Microsoft

Sr Program Manager, Business Transformation & Intelligence

Microsoft$106K — $203K *
Business Services
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in relevant field with 5+ years' experience in Program Management or equivalent experience.
  • Master's Degree in relevant field preferred, with 5+ years' experience in similar roles or 8+ years in related experience with a Bachelor's Degree.
  • Experience in building and maintaining business architecture and operational process maps.
  • Proficiency in defining KPIs, adoption measures, and value realization frameworks.
  • Strong communication and analytical skills, capable of translating complex data into actionable insights.

Responsibilities

  • Create and maintain an integrated view of OCE's operational architecture.
  • Identify and recommend high-value transformation opportunities by analyzing performance metrics.
  • Establish and maintain OCE's transformation measurement framework.
  • Connect and maintain visibility into related transformation efforts across OCE.
  • Provide executive-ready insights and recommendations for investment decisions.
  • Assess future-state impacts of AI and process changes on organizational readiness.
  • Embody the company's culture and values.

Benefits

  • Access to comprehensive health and wellness programs.
  • Opportunities for professional development and career advancement.
  • Flexible work arrangements to support work-life balance.
Full Job Description
Overview

We are seeking an experienced and highly collaborative Senior Program Manager, Business Transformation & Intelligence to establish and maintain OCE's transformation intelligence capability. This role will create integrated operational views, analysis, measurement frameworks, and decision-support artifacts needed to identify opportunities, understand cross-functional dependencies, make informed investments, and accelerate progress against OCE priorities. The successful candidate will maintain a living view of how OCE operates across people, processes, tools, suppliers, AI capabilities, data, and business functions. They will identify and size opportunities, document dependencies, evaluate adoption and realized value, and provide clear recommendations that inform leadership-led planning, prioritization, investment, and operational decisions. Success in this role requires systems thinking, business acumen, analytical rigor, executive communication, and the ability to influence across organizational boundaries without direct authority. The chosen candidate can translate operational complexity into clarity, helping leadership and teams understand what is changing across OCE and Consumer eCommerce, how those changes connect, and whether investments are producing the intended business outcomes.

Responsibilities
  • Create and maintain an integrated view of OCE's operational architecture, including business capabilities, ownership, tooling and platform ecosystems, AI investments, suppliers and cross-functional dependencies.
  • Identify, assess, and recommend high-value transformation opportunities by analyzing operational performance, adoption trends, tooling gaps, supplier dependencies, organizational friction, and business impact.
  • Establish and maintain OCE's transformation measurement framework, including baselines, success measures, adoption metrics, value realization approaches, and the OCE Transformation Scorecard.
  • Connect related transformation efforts across OCE, maintaining visibility into dependencies, overlaps, risks, ownership gaps, and opportunities to increase the overall value of investments.
  • Provide executive-ready insights, assessments, and recommendations that support leadership-led planning, prioritization, investment decisions, and operational reviews.
  • Assess future-state impacts of AI, automation, self-service, platform modernization, and process change, helping leaders understand implications for capabilities, roles, skills, ways of working, and organizational readiness.
  • Embody our culture and values.


Qualifications

Required/minimum qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Business, Operations, Engineering, Marketing, Finance, Information Systems, Organizational Development, or related field AND 5+ years of experience in Program Management, Business Transformation, Business Architecture, Business Operations, Management Consulting, Strategy and Operations, or related experience OR Equivalent experience.

Additional or preferred qualifications
  • Master's Degree in Business Administration, Operations, Engineering, Organizational Development, Information Systems, or related field AND 5+ years of experience in Program Management, Business Transformation, Business Architecture, Business Operations, Management Consulting, Strategy and Operations, or related experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Business, Operations, Engineering, Marketing, Finance, Information Systems, Organizational Development, or related field AND 8+ years of experience in Program Management, Business Transformation, Business Architecture, Business Operations, Management Consulting, Strategy and Operations, or related experience OR Equivalent experience.
  • Preferred Experience Building and maintaining business architecture, capability models, operational process maps, or integrated views of complex organizations. Identifying and evaluating business transformation opportunities through data analysis, operational assessments, and stakeholder insights.
  • Defining KPIs, adoption measures, business outcome metrics, and value realization frameworks. Developing dependency analyses, impact assessments, and visibility across cross-functional initiatives. Creating executive-ready insights, recommendations, and decision-support artifacts for senior leaders.
  • Strong communication, influence, facilitation, and analytical skills with the ability to translate complex operational information into actionable insights.


Marketing Technology 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.

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