Senior Marketing Manager, Strategic Planning

OverviewCome join the commercial Cloud Marketing team at Microsoft as a Senior Marketing Manager, Strategic Planning, charged to lead our new strategic planning function across our all key businesses, including Azure, Microsoft 365 and Dynamics 365. Part of the Global Demand Center, this role will be developing and facilitating our annual and quarterly planning rhythms to align across all of our marketing organizations including product marketing, GTM, and integrated marketing. We are looking for someone who loves organizing and creating structure, who has a proven track record of developing processes, systems, and structures that allow others to be successful. You will ideate and innovate to advance our planning process and how we represent business impact aligned to our planning priorities. You will manage and maintain senior level executive relationships across marketing and sales roles to drive unity and alignment during the planning process. About the Global Demand Center (GDC) The GDC is a large-scale customer acquisition and global lifecycle engine. We strive for high business impact and continual process improvements and global impact through digital marketing, automation and AI. Our mission aligns with Microsoft's goal of empowering every person and organization to achieve more. Join us in creating a culture of inclusion, innovation, and collaboration where everyone can thrive! 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.ResponsibilitiesPlanning Framework Creation. You will help create the end-to-end planning process across a complex set of stakeholders to ensure quality, consistency, and clarity as our business leaders go into annual and quarterly planning process. This will include creating planning frameworks, guiding principles, and ensuring alignment across all our business stakeholders.Annual and Quarterly Planning Leadership. You will guide our partners and stakeholders through the planning process, oversee Solution Play Governance, and drive innovation on how we run, professionalize, and streamline our planning process.Communications. Effective clear communications will ensure stakeholders are aligned on key deliverables and timelines to ensure timely Executive reviews and global program launches.Plan Measurement & Performance. You will also help how we report back out on our plan performance and business impact with quarterly executive reviews.Innovation. Help bring new tools, tech, and AI to the forefront of our planning process. OtherEmbody our culture and values