Senior Business Planner

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In short

Microsoft is seeking a Senior Business Planner to drive the business strategy, pricing, packaging, and licensing for its growing cloud security portfolio, especially as customers adopt AI. This high-visibility role involves strategic thinking, financial modeling, and cross-group collaboration to identify growth opportunities and influence product design and go-to-market strategies.

Responsibilities

Define business strategy, business model, pricing, packaging, licensing, discounting and compete strategies
Orchestrate usage analysis, research and financial modelling to identify market growth opportunities and drive business case development
Drive decision making with senior executive stakeholders and orchestrate implementation and execution for launching new business models and offers
Engage closely with engineering to inform product development and drive alignment between product and monetization strategy
Partner with product marketing and sales teams on go to market strategies to land new offers in market, create promotions and enable compete strategies
Partner with operations teams on operationalizing new offerings and successfully making them available to customers and partners
Represent Business Planning in cross-company business planning forums, field, and partner events, etc.
Embody our culture and values.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in Engineering/Computer Science, Economics, Business, or related field AND 4+ years product management, strategy consulting, finance, business/corporate development, or related experience
OR equivalent experience.
3+ years of hands-on experience in software/cloud technologies, acquired in a tech company or as a core focus area within consulting projects.

Desired Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree in Engineering/Computer Science, Economics, Business, or related field AND 8+ years product management, strategy consulting, finance, business/corporate development, or related experience
OR Master's Degree in Business Administration (MBA), or related field AND 6+ years product management, strategy consulting, finance, business/corporate development, or related experience
OR equivalent experience.

Benefits

The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $106,400 - $203,600 per year.
There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $137,600 - $222,600 per year.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.

Skills

Product ManagementStrategy ConsultingFinanceBusiness DevelopmentCloud TechnologiesCybersecurity

#business strategy#pricing#packaging#licensing#cloud security#AI#go to market

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