Microsoft

Principal Business Strategy Manager

Microsoft • $130K — $251K *
Redmond, WA 98052In-Person
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • Master's Degree in Business Administration or related field with 4+ years of relevant experience, or Bachelor's Degree with 6+ years of experience, or equivalent.
  • Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements.
  • Preferred: Master's Degree in Business Administration, Engineering, or related field with 8+ years of experience, or Bachelor's Degree in Engineering with 12+ years of experience.
  • 4+ years experience in high-tech supply chain or semiconductor industry is advantageous.

Responsibilities

  • Establish and cultivate relationships with internal teams and senior leadership to guide strategic business decisions.
  • Communicate insights and advocate for recommendations through written reports and presentations to senior executives.
  • Engage with industry figures to represent Microsoft's perspective in executive meetings and external communications.
  • Analyze market trends, competitors, and business models to inform strategic initiatives and decision-making.
  • Develop understanding of Microsoft's product portfolio and strategic priorities, evaluating potential acquisition and partnership opportunities.
  • Synthesize findings into actionable business insights and develop frameworks for problem-solving and strategic direction.
  • Lead strategy projects, managing goals and deliverables while addressing and overcoming potential roadblocks.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health benefits including medical, dental, and vision coverage.
  • Generous paid time off and holidays.
  • Retirement savings program with company match.
  • Professional development opportunities and career mentorship.
  • Flexible work arrangements to support work-life balance.
Full Job Description
Responsibilities

Business Partner Relationships
  • Establishes and maintains key points of contact with internal teams (e.g., Finance, Marketing, Engineering); manages and cultivates relationships with leaders of internal teams. Builds relationships with senior executives (e.g., Directors, GM-level, CVP). Acts as an advisor to senior leadership on a particular area of expertise, leveraging breadth of deep technical/product knowledge, organizational context, and market awareness to guide less experienced colleagues and inform strategic business decisions. Provides career mentorship to less experienced colleagues outside of Strategy function. Identifies compelling projects and positions the team to carry them out.

Communication
  • Communicates and advocates insights to senior business leaders (e.g., Senior Directors, GM-level, CVP) and conveys viewpoints through written documents (e.g., memos, reports) and influence models (e.g., meetings, presentations) through moderate iterations of feedback and vetting; builds end-to-end storylines and creates outlines across multiples projects for less experienced colleagues to leverage. Delivers project findings recommendations, and implications to senior executives to facilitate senior discussions and decision making.

External Engagement
  • Provides support for executive meetings. Engages with industry figures (e.g., equity analyst, partners, acquisition targets) to share Microsoft's perspective as appropriate.
  • Supports delivery of external communications on behalf of the Strategy function. Supports external meetings by explaining research and analysis and answering targeted questions.

Market Perspective
  • Develops and maintains an understanding of customers, competitors, partners, business models, market sizing, and industry trends; develops and maintains an understanding of the merger and acquisition (M&A), venture funding and public market environment and trends; leads market landscape analyses and reviews of companies of potential interest; provides guidance to business partners to inform decision-making.

Microsoft Portfolio Strategy and Prioritization
  • Develops an understanding of Microsoft's product portfolio, strategic priorities, competitive position, gaps, and potential opportunities; drives evaluation of Microsoft strategic alternatives (e.g., buy, build, partner) and acquisition alternatives; ensures product roadmap, go-to-market, integration plans, and related issues are considered.

Problem Solving & Insight
  • Synthesizes findings into insights across projects, including implications that inform business decisions, leveraging executive presence to influence decisions and proactively identifying expansive ideas for company strategy, often missed by others; leverages insights to develop recommendations and seeks to provide thought leadership (e.g., trend identification, implications of competitor moves) around potential future growth opportunities and strategic issues for Microsoft. Creates frameworks and methodologies to drive problem solving and insights. responsibility description

Project Leadership
  • Defines and manages Strategy project(s) as a project lead through goals, deliverables, feedback, and timing expectations, providing structure and guidance for others; proactively identifies and address roadblocks. Manages projects independently and/or in collaboration with a Director.

Research, Analysis, & Framing
  • Conducts market-based research by collecting and interpreting information (e.g., financial statements, reports, analyses, stakeholder feedback, expert calls) including researching existing business and identifying new spaces for Microsoft; conducts analyses (e.g., financial modeling) and leverages analyses of others to synthesize information.
  • Creates initial framing for strategic questions with limited input and delivers structured output from analysis


Qualifications

Required Qualifications:
  • Master's Degree in Business Administration or related field AND 4+ years marketing, strategy, business planning, consulting, banking, finance, economics, and/or partner organization experience
    • OR Bachelor's Degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Liberal Arts, Computer Science, or related field AND 6+ years marketing, strategy, business planning, consulting, banking, finance, economics, and/or partner organization experience
    • OR equivalent experience.

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.

Preferred Qualifications:
  • Master's Degree in Business Administration, Engineering, or related field AND 8+ years strategy, business planning, consulting, and/or partner organization experience
    • OR Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, or related field AND 12+ years strategy, business planning, consulting, and/or partner organization experience
    • OR equivalent experience.
  • 4+ years of experience with a background in high-tech supply chain or semiconductor industry.


Business Strategy IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $130,900.00 - $251,900.00 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 $165,600.00 - $272,300.00 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.

About Microsoft

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
NASDAQ
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