Microsoft Corporation Hiring for Director of Communications – Commercial Systems & BI at Alpharetta, Georgia Full Time

The Microsoft Commercial Systems & Business Intelligence (CSBI) organization is seeking a dynamic Director of Communications.

About the MCAPS Strategy & Operations organization :

We drive the development and execution of the Commercial strategy and field operating model. This includes how the organization benefits customers and partners, enabling MCAPS to support them more effectively, efficiently, and with competitive differentiation. The team builds the connective tissue across MCAPS Leadership and partners across Microsoft to gain alignment and leverage existing capabilities, while empowering our people to be nimble, agile, successful, and thrilled to work for Microsoft.

About Commercial Systems & BI (CSBI) team:

Our objective is to build world class platform and intelligence capabilities to serve how Microsoft manages and delivers our company’s business, both internally and externally. We will achieve this by fostering a customer-focused, collaborative culture, and fueling growth through the people and programs we support. Our principles are to be customer obsessed, simple & focused, data driven, innovative, and business aligned.

Join us and be one who empowers billions! That’s incredible reach. When you combine that with your own inspiration, plus the freedom and support to make your ideas happen, you can make a huge impact on how people work and live all over the world.

About the Role: Director of Communications

We are seeking an experienced Director of Communications to lead the communications strategy across our internal Stakeholder, Executives and Internal Teams. This person will collaborate across the leadership team and with the Executive comms teams as well as manage day to day engagement with internal teams to help drive awareness of upcoming releases with our field.

Responsibilities

What you will be doing:

• Execution of Communication Strategy – Takes responsibility for the bill of materials and ensures alignment to the strategy and adherence to business objectives. Creates ideas for and develops collateral materials (e.g., decks, posts, talking points) for use in a range of communications initiatives and events.

• Leads development, review, and editing of materials for internal communications including briefing materials, scripting/messaging for internal keynotes, presentations, and events. Drives the use of current and relevant templates and materials and the improvement of same. Builds on effectiveness of previously used materials. Drives interactive engagement where appropriate

• Leads strategy development internally for employee communications. Drives an over-arching cadence of communications and platforms for employees in the org.

• Stakeholder Management Conceptualizes and develops content to educate, guide, and advise internal stakeholders and partners on Strategy and Priorities that align to cross org objectives.

• Drive and Monitor Messaging and Impact – Monitors, tracks, and analyzes the impact of and responses to messaging for a given issue. Creates responsive materials as needed. Engages others appropriately in responsive efforts. Leverages insights to inform data-driven proactive approaches.

Qualifications

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form (https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/accommodationrequest) .

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