Responsibilities

• Serve as a trusted advisor, reporting directly to the EMEA Regional Business Lead
• React to the ongoing needs of the EMEA Gov team and prioritize activities accordingly
• Orchestrate meetings and agendas – Prioritize, align, assess, and define meetings with key stakeholders, project leaders, SMEs to meet overall program timelines.
• Communicate and report status – Provide progress updates, action item status and final decision criteria to key stakeholders, leaders, and partner teams.
• Partner – Ensure strong collaboration and alignment between Corp, Engineering, and Subsidiary teams to ensure the effective prioritization, development, review, and go-to-market of updated processes, capabilities, products, and solutions.
• Strive for an environment of trust, collaboration, and continuous improvement, with active feedback loop with stakeholders and active plan tracking with a focus on key improvements.
• Collaborates with EMEA leads and other Microsoft teams to consolidate and prepare information, to support the presentation of business cases to leader. Researches and prepares information for the team. Tracks and reports on key performance indicators (KPIs) and aids in data-driven decisions.
• Assists with ROB ( rythm of business)  by kicking off internal initiatives with relevant team leaders/members, managing team adherence to organizational compliance goals, and communicating team feedback and questions. Works with cross-company/team counterparts and supports collaborations with the leadership team to articulate objectives and deliverables and to measure the outcomes relative to the stated goals.

Qualifications

• 4+ years related experience in program management, project management, technical leadership, and/or business management within business planning, operations, and/or engineering background.  Knowledge of the Microsoft product and solution portfolio a plus.
• Ability to work and build strong relationships across teams and at all levels in the business
• Intermediate conflict resolution and negotiation skills 
• Strong self-motivation, highly adaptable, and a fierce advocate/influencer with the ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams
• Problem-solving ability, especially in gathering data to drive decision making under stringent timelines
• Passion and the ability to achieve exceptional results, tackle ambiguity, and match a fast-paced of delivery with minimal supervision. Ability to prioritize workloads effectively.
• Ability to develop creative solutions to complex problems by applying knowledge and judgment to identify approach and methods
• Data Analytics and Data Management. Power BI skills preferred, with strong oral and written communication, organization, and interpersonal skills
• Government experience preferred, as is the ability to speak a second language.

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