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Business Manager

Microsoft· Business Management
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Redmond, WA$97.6k - $188.4kFull-timePosted 4d ago

About the role

The Business Manager is a key member of the Sales Design & Incentives (SDI) Business Excellence team, responsible for translating organizational strategy into disciplined execution, partnering across leadership and functional teams to strengthen operations, and driving AI-enabled business transformation and governance across the organization.

Responsibilities

  • Drive core business management processes and operating rhythms that enable effective planning, execution, and accountability.
  • Translate leadership priorities into structured plans, milestones, actions, and measurable outcomes.
  • Identify operational gaps, dependencies, and opportunities to simplify or improve how the organization operates.
  • Establish scalable processes, governance mechanisms, and business practices that increase organizational effectiveness.
  • Maintain visibility to key priorities, decisions, risks, and follow-through across the organization.
  • Support annual and ongoing business planning, priority setting, and organizational goal alignment.
  • Synthesize business, operational, and organizational data into clear insights and recommendations for leadership.
  • Develop executive-ready business reviews, decision materials, dashboards, and leadership briefings.
  • Connect signals across workstreams to surface risks, opportunities, and areas requiring leadership attention.
  • Help design and manage leadership operating mechanisms, including business reviews, leadership meetings, planning sessions, and organizational checkpoints.
  • Ensure leadership forums are decision-oriented with clear objectives, pre-reads, actions, owners, and follow-through.
  • Partner with leaders to maintain alignment across organizational priorities and dependencies.
  • Develop and operationalize governance frameworks that clarify decision rights, ownership, escalation paths, and accountability.
  • Deliver clear, consistent organizational communications aligned to leadership priorities.
  • Support organizational changes and strategic initiatives through structured stakeholder engagement and change management.
  • Simplify complex business topics into concise, actionable communications for leadership and broader audiences.
  • Identify opportunities to apply AI, automation, and digital tools to improve business processes, insights, and employee experiences.
  • Modernize recurring business management activities by reducing manual work and improving access to actionable intelligence.
  • Partner with functional and technical stakeholders to translate business needs into practical AI-enabled solutions.
  • Champion responsible adoption of AI and new ways of working within the organization.
  • Build trusted relationships across SDI and key partner organizations, including Finance, HR, Operations, and other business functions.
  • Drive cross-functional initiatives by establishing clarity of scope, ownership, dependencies, and desired outcomes.
  • Influence without direct authority and align stakeholders around shared priorities.
  • Represent Business Excellence in broader organizational initiatives as needed.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in relevant field (e.g., Liberal Arts, Business Administration, Management, Computer Science) AND 4+ years experience in financial management, business planning, operations management, strategy, project management, human resources, or business-related roles OR equivalent experience.

Skills

Required:Strategic planningData synthesis and insightsExecutive communication
Nice to have:Change managementAI/Automation awareness
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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