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FULL_TIME
5-10

Senior Business Planner

11/26/2025

Lead Commerce Strategy Workflow Intelligence and Business Excellence enhancements and implementation. Identify opportunities to enhance commerce strategy workflows and drive key initiatives to increase productivity.

Working Hours

40 hours/week

Company Size

10,001+ employees

Language

English

Visa Sponsorship

No

About The Company
Every company has a mission. What's ours? To empower every person and every organization to achieve more. We believe technology can and should be a force for good and that meaningful innovation contributes to a brighter world in the future and today. Our culture doesn’t just encourage curiosity; it embraces it. Each day we make progress together by showing up as our authentic selves. We show up with a learn-it-all mentality. We show up cheering on others, knowing their success doesn't diminish our own. We show up every day open to learning our own biases, changing our behavior, and inviting in differences. Because impact matters. Microsoft operates in 190 countries and is made up of approximately 228,000 passionate employees worldwide.
About the Role
As a Senior Business Planner in the New Commerce & Commercial Strategy organization, you will lead Commerce Strategy Workflow Intelligence and Business Excellence enhancements and implementation, taking responsibility for defining and evolving the strategy, scoping and driving key initiatives, gaining executive and stakeholder alignment, and translating the strategy into tangible business outcomes that accelerate impact and increase productivity. How you will make an impact: Identify and address opportunities across key Commerce strategy workflows and rhythms of business to reduce time to impact and accelerate outcomes through exploring, scoping and delivering intelligent automation solutions (including AI Agents). Identify and address opportunities to leverage business intelligence solutions like Fabric/Power BI and other internal assets, to enhance end to end commerce strategy workflow effectiveness, speed up and improve decision making, and increase transparency and accountability across key initiatives. Build business cases on specific topics to influence internal investment decisions, intelligent automation and agentic solution roadmaps, and commerce strategy workflow design. Conduct internal and external research to gain new perspectives to cultivate and validate business cases. Drive cross-functional alignment and gain buy-in to solidify a business vision, aligning priorities and translating the strategy into requirements. Define the approach to bring a strategy to life through roadmap and change management planning and developing content that synthesizes details into an effective story that can be used across the organization. Embody our Culture and Values 5+ years product management, strategy consulting, finance, customer success engineering, business/corporate development, or related experience Experience as a storyteller with Fabric/PowerBI Front End, Azure Dev Ops,Designing and Building AI Agents or related experience OR equivalent experience. 8+ years product management, strategy consulting, finance, business/corporate development, or related experience AND Bachelor's Degree in Engineering/Computer Science, Economics, Business, or related field OR 6+ years product management, strategy consulting, finance, business/corporate development, or related experience AND Master's Degree in Business Administration (MBA), or related field OR equivalent experience. Strategic thinking and ability to learn, understand and connect complex business models quickly. Structured and analytical approach to problem-solving with the ability to utilize data. A proven track record of engaging with cross-functional stakeholders to gain credibility and partnership quickly. Demonstrated ability to successfully work and collaborate closely with Software Engineers, Data Scientists, Data Engineers, Product Managers, and other deeply technical disciplines.
Key Skills
Product ManagementStrategy ConsultingFinanceBusiness DevelopmentBusiness IntelligenceAutomation SolutionsAI AgentsData AnalysisCross-Functional CollaborationRoadmap PlanningChange ManagementStorytellingAzure Dev OpsPower BIResearchProblem-Solving
Categories
Management & LeadershipTechnologyData & AnalyticsConsultingFinance & Accounting
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