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Senior Business Program Manager

Microsoft· Business Program Management
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Washington, DC$97.6k - $188.4kfull-timePosted 4d ago

About the role

Strategic advisor and operational leader in the US Federal Operating Unit, driving execution of business priorities through disciplined planning, operational rigor, and cross-functional collaboration. Leads workstreams such as headcount management, fiscal year planning, Copilot reporting, and business insights while aligning strategy with execution.

Responsibilities

  • Drives compliance, prioritization, and decision support for leaders by creating clarity in ambiguous situations; partners with leadership to develop and execute planning processes aligned with corporate planning and broader organizational coordination.
  • Ensures alignment on strategic initiatives across functions; communicates plans and creates common understanding of priorities and metrics; identifies and implements practices for strategic execution and coordinates with key stakeholders.
  • Contributes to organizational design to facilitate plan implementation; researches and proposals strategic options; tracks and reports key success indicators to align priorities.
  • Facilitates the team's rhythm of business (ROB) and balances rigor with innovation and agility.
  • Fosters and leverages a broad network to support execution; manages relationships with leaders and stakeholders at scale.
  • Tailors content to audience using understanding of stakeholder needs and political landscape; conducts reporting and exception management as required.
  • Works with organizational leaders to ensure team activities align with strategic objectives; maintains confidentiality and discretion with stakeholders.
  • Evangelizes complex programs to stakeholders, partners, and customers; uses data and metrics (OKRs, KPIs) to demonstrate impact and story-tell value.
  • Defines and executes landing and communication plans; leads ROB during plan execution; ensures program requirements are understood across teams.
  • Collects and evaluates success criteria and performance metrics; uses scorecards and dashboards to monitor programs; derives insights to mitigate risks and optimize programs; plans sunsetting of obsolete programs.
  • Identifies opportunities to develop new programs and improve current ones; defines program strategy, gathers requirements, aligns with stakeholders, estimates resources, creates project plan, and coordinates cross-team alignment; ensures security principles are incorporated.
  • Drives cross-team projects to meet evolving business needs; leads program management for organization-wide strategic initiatives requiring coordination across multiple disciplines and organizations.
  • Supports organization to become frontier in AI adoption.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Business, Operations, Finance, or related field AND 4+ years experience in program management, process management, or process improvement OR equivalent experience.

Skills

Required:Project/program management
Nice to have:CommunicationStakeholder managementData-driven decision making
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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