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Business Administrator
About the job
Cloud Operations + Innovation is seeking a skilled Business Administrator to provide support to the GM of the Land Development & Community team within the Cloud Infrastructure Acquisition organization. This role will take on a variety of tasks while working in a fast-paced and dynamic environment. The ideal candidate will have strong organizational and communication skills, be able to proactively anticipate needs and shift priorities quickly, be self-motivated, self-aware, and can balance a sense of humor with a sense of responsibility. Candidates should appreciate a fast-paced, energetic work environment, and have a sense of urgency for key deliverables, and be deliberate and forward-thinking in how they approach challenges and operate administratively at scale.
In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.
Responsibilities
- Provides calendar management and time planning support for a General Manager
- Provides travel arrangements using Microsoft tools (e.g., accommodations, transportation, security, group codes) for manager(s) and/or group
- Contributes to and oversees planning, tracking, maintenance, and adjustment of equipment and inventory based on stock requirements and business needs
- Processes expense reports with full compliance of Microsoft policy
- Participates in discretionary budget tracking (e.g., morale, hardware, supplies) and reporting
- Actively participates in the Business Support community
- Contributes to team experience activities
- Collaborates with Global Talent Acquisition (GTA) to support internal and external recruitment efforts, and partners with hiring managers to ensure a smooth process, under guidance of senior colleagues as needed
- Participates in onboarding and assists new employees, vendors, and interns as an essential contact for questions
- Executes various projects and tasks and completes project deliverables with little or no supervision
- Maintains up-to-date space-management processes and team spaces (e.g., office locations/desk assignments, private conference rooms, seasonally transitional spaces, remote/location status), with guidance
- Partners with managers across the organization and senior colleagues to learn and execute processes
Qualifications
Required/Minimum Qualifications:
- 2+ years Administrative, Business Support, and/or customer service experience
Other Requirements
Candidates must meet Microsoft, customer, and government security background screening requirements for this role. These requirements currently include, but may change, and are not limited to:
- Microsoft Cloud Screen Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Screen background check upon hire/transfer and every two years after that while in this role.
Additional Or Preferred Qualifications
- 3+ years Administrative, Business Support, or customer service experience in an environment with an emphasis on scheduling meetings/events, travel management, and basic administration work
- Associate’s/Bachelor’s Degree in relevant field (e.g., Business Administration, Human Resources [HR], Marketing, Communications, Psychology, Sociology) OR equivalent experience
- 1+ year(s) experience reviewing and managing administrative budgets (e.g., for events, morale, travel, training)
Business Support ATR-C – The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $23.56 – $41.68 per hour. 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 $34.71 – $48.22 per hour.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.
Partner Store Market Consultant
The Partner Store Market Consultant will be individuals who love to interact with people to revolutionize the Microsoft brand at Best Buy. We’re looking for someone who has fanaticism for Microsoft technologies and the ability to convert retail employees and customers into fanatical brand advocates of the Microsoft ecosystem. As the Partner Store Market Consultant, you will wear many hats and serve as a trainer, educator, event and product consultant to both customers and employees at Best Buy. You will manage and support the training, merchandising, events, and operations of the Microsoft product ecosystem within Best Buy. Representing Microsoft and working in our Windows Stores at Best Buy puts you at the center of the customer shopping experience and your role will span many facets of the retail experience. You will be expected to build relationships, earn the trust of employees and customers alike as you engage, educate, excite and empower those around you. Being able to educate through demonstration, training and product evangelism techniques will have to be what you love to do every day! You will have to be someone who loves to influence, shape and design outcomes to help Microsoft compete and win. Microsoft will discover potential you didn’t know you had, push your limits, and inspire you to make a real impact on the industry and the world!
Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.
Qualifications
Required/Minimum Qualifications
- High School Diploma or equivalent AND 3+ years retail experience
- OR Bachelor’s Degree AND 1+ year(s) retail experience.
- 1+ year(s) of leadership experience.
- 1+ year(s) of one or a combination of the following: customer facing technical support/retail support/product support.
Additional or Preferred Qualifications
- High School Diploma or equivalent AND 5+ years retail experience
- OR Bachelor’s Degree AND 3+ years leadership retail experience AND 1+ year(s) multi-unit experience.
- Prior experience selling technology or other consumer products.
- Superior end to end customer service/people rapport building skills, both 1:1 and in a group environment.
Partner Store Market Consulting ATR-D – The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $62,700 – $105,500 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 $76,300 – $111,800 per year.
Responsibilities
- Support Best Buy employees and customers discover, enable, and implement high value Microsoft technology solutions and services across a broad range of devices that meet their individual needs and exceed their expectations.
- Maintain top level product knowledge in all Microsoft retail consumer products, devices, and services.
- Self-educate, share specialized knowledge, and demonstrate and present the newest product and service offerings across all devices.
- Build collaborative internal and external partnerships in the development of the necessary tools and program offerings that will lead to long-term mutual partner outcomes.
- Maintain Microsoft merchandising standards in accordance with Microsoft brand guidelines.
- Provide store level insights to Channel, Sales, and Category teams influence marketing and sales programs and strategies.
- Transfer Microsoft evangelism of products through in-person group presentations, training events, and conference calls.
- Support and manage the Microsoft business for up to 5 stores; including aligning training and other store business needs.
- A typical work week would run Sunday-Saturday, with Tuesday and Wednesday off.
- Assisting Microsoft Experts/Consultants, in side-by-side sales interactions, as well as individualized.
Sales Excellence Manager
The Sales Excellence Manager covering the Dynamics Small, Medium, Corporate Business in the Americas region is a strategic role that enables and drives consistent Sales Excellence practices to achieve cloud transformation and growth objectives. As a trusted advisor to the Customer Success Leadership team, the focus of the Senior Sales Excellence Manager’s role is to be a driver of sales discipline and execution excellence, as well as a sales coach, accelerating business growth by translating insights into actions.
Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
Responsibilities
Business Partnership and Support
- Advises segment leads or partners, or collaborates with peers to develop segment strategy for segmentation, territory planning, and quota setting. Shares feedback on proposed segmentation changes based on local business knowledge. Aligns with Business and Sales Operations (BSO) on quota distribution strategy and timeline for the Area. Leverages segment knowledge to provide input on judgment/adjustments prior to quota decisions. Participates in sales leader and manager briefings to share quotas and rationale where needed.
- Maintains and/or defines a predictable rhythm of the connection (RoC) in collaboration with peers and/or leadership. Contributes to RoC activities to enforce great discipline and ensure quality outcome delivery. Provides business insights and recommendations to effect positive changes. Identifies opportunities to streamline and improve the RoC cadence within the supported segment/region.
- As primary orchestrator of the Account/Portfolio Partner Business Plan, contributes to activating sponsorship within segment leaders. Coaches managers and sellers on account/portfolio/partner business planning fundamentals, habits, and plan quality. Contributes to reinforcement and review of quality plans within the segment/region.
- Advises and contributes to sales teams on sales motions/strategies for opportunity management (e.g., up-sell, cross-sell, renewal, recapture). Contributes to operationalizing prioritized sales plays and industry solutions. Identifies opportunities to generate new business and accelerate the closing of existing opportunities.
- Drives sales growth through account or business planning. Analyzes the outlook and leverages business insights to benchmark performance and make suggestions on current and future actions based on key drivers, opportunities, and/or risks. Supports the integration, alignment, and/or execution on the defined actions within the segment/region.
Supporting Executive Capacity
- Supports segment leader capacity as a senior leader. Advises on and contributes to various aspects of business management (e.g., employee engagement, resource allocation, change management, building high-performing teams) in collaboration with leadership and cross-functional teams. Represents the segment as an internal advocate and an extension of the segment leadership.
Driving Sales Process Discipline
- Instills sales process discipline, adherence to standards and excellence in execution, or pipeline health. Holds sales managers accountable for account plan quality and completeness. Helps ensure consistency and excellence in the sales process within the segment/region. Shares best practices within their team.
- Acts as a subject matter expert to advocate and support effective and rigorous usage of common and/or new processes and tools developed for the wider business to improve internal and external communications and engagements. Consolidates input from the supported area into the feedback loop. Communicates feedback to engineer/partner teams on tools.
- Contributes to analytics on key revenue drivers (e.g. by channel, by product, by geo). Integrates findings from data analysis. Leverages reporting and analytical capabilities to generate data-based insights and enable visibility into revenue and forecast for sellers, sales managers and leaders, or partners.
Sales Coaching for Growth and Transformation
- Improves awareness and clarity of Corporate or TimeZone programs among sales teams and managers. Intakes and contributes to adopting plans to create new habits among sales teams or partners.
- Partners with Area Transformation Leads, Area Capability Leads, and Business and Sales Operations (BSO) to remove sales roadblocks, drive utilizations of investment, increase customer/partner-facing time, and enhance seller/partner capability and effectiveness. Provides input to sales teams to anticipate and mitigate risks. Captures and integrates feedback on sales challenges or blockers. Communicates feedback to relevant teams through the appropriate channel.
- Contributes to optimizing sales team processes and capabilities within the supported segment. Assesses customer/partner needs and applies methodologies and resources to transform seller capabilities, sales processes, and/or partner engagement processes.
- Coaches and builds relationships with sales team on executing key priorities. Engages sales team to become more effective coaches to their sellers. Helps sales team achieve increased individual and team capability, employee satisfaction, and collaborative selling efforts. May contribute to coaching on large deal pursuit.
Other
Qualifications
Required/Minimum Qualifications
- 4+ years experience in sales, sales operations/management, account management, program management, business development, marketing, consulting, or a related field
- OR equivalent experience.
- 3+ years of experience using data to drive business outcomes or inform business decisions.
- 3+ years of experience managing relationships with stakeholders, clients, and/or customers.
Additional Or Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree or relevant work experience
- 3+ years managing projects, including planning, managing timelines, and tracking progress, and/or change management experience.
- Ability to motivate, inspire, and lead cross group/functional teams with independence and success.
- 4+ years presentation experience with a focus on storytelling and persuasion.
- Ability to function effectively in a matrixed work environment; with cross-functional team collaboration skills.
Research Intern – ML and Computational Biology for the Immune System
Research Internships at Microsoft provide a dynamic environment for research careers with a network of world-class research labs led by globally-recognized scientists and engineers, who pursue innovation in a range of scientific and technical disciplines to help solve complex challenges in diverse fields, including computing, healthcare, economics, and the environment.
Microsoft Health Futures is an interdisciplinary team of scientists, engineers, and medical professionals working at the forefront of academic research, enterprise software development, and real-world healthcare delivery. Our team combines rigorous research with rapid software iterations and impactful deployments, all within a dynamic, startup-like environment.
The human immune system is an extraordinary diagnostic network, continually adapting to detect and fight disease. This adaptability results in widely varied immune responses, shaped by factors like disease complexity (e.g., infectious and auto-immune diseases and cancer) and genetics. Given this variability and the immune system’s central role in health, developing sophisticated models of immune function is essential to advancing precision medicine.
The Immunomics group within Health Futures is dedicated to this vision. We build large-scale models of immune responses and immune cells, integrating statistical modeling and machine learning (ML) techniques such as representation learning, survival analysis, causal inference and generative modeling, alongside foundational immunological research. Our approach combines statistical modeling and advanced ML techniques with deep biological insights into areas like cancer biology, antigen presentation, an aging immune system and T cell activation. We believe that both cutting-edge machine learning and domain expertise are crucial to driving meaningful progress.
We invite applications for a Research Internship focused on unraveling the complexities of the human immune system. For full consideration, please submit your application by January 17, 2025. Note: Reference letters are not required, despite any language in the qualifications section.
Responsibilities
Research Interns put inquiry and theory into practice. Alongside fellow doctoral candidates and some of the world’s best researchers, Research Interns learn, collaborate, and network for life. Research Interns not only advance their own careers, but they also contribute to exciting research and development strides. During the 12-week internship, Research Interns are paired with mentors and expected to collaborate with other Research Interns and researchers, present findings, and contribute to the vibrant life of the community. Research internships are available in all areas of research, and are offered year-round, though they typically begin in the summer.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
- Accepted or currently enrolled in a PhD program in Machine Learning, Statistics, Computer Science, Computational Biology or other related field.
Other Requirements
- Research Interns are expected to be physically located in their manager’s Microsoft worksite location for the duration of their internship.
- In addition to the qualifications below, you’ll need to submit a minimum of two reference letters for this position as well as a cover letter and any relevant work or research samples. After you submit your application, a request for letters may be sent to your list of references on your behalf. Note that reference letters cannot be requested until after you have submitted your application, and furthermore, that they might not be automatically requested for all candidates. You may wish to alert your letter writers in advance, so they will be ready to submit your letter.
Preferred Qualifications
- Ability to develop original research agendas demonstrated by strong publication record as a lead author.
- Skills analyzing large datasets including but not limited to large-scale learning, experimental design, and statistical modeling.
- Able to collaborate and communicate across disciplines as part of a cross-functional team.
- Experience working with complex biological datasets.
The base pay range for this internship is USD $6,550 – $12,880 per month. 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 $8,480 – $13,920 per month.
