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Performance Insights & Business Analytics Lead

Microsoft· Sales Strategy Enablement
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Redmond, WA$106.4k - $203.6kFull-timePosted 4d ago

About the role

The Performance Insights & Business Analytics Lead translates market, retail, and business-performance data into clear decisions to accelerate Windows Consumer growth. The role builds a trusted view of performance across collections, price bands, retailers, and doors, moving beyond reporting to identify high-impact interventions and measure their effectiveness.

Responsibilities

  • Insight Engine: Diagnose share wins and losses by Collection, price band, retailer, and door. Connect performance to assortment, availability, placement, promotions, reviews, returns, and competitor actions. Distinguish structural issues from short-term fluctuations and recommend focused interventions.
  • Forecasting & Attribution: Develop forecasts, cause-and-effect hypotheses, and attribution models to assess the impact of promotions, placement, hero-device focus, and Tier quality improvements. Establish baselines, evaluate incrementality, and translate findings into recommendations for investment, portfolio, and execution priorities.
  • Competitive Signal Tracking: Maintain a current competitor and retailer signal deck, with clear triggers for action. Identify emerging shifts in pricing, assortment, promotional intensity, positioning, and consumer sentiment. Partner with Growth & Compete Planning to propose counter-moves and assess their effectiveness.
  • Executive Insight Packs: Deliver weekly and monthly "so what / now what" readouts that explain performance, surface risks and opportunities, and recommend reallocations and pivots. Frame decisions clearly, make trade-offs explicit, and track whether actions deliver the intended outcomes.
  • Dashboard Architecture, Specification & Field Advocacy: Own the business architecture and functional specifications for Windows Consumer performance dashboards, including KPI definitions, data requirements, reporting views, and drill-downs. Partner with BI and data teams on delivery and quality, and champion adoption with the field through practical enablement, feedback loops, and advocacy for a consistent, trusted view of performance.

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 Near Term Strategy (1-2 years out), Management Consulting, or Finance.

Skills

Required:Analytical forecastingData storytelling / executive communicationDashboard design and requirementsPower BI, Excel, SQL
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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