Senior Communications Manager

 Job Description: We’re looking for a business/marketing expert who is a strategic and creative thinker with a natural ability to translate complex technical concepts into business results-oriented narratives that resonate with the organization, business, and industry. You will shape the communication strategy for senior leaders (VPs and GMs) in Microsoft IT. You will develop and drive a group-wide communication plan that ensures message clarity and consistency through every level of the organization. The communication plan will clearly establish the communication rhythm of the business (ROB) for your senior leaders and will align with the overall Microsoft IT ROB calendar. You will work closely with senior leaders to ensure that their communications (i.e. executive newsletters, e-mails, presentations, etc.) to the organization, business, and industry have powerful impact and are carried out flawlessly. You will be on point to ensure that content, deliverables, demos, and supporting materials are compelling, consistent with other executives’ communications, and reinforce the Microsoft IT story and value proposition to the organization, business, and industry. Your success in this position is measured in the following key areas: ·  Effective, direct working relationship with senior leaders to become their trusted communications advisor ·  Talent for empowering senior leaders to move the business forward by providing them with a powerful messaging strategy and robust communications portfolio·  Ability to strategically and proactively drive to market a communications plan for your senior leaders, leveraging appropriate marketing vehicles, working with cross-group constituencies, and ensuring high quality content that tells a compelling IT story ·  Timely and detailed executive preparation across key communications engagements ·  Quality and impact of final content, including presentations and supporting elements, such as demos and videos ·  How well you work with divisions across IT and the business to craft and deliver meaningful, creative content that supports not only the senior leaders, but also the broader IT communications/business objectives ·  Work across the group to ensure linkage of communication plans, calendars, and key events ·   Stay abreast of business strategy and direction, and collaborate with peers to ensure consistent messaging across the organization  Job Requirements:·  Extensive cross-group communication and coordination skills ·  Excellent written and verbal communication skills ·  Ability to understand complex business strategy and technology and translate this into understandable and compelling messages, presentations, and demos ·  Process-focused aptitude to manage projects with many moving parts, people, and organizations ·  Ability to drive process improvements and develop clear SLAs and workflows ·  Ability to perform with maximum effectiveness in a dynamic and highly demanding work environment Natural inclination to stay abreast of change in our broad IT solution and service delivery Microsoft offers an excellent benefits package to full-time employees including medical, dental, vacation, employee stock purchase plan, and 401k, plus some great extras including: our 24-hour nurse line, stay fit program, product discounts, and paid infant care leave. All part of our commitment to our most important asset: our employees. For more information about life at Microsoft, please visit our careers website. Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer (EOE) and strongly supports diversity in the workforce. ;