Operations Deal Manager

1 Month ago • 4 Years + • Business Development

Job Summary

Job Description

The Operations Deal Manager at Microsoft serves as a trusted advisor to the sales team, focusing on pipeline management and deal de-risking. Responsibilities include stakeholder management (Sales, Operations, and other stakeholders), collaborating on pipeline management (creating workback plans, tracking deal statuses), communicating effectively with sales teams, providing accurate deal forecasts, partnering for credit capacity support, maintaining process knowledge, de-risking complex deals, applying policies, acting as an escalation point for order processing, identifying and analyzing data to solve customer/partner issues, anticipating changing conditions and reporting key trends. This role requires strong prioritization, problem-solving, and communication skills, as well as a deep understanding of licensing models and sales processes.
Must have:
  • Bachelor's degree in relevant field
  • 4+ years experience in program/process management
  • Strong prioritization & problem-solving skills
  • Fluent English (verbal & written)
  • Stakeholder management expertise
  • Pipeline management & deal de-risking
Good to have:
  • Understanding of licensing models
  • Sales excellence process knowledge
  • Data analysis & trend identification skills
  • Strategic thinking & tactical action
  • Excellent presentation & communication skills

Job Details

Overview

Our Business:

If you love the pursuit of excellence and are inspired by the challenges that come through driving innovations that impact how the world lives, works and plays, then we invite you to learn more about operations - and the value we deliver across Microsoft and to our customers and partners. We offer unique opportunities to work on interesting global projects in an environment that appreciates diversity, focuses on talent development, recognizes, and rewards great work.

 

Our team focuses on order to cash lifecycle for Microsoft products and services. We manage pre-sales processes through pipeline management, ensuring successful close to secure revenue while optimizing deal management processes in partnership with the field.

 

This Role:

Operations Deal Managers are trusted advisors to the Sales team, focusing on pipeline management and the de-risking of deals. The team’s goal is to enable world class operational deal management throughout the deal lifecycle to give selling time back to the field, increase deal velocity and quality, offer a best in class customer experience and ensure accurate revenue recognition and compliance. 

 

The ideal candidate will have a proven track record in supporting operational/licensing based contracting scenarios. Alongside the required credibility and competencies, the candidate should be a perfect fit for, and understand and embrace, Microsoft’s values and culture.

Qualifications

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
  • Strong prioritization skills and proven problem-solving abilities to manage uncertainties while handling multiple priorities, particularly when confronted with time-sensitive issues that require collaborative evaluation and resolution across team boundaries
  • A fluent command of English proficiency in verbal & written communication

 

Preffered Qualifications:

  • Good understanding of licensing models
  • Good understanding of sales excellence process
  • Ability to understand data models, trend analysis
  • Strong focus on tactical action and strategic thinking with commitment to identifying opportunities for improvement, working with little supervision, and driving consensus
  • Excellent presentation skills and ability to engage senior leaders
  • Strong work ethic with the ability to multi-task and prioritize
  • Passion for technology, innovation, and leading change – a growth mindset is essential
  • Process and project management skills and experience

 

 

Responsibilities

Roles & Responsibilities

  • Serve as a trusted advisor for deal management in assigned markets
  • Stakeholder management:
  • Develop impactful relationships with Sales, Operations & other business stakeholders to deliver a best in class deal management experience to maximize revenue booked
  • Collaborate with field/ subsidiary sales & licensing stakeholders on pipeline management, which includes creating and managing workback plans, track deal statuses and arrivals
  • Communicate skillfully to align expectations with field/ subsidiary sales & licensing stakeholders when it comes to critical deals (especially at month/quarter end)
  • Provide accurate deal and order volume forecasts
  • Partner with relevant teams to ensure adequate credit capacity to support the deal pipeline
  • Maintain deep understanding of current business processes, policies and tools that impact deal velocity and leverage internal relationships to de-risk complex and transformational deals
  • Understanding and applying policies and program knowledge to deal consultancy, as well as act as the escalation point for order processing and policy/program related issues
  • Systematically identify and analyze causal links in complex patterns or ambiguous data to understand implications of customer/partner issues and required solutions
  • Anticipate and action on changing conditions, identify new risks and issues and report on key issues/trends to drive process and productivity initiatives

 

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