and proactively takes action on business cadence.

Space Management and Planning This responsibility is dependent on location
Maintains and manages up-to-date space-management processes and team spaces (e.g., office locations/desk assignments, private conference rooms, seasonally transitional spaces, remote/location status).

Team Management Support (Headcount Management, Recruitment, Onboarding/Offboarding)
Facilitates team experience activities. Collaborates with Global Talent Acquisition (GTA) to facilitate internal and external recruitment efforts, and partners with hiring managers to ensure a smooth process.

Travel Management
Manages travel arrangements (e.g., accommodations, transportation, security, group codes) for manager(s) and/or group. Creates detailed itineraries/agendas for daily activities by building agenda and setting and managing travel expectations to maximize trip productivity. Executes on logistics of agenda

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications
  • 5+ years Administrative, Business Support, or customer service experience in an environment with an emphasis on scheduling meetings/events, travel management, and administration work for executive/upper level management


Job Requirements: Other & Additional

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 or preferred qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in relevant field (e.g., Business Administration, Human Resources [HR], Marketing, Communications, Psychology, Sociology) OR equivalent experience.
  • 2+ years experience serving as mentor to others.
  • 3+ years experience reviewing and managing administrative budgets (e.g., for events, morale, travel, training)


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Business Support ATR-D - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $31.49 - $51.97 per hour. 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 $42.93 - $59.33 per hour.

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

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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