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Microsoft Business Operations is responsible for the contracting, performance management, and continuous improvement execution activities for all outsourced global service providers supporting a wide range of business units within Operations Service Center (OSC).
Our mission is to empower the OSC stakeholders with a range of data products and technical solutions to help them gather deeper insights and intelligence to make better decisions to run their business.
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The Business Insights Manager within the OSC team is responsible for leveraging data and analytics to drive strategic decisions, operational excellence, and business growth. This role involves managing and analysing complex datasets, developing insightful reports, and delivering prescriptive analytics to support a wide range of business functions.
The Business Insights Manager will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams including Engineering, Global Transact Services, Consumer Operations, Vendor Operations, Launch, and other support organisations to ensure data accuracy, consistency, and relevance. The role is pivotal in enabling:
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AI and CI Excellence: Demonstrates a growth mindset and actively builds AI and Continuous Improvement (CI) capabilities to deliver impactful reports and dashboards that supercharge operational excellence—enhancing speed, quality, and decision-making. Continuously upskills to contribute to a high-performing, AI-powered organisation. Champions a culture of innovation and inclusivity by encouraging all voices, setting a high-performance bar, and driving collective learning and adoption of AI+CI across teams.
Data Management: Build and maintain data pipelines, ensuring resources have continued parity across their resources and data consumption
**Technical Acumen:**Promote increased technical acumen and self-sufficiency across all teams. Act as a reliable and trusted point of contact in OSC related
Customer Relationship Management
(CRM) and data, empowering business stakeholders to make data driven decisions.
Reporting: Develop and manage Power BI solutions enabling key operational metrics and dashboards to manage the business. Identify and consolidating common needs across multiple business groups and process teams and driving prioritisation of most impactful efforts aligned to OSC strategy.
Data Insights: Enable teams through reporting to identify trends and operational insights. Prepares business users for change due to changes in CRM, processes by providing new reporting to support the new design.
Security Management: Identify and address security risks and concerns related to data, reporting, and access management
Partnership and Collaboration: Coordinating and aligning large scale deliverables across both CRM platform and data engineering teams into an end-to-end product, as well as agile self-driven delivery of capabilities and insights
Thought Leadership: Leveraging data and analytics to drive innovative business strategies and decisions. Inspire and guide teams to adopt a data-driven approach, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and operational excellence. Share insights and practices across the organisation to enhance overall business performance and customer engagement. Provides trusted voice at the decision-making table for both business and technical teams. Identifies challenges and opportunities with an in-depth understanding of the business, technology, and solution delivery. Advocates for decisions that make the highest use of resources to achieve overall business strategic objectives.
Presentation of Results : Effectively communicates insights through compelling presentations and data storytelling that support data-driven decision-making. Identifies opportunities to improve the efficiency and impact of reporting and presentations. Guides others to ensure results are presented in a way that is accessible, accurate, clear, and relevant—tailored to influence decisions for the intended audience(s).
Other: Embody our culture and values
Required Qualifications:
Preferred Qualifications:
Business Program Management IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $96,500 - $188,400 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 $123,500 - $206,400 per year.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
Microsoft will accept applications for the role until September 24, 2025.
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.