Director, Business Planning - Modern Work
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Mar 03, 2025 | |
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OverviewJoin the Microsoft Business Planning team to define the business and monetization strategy across Modern Work applications for our commercial customers. This leadership role is responsible creating strategies and business models to grow the Microsoft 365 subscription business with consumers. AI is dramatically changing what the market expects from our Modern Work offers. Engineering is rapidly developing new capabilities and entirely new products, changing the entire value equation with our commercial customers. Do you like finding creative solutions to hard problems? Are you strategic, analytical and structured? Can you clearly communicate new ideas to your audience? If so, join the Commercial Business Planning team! This team centralizes our efforts across the Modern Work commercial app portfolio, including Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and more. This is an opportunity to lead our product and business model transformation to grow a multi-billion-dollar business. This will require a strategic thinker who can help evolve the business in a changing landscape to address key market trends and customer needs and capitalize on new opportunities. In this role, you will be responsible for providing thought leadership in defining our strategy and business models through subscription SKUs, pricing, licensing, and business model innovation as well a growing and coaching a team of high performing business planners. Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
ResponsibilitiesThis is a highly visible role that will require expertise in several areas: 1) people and team management; 2) collaborating and developing relationships with engineering, marketing and other teams across the company; 3) business thought leadership and executive presence; 4) excellent written and verbal communication skills and 5) cross-company strategic alignment. How you can make an impact: * Attract, retain, and grow business planning talent as a team manager * Build a diverse and inclusive team culture * Set business strategy & develop corresponding business models to drive business growth and meet customer needs * Identify & assess market opportunities to drive business strategy and build complete business cases to support new growth investment opportunities * Present, influence and align executives and the broader organization through cross-functional v-team work * Influence engineering roadmaps based on market opportunity, competitive landscape, and economic impact * Provide thought leadership on cross Microsoft initiatives across the commercial business, optimizing for global maxima * Develop key metrics, forecasts, and reporting in partnership with finance and engineering to monitor business performanceEmbody our culture and values. | |