Microsoft

Senior Manager - Strategic Operations

Microsoft$106K — $203K *
Business Services
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Business, Marketing, Finance, Engineering, or related field with 4+ years of relevant experience or equivalent experience.
  • 3+ years of experience in Near Term Strategy, Management Consulting, or Finance.
  • Preferred: Bachelor's Degree in Business, Finance, Economics, or Computer Science with 6+ years in related fields or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

  • Shape and evolve the Core organization's executive operating model aligned to business priorities.
  • Drive governance for measurable execution and accountability across the organization.
  • Partner with senior leaders to identify emerging opportunities and risks early.
  • Establish scalable frameworks to improve transparency, decision-making, and alignment.
  • Convert executive discussions into actionable outcomes with clear ownership.
  • Serve as a strategic interface between corporate strategy and regional leadership.
  • Create feedback mechanisms between corporate and regional stakeholders for enhanced execution.
  • Drive consistency in strategy, planning, and execution across teams.
  • Foster collaboration to accelerate adoption of key initiatives and effectiveness.
  • Identify opportunities for simplifying or automating processes to improve decision quality.

Benefits

  • Career development and growth opportunities.
  • Access to cutting-edge tools and technologies.
  • A collaborative work environment that fosters innovation.
Full Job Description
Responsibilities
Rhythm of Business
  • Shape and evolve the Core organization's executive operating model, keeping leadership focus aligned to the highest-impact business priorities.
  • Drive governance that translates strategic objectives into measurable execution and clear accountability across the organization.
  • Partner with senior leaders to surface emerging opportunities, business risks, and cross-organizational dependencies early through the operating cadence.
  • Establish scalable frameworks that strengthen transparency, decision-making, and cross-functional alignment across business priorities.
  • Convert executive discussions into outcomes by driving clarity on ownership, commitments, and organizational follow-through.
Cross-Organization & Regional Leadership Alignment
  • Serve as a strategic interface between Core Strategy & Operations and regional SE&O leadership, keeping priorities, initiatives, and business objectives aligned globally.
  • Build mechanisms for continuous feedback between corporate and regional stakeholders to improve execution quality and responsiveness.
  • Drive consistency across strategy, planning, and execution teams in priorities, messaging, and delivery against objectives.
  • Foster collaboration that accelerates adoption of key initiatives and strengthens organizational effectiveness.
Operating Model & Continuous Improvement
  • Identify where cadence, tooling, or process can be simplified or automated to reduce overhead and raise the quality of decisions.
  • Set and share the standards, tools, and mechanisms that make the organization's business rhythms repeatable and scalable.
  • Role-model early adoption of new capabilities, including AI, to raise the bar on how strategic operations are run.


Qualifications
Required/minimum qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Marketing, Finance, Engineering, or related field AND 4+ years experience in business consulting, sales, sales operations, information technology (IT), account management, business development, marketing, IT field sales, or a related field
    • OR equivalent experience.
  • 3+ years experience in in Near Term Strategy (1-2 years out), Management Consulting, or Finance.


Additional or preferred qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Computer Science, or related field AND 6+ years of marketing, strategy, sales, program management, project management, business planning, consulting, finance, economics, and/or partner organization experience
    • OR equivalent experience.


Business Strategy IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $106,400 - $203,600 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 $137,600 - $222,600 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

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
Net Income
$51.3 billion
Founded
1975
5 Year Trend
+15.5%
Revenue
$153.2 billion
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