Chief of Staff, US Health & Life Sciences - Manager of Managers

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 The US Health & Life Sciences (HLS) Industry is a national sales organization with revenue of $8B and an organization of 850 employees. Our focus is on digital transformation of strategic and commercial enterprise health customers covering the provider, payor, pharma/life sciences and med- tech verticals.

The Chief of Staff, U.S. Health & Life Sciences (HLS), Manager of Managers plays a pivotal role in accelerating revenue and strategic business outcomes by establishing and fostering collaborative partnerships within the team and with other organizational leaders and stakeholders. The Chief of Staff will lead multiple organizations, and business functions including, sales excellence, business strategy/planning, operational excellence, program/business management, commercial deal execution encompassing licensing/pricing & agreement negotiations and the executive support teams

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in relevant field (e.g., Liberal Arts, Business Administration, Management, Computer Science) AND 8+ years experience in financial management, business planning, operations management, strategy, project management, human resources, or business-related roles

o OR equivalent experience.

• 5 + years people management experience.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in relevant field (e.g., Liberal Arts, Business Administration, Management, Computer Science) AND 10+ years experience in financial management, business planning, operations management, strategy, project management, human resources, or business-related roles

o OR Master's Degree in relevant field (e.g., Liberal Arts, Business Administration, Management, Computer Science) AND 7+ years experience in financial management, business planning, operations management, strategy, project management, human resources, or business-related roles

o OR equivalent experience.

Business Management M6 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $129,200 - $273,400 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 $162,000 - $299,400 per year.

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Microsoft will accept applications for the role until Jamuary 17, 2025

People Management

• Managers deliver success through empowerment and accountability by modeling, coaching, and caring.
• Model - Live our culture; Embody our values; Practice our leadership principles.
• Coach - Define team objectives and outcomes; Enable success across boundaries; Help the team adapt and learn.
• Care - Attract and retain great people; Know each individual’s capabilities and aspirations; Invest in the growth of others.

 Orchestrate a High Performing Leadership Team 

• Enable forums to capture all voices of Leadership Team (LT) members
• Enable problem solving among the Leadership Team
• Develop and orchestrate an effective Rhythm of Business
• Support Leadership Team in building and growing effective inclusive teams; drive the Microsoft strategy; and role model our Microsoft values, to deliver exceptional results
• Enable the Leadership Team to effectively live our brand and culture through every engagement externally and internally

Lead and Manage Sales Excellence, Commercial Sales, and Business/Program Management Organizations.

• Navigate and drive OU alignment with the business and processes within Microsoft Customer and Partner Sales (MCAPS), Sales Enablement & Operations (SE&O) and Microsoft Americas area, demonstrating empathy for the unique challenges of the field.
• Lead the execution of business & sales operations for US HLS – delivering accurate, consistent, productive and impactful Rhythm of the Business, support Sales Excellence in all functions including (but not limited to) quota/target setting, account planning, territory mapping, employee assignments, pipeline management practices, forecasting, business reviews, and resolving disputes within revenue crediting, compensation, target assignments, etc.
• Own and lead the team through multi-Fiscal Year planning – organization design, growth models, alignment for greater scale, etc.
• Lead alignment to achieve HLS Key Performance Indicators to drive effective and efficient sales, support, and consumption
• Lead business analyses and scenario planning as required.

Manage Office of the Vice President and Executive Communications for the Vice President (VP)

• Develop and deliver a strong business support structure of administrative resources supporting the LT & broader US HLS Operating Unit (OU)
• Own and manage OPEX budget (all line items from Payroll, Hardware, T&E, Recruiting, Morale, Marketing, Sponsorships, etc.), Blueprint and Headcount management effectively in partnership with Americas Business & Sales Operations, Finance, Sales Excellence, HR, Global Talent Acquisition (GTA); deliver accuracy
• Build Momentum, excitement and inspire action in the field via the voice of the VP with relevant communications sent proactively and predictable frequency
• Ensure vehicles / forums exist to communicate the right key priorities and current progress to the field via All Hands, Pulse updates, Off sites
• Share communication best practices and ideas across Operating Units and in turn leverage corresponding best practices from segment peers & partners
• Lead analysis, follow-up actions and implement changes derived from the bi-Annual Employee Signals and Leadership Signals surveys.

Manage and Organize VP Field & Customer Engagement and all Executive Engagement

• Partner, coach, coordinate with Business Manager and Customer & Partner Engagement Manager to execute on executive engagement plan, exec field visits, 1st to 3rd party exec events
• Ensure optimized VP field engagement with strategic customers (e.g. customer challenges; Compete; Agreement negotiations, migration to clous, Low Consumption, etc.)
• Ensure effective and efficient use of VP time while in the field including touch points with Field (internal) and Sponsored Accounts (externally); ensure field associated prep/post SLAs & post visit follow up are met
• Ensure focus on effective Quality Proactive Planning of field visits in a way that has a low tax on the field (e.g.: enough lead time; good direction, etc.)             
• Ensure all executive engagements/field visits at CVP level and above are run smoothly with right customers engaged and productive meeting outcomes are achieved

Build US HLS Brand & Culture in partnership with LT and enable org

• Build and nurture Manager Community within US HLS in partnership with GMs and HR.
• Support ongoing readiness efforts and coordinate community learnings and best practice sharing among managers and sellers.
• Liaise and Manage Matrix & Extended Teams : Liaise with key business partners (Business Management community, National/MCAPS teams, Services, Partner org) and build/maintain connections to enable successful operation of the business
• Adhere to Compliance Requirements & support HLS Compliance Champion

Organizational Health

• Drives team culture and health for the leader by getting a pulse on organizational health, as well as leading culture initatives (e.g., Diversity and Inclusion [D&I], hiring, onboarding) while partnering with Human Resources to do so. Capitalizes on team strengths and identifies development areas, strategizing, planning, and executing trainings. In partnership with Human Resources, tracks Microsoft Signals responses and coordinates a response. Tracks the use of role-based compliance trainings and new trainings; drives the training completion rates. Ensures a healthy compliance scorecard for the organization.

Special Projects/Programs and Initiatives

• Drives cross-team projects as needed to meet the changing business environment and to manage complex business needs. Leads project/program management to ensure organization-wide implementation of strategic efforts that require hands-on coordination across multiple disciplines and business organizations. Leads strategic innovation and experimentation. Creates clarity on ambiguous projects and develops plan for execution.

Specialty Responsibilities

• Leads executive-level communication with a variety of internal audiences. Optimizes the leader's time by structuring the communication strategy for the business and organizing the daily communications of the leader; performs triage and ghostwriting on behalf of the leader to expedite leader's time responding to emails. Develops presentations and messaging to articulate the team's mission, key projects, organizational/company strategy, and vision on behalf of the leader. May perform executive-level communication with a variety of audiences. Ensures alignment with business priorities. Proactively seeks out relevant content to communicate to the organization. Guides tactical response to crisis situations.*
• Designs and oversees the creation of foundational and storytelling content within the organization and in the industry. Uses understanding of audience needs to ensure the optimal use of leaders' time. Synthesizes findings within workstream and identifies links to broader strategic efforts and external facing thought leadership. Provides direction for criteria used to break down complex information into actionable steps for audience; organizes executive visits, including global events with customers. Represents the leader when with

Other

• Embody our and