Microsoft

Consulting Project Manager - Oil, Gas, & Energy

Microsoft • $124K — $214K *
Houston, TX 77084In-Person
Energy & Utilities
5 - 7 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in related field and 5+ years of project management experience, or equivalent experience.
  • Preferred: 12+ years of project management experience or equivalent.
  • PgMP or PMP certification is advantageous.
  • 8+ years of financial management experience (profit and loss).
  • 6+ years of leadership experience in a matrixed environment.
  • Experience within the Oil and Gas Industry is essential.
  • Demonstrates executive presence to communicate with C-level executives.

Responsibilities

  • Envision, develop, and deliver transformative solutions based on deep customer understanding.
  • Collaborate with clients to identify pain points and strategize digital transformation plans.
  • Provide executive leadership for quality solution delivery in strategic accounts.
  • Drive measurable success using industry benchmarks and delivering on financial commitments.
  • Establish self as a trusted advisor and drive innovation through thought-leadership.

Benefits

  • Remote work arrangements with no in-office days required.
  • Opportunity for travel to customer sites (25-50%).
  • Potential for involvement in high-impact projects across various domains and geographies.
Full Job Description
Overview

We are seeking a Consulting Project Manager - Oil, Gas, & Energy within ISD, to join our team in a role that drives customer satisfaction and represents Microsoft at the highest levels. This position plays a critical part in analyzing customer feedback and advocating as the voice of the customer, working closely with senior and executive stakeholders to ensure delivery and resolution of complex delivery. You will lead the initiation and execution of complex multi-track programs for top-tier Oil, Gas and Energy customers by securing and coordinating delivery resources, managing detailed work breakdown structures, and driving alignment with customer plans and influencing long term strategies. This role also includes overseeing partner contracting processes, contributing to resource selection and onboarding, shaping growth opportunity and guiding the development of comprehensive program plans. You will manage key project metrics, risks, and financials while ensuring the timely and high-quality delivery of some of Microsoft's most impactful projects. Additionally, you'll have the opportunity to contribute across domains and geographies, sharing knowledge and influencing industry practices.

The role offers remote work arrangements with 0 days per week in-office and requires 25-50% travel to customer sites.

Responsibilities
  • You will envision, develop and deliver transformative opportunities with the client by establishing a deep understanding of customer and business needs based on the future direction of the industry and effectively draws on internal assets (e.g., account team, business lines, collateral) to help to bring the best original and most relevant ideas to the customer.
  • You will work with the client to build an understanding of pain points and create a plan to resolve them by implementing digital transformations and identify possible hurdles/barriers to obtaining objectives and provide insights on how to avoid them.
  • You will provide executive leadership and oversight to execute a plan that delivers quality solutions for the largest strategic accounts. Identifies and implements the correct governance/delivery operating model and utilizes appropriate metrics for tracking customer satisfaction and puts feedback mechanisms in place in order to track solution success. Monitors solution roll-out, making adjustments/escalates when necessary and drives systemic improvements based on feedback mechanisms.
  • You will use industry benchmarks and tangible results desired to measure success as you drive value for customer through solution delivery while driving incremental cloud consumption and track key outcomes that drive cloud consumption and drive opportunity identification and delivers on the financial commitments of the Operation Model (Consumption Revenue, Industry Solutions Delivery (ISD) Direct Azure Impact, Delivery Value, Industry Solutions (IS) Billed Revenue), partnering with Area Consulting Leaders to establish controls to meet profit and loss (P&L) accountabilities.
  • You will drive innovation through thought-leadership in customer industries (e.g., retail). Establishes self as a trusted advisor to executive decision makers and identify and invests in relationships with executive decision makers. Understands and articulates innovations and trends from an industry perspective.

Other
  • Embody our culture and values.


Qualifications

Required/minimum qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in related field AND 5+ years experience in project management
    • OR equivalent experience.


Additional or preferred qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in related field AND 12+ years experience in project management
    • OR equivalent experience.
  • Program Management Professional (PgMP or PMP) certification.
  • 8+ years financial management experience (e.g. profit and loss)
  • 6+ years leadership experience in a matrixed environment
  • Demonstrated experience in the Oil and Gas Industry
  • Possesses executive presence and ability to communicate strategic value to C-level audiences.
  • Agile certification, Scrum Master, Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP), or Professional Scrum Master One (PSM1) certification.
  • Experience with industry specific technologies (e.g. ADME)
  • Experience working in large-scale ISV, platform-centric or hyperscaler technology environments.
  • Experience in creating and managing intellectual property (IP).
  • Experience in creating publications.


Consulting Project Management IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $124,500 - $214,600 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 $154,500 - $231,700 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

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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Microsoft is an American multinational corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services. Microsoft’s devices and consumer (D&C) licensing segment licenses the Windows operating system and related software, Microsoft Office for consumers, and the Windows Phone operating system. The company’s computing and gaming hardware segment provides Xbox gaming and entertainment consoles and accessories, second-party and third-party video games, and Xbox Live subscriptions; surface devices and accessories; and Microsoft PC accessories. Its phone hardware segment offers Lumia smartphones and other non-Lumia phones. Its D&C segment provides Windows Store, Xbox Live transactions, and Windows phone store; search advertising; display advertising; Office 365 Home and Office 365 Personal; first-party video games; and other consumer products and services as well as operating retail stores. Microsoft’s commercial licensing segments license server products, including Windows Server, Microsoft SQL Server, Visual Studio, System Center, and related Client Access Licenses (CALs); Windows Embedded; Windows operating system; Microsoft Office for business, including Office, Exchange, SharePoint, Lync, and related CALs; Microsoft Dynamics business solutions; and Skype. Its commercial segment offers enterprise services, including premier support services and Microsoft consulting services; commercial cloud comprising Office 365 Commercial, other Microsoft Office online offerings, Dynamics CRM Online, and Microsoft Azure; and other commercial products and online services. The company markets and distributes its products through original equipment manufacturers, distributors, and resellers, as well as online.

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Size
181,000 employees
Market Cap
$1,762.4 billion
Industry
Enterprise Technology
Net Income
$51.3 billion
Founded
1975
5 Year Trend
+15.5%
Revenue
$153.2 billion
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