A Microsoft Integration Manager (IM) is responsible for providing insight, clarity, and execution to Microsoft’s acquisitions, divestitures, and joint ventures. This role leads and program-manages the core and virtual teams responsible for assessing and executing projects (transactions). Core job responsibilities include: providing early, strategic and best practice insight to deal teams; acting as a trusted advisor to the EG lead; establishing the Program Management Office (PMO); participating in preliminary due diligence; leading and executing confirmatory due diligence; leading integration planning and initial execution; continuously providing clarity around roles and responsibilities, process and outcomes; ensuring performance tracking and reporting occurs. The IM is also responsible, as a core member of a Microsoft Center of Excellence (COE), for the continuous improvement of the Venture Integration practice. Improvement deliverables include knowledge management / best practice identification and documentation, external benchmarking, and systems/tools improvement.

This role interacts with both internal and external groups (such as external diligence providers and transaction partners). The IM partners closely with Engineering Group leadership, corporate teams, Venture Integration functional teams, and acquired management teams across all areas of the company, to ensure transactions are smoothly executed.

Responsibilities

Strategic Job Requirements:

• Focuses on preserving and creating value from Microsoft’s transactions
• Understands and operationalizes the business strategy
• Program manages confirmatory due diligence, integration and separation planning, execution and performance tracking
• Mobilizes and leads virtual teams and manages to schedule and deliverables
• Assesses the impact of the integration/separation on the business and leads design and execution of plans to preserve and create value
• Translates business requirements into an integration/separation plan
• Creates highly effective partnerships, including regular clarification of roles and responsibilities, across client and partner teams
• Drives urgency to deliver on key milestones and deliverables
• Identifies and clarifies issues, risks, and opportunities, and escalates as appropriate
• Shares best practices and experiences from prior transactions from across the enterprise
• Facilitates connections and resolves cross-functional issues and prioritization
• Monitors progress against goals/facilitates reviews
• Ensures communication plans are in place
• Documents deal learnings and drives practice improvement based on these learnings

Qualifications

Strategic Working Relationships:

• Business leaders (Engineering Group Vice Presidents and General Managers)
• Business development and strategy teams
• Corporate teams (Tax, Corporate Development, LCA)
• Transaction partners (executive teams)
• VI practice leaders and teams
• Venture Integration Leadership Team
• Finance leadership

Qualifications include a minimum of 5 years of direct or related mergers & acquisitions experience. An MS, MA, MBA or like advanced degree in Business or related field is a benefit. Expertise in acquisitions, joint ventures, divestitures and strategy beneficial for selection. Must have broad-based business knowledge in the high-tech industry. Strong financial and business acumen required. Must be an effective communicator at all levels with the ability to act as trusted advisor to senior management at both Microsoft and the transaction partner.  Must have exceptionally strong program management skills. Experience should include successful participation in M&A transactions and/or broad program development and management. The most successful Integration Managers are outstanding relationship builders, problem definers/solvers, and clear communicators. Must possess strong leadership and management skills and have the ability to perform in an environment of ambiguity and make decisions within short timeframes with limited information. Up to 25% of time may be required for domestic and international travel, sometimes with short notice.

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.

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