Operations Key Account Manager

The Partner Operations (PO) team is chartered with the operational enablement of our partner ecosystem.  The PO team sits within the Microsoft Business Operation (MBO) organization and is focused on making it easier for our partners to do business with Microsoft.  A key component of the organization is supporting partners with their move to cloud and digital transformation.  We do this through representing deep subject matter expertise and partner voice in design phase of launches and through delivery of change management for launches that are partner impacting. 

We manage our partners through a community model with a differentiation of service provided to our top partners through a specific Operations Key Account Management function.  We are accountable for representing the voice of our partners and customers in policy, process and platform; for landing change with partners and driving our partners to adopt new experiences/capabilities, for supporting the partner lifecycle of our partner ecosystem and ensuring that our partners are compliant.

We are looking for an individual contributor to join our team as a  Operations Key Account Manager (OKAM) within the PO organization. The OKAM is responsible for enabling our top partners as they transform to the cloud.  By using data and their deep understanding of partner processes they will identify business insights and opportunities that accelerate their assigned partners' transformation, optimize processes and increase partner productivity.

Interpersonal Skills of the Successful Candidates 

• Energy, Passion, Curiosity, Ambition and Drive
• Ability to learn quickly, be adaptable and deal with ambiguity
• Articulate and convincing communicator with the ability to build solid relationships with individuals at all levels, in multiple geographies and business functions both internally and externally.
• Demonstrated ability to story tell leveraging data
• Organized and can orchestrate, project management across a virtual team
• Self-motivated and able to work effectively with numerous virtual teams of diverse backgrounds.

If you love working with partners and are passionate about helping our partners to do business with Microsoft, then we invite you to learn more about the Partner Operations team.  We offer unique opportunities to work on interesting global projects in an environment that appreciates diversity, focuses on talent development and recognizes and rewards great work.

Required/Minimum Qualifications 

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Operations, Finance or related field AND 4+ years work experience in program management, process management, process improvement 
  • OR equivalent experience. 
• A fluent command of English proficiency in verbal & written communication.

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years' experience in Operations, Program Management or Project Management
• Strategic relationship management skills and experience 
• Demonstrated ability in excelling at improving customer / partner experience
• A proven track record of building and leveraging data insights to influence stakeholders
• Developed corporate communication and influence skills
• Proven experience in complex, global program management where design, development and implementation of new processes, systems and organizations are required
• Proven experience of influencing an organization across more than one geography, and influencing other organizations where their support is critical to success

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until April 28,2025 

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

• Account Management
• Manage engagement at executive level between Partner and Microsoft.
• Support executive escalations between key Partners and Microsoft stakeholders as needed.
• Launch Enablement - Readying and enabling assigned partner on changes that have high impact
• Work with internal teams to understand roadmap deliverables and develop plans to integrate into Partner business model
• Coordinate Co-Design Opportunities to embed Partner input and experiences into key future capability roadmap development
• Change Management - Land operational change and drive adoption of that change with assigned partner ensuring the partner can transact at scale on launch.
• Identify business insights and opportunities, using data and a deep understanding of Partner processes to accelerate change adoption  across Microsoft products, services, programs & policy.
• Work with key Microsoft and Partner stakeholders to address adoption blockers
• Drive quality, timely and compliant partner transaction
• Drive digital transformation by ensuring quality of the partner transactions across order to cash processes
• Representing the voice of the partner across policy, process, people and platform requirements
• Apply a continuous improvement mindset to everything we do, using data and business insights to improve partner experience, support processes or existing readiness models, tools and communication modes.

• Other 

  • Embody our culture and values