Business Development Manager

Microsoft; Redmond (WA); On-site; USD 85,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Microsoft is seeking a Business Development Manager focused on D365 Commerce, responsible for driving strategic partnerships and managing execution plans. The ideal candidate will leverage their experience in negotiation and strategic planning to expand Microsoft's reach in the market. This role requires a strong background in business development or related fields, ideally in the technology sector, along with relevant educational qualifications.

Qualifications

• 3+ years relevant experience in business development, sales, or related field.
• Experience in structuring and negotiating strategic alliances.
• 6+ years in technology or technical roles preferred.

Responsibilities

• Develops strategic partnership strategies critical for growth.
• Leads negotiation across deal stages and manages stakeholders.
• Identifies high-priority partnership opportunities.

Skills

Relationship Building

Strategic Thinking

Negotiation

Analytical Skills

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Business

Master's/Advanced Degree (Preferred)

Job description

Microsoft is on a mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world.

One of the company’s top imperatives is to ensure that we are leading in Business Applications and growing share through generative AI. Come join the team leading high-impact strategic partnerships in Business Applications that drive business process innovation through generative AI. The Business Applications Business Development Team drives strategic partnerships and acquisitions to accelerate growth for Microsoft Dynamics 365 SaaS applications. Microsoft Dynamics 365 applications serve Fortune 500 enterprises in Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), now enhanced with Copilot and Agents.

As a Business Development Manager, you will be primarily focused on our D365 Commerce product area, responsible for developing partnership strategies and identifying and executing on partnerships such as 3P Agents, which are critical to our growth. You will also work with the Business Applications Business Development Team by contributing to partnership strategies and deals developed for our other Dynamics 365 product areas.

Responsibilities

We are seeking a Business Development Manager who will be responsible for the following key areas:

Customer and Partner Focus

• Leverages internal and external network to develop new strategic relationships with executive business and technical decision makers; develops relationships as a trusted advisor for a particular line of business; provides industry insights internally.
• Articulates the value of Microsoft solutions in the context of the customer's perspective, leveraging knowledge of customer and partner business priorities and anticipating changes and actions to influence decision making, identify opportunities, and influence the product roadmap.
  
  

Partnership Strategy

• Executes and applies value propositions, amending the framework as appropriate to create partnerships with customers and partners. Influences internal stakeholders and partners and promotes the value of opportunities.
• Positions the Microsoft value proposition versus competitors and works with stakeholders to influence product roadmap to meet customer needs, leveraging knowledge of Microsoft and customer issues in conjunction with product/industry teams to establish a foundation for future opportunities in competitive situations through collaboration. Provides insight on industry and/or competitive trends and drives action based on insights.
• Identifies and collaborates with a diverse set of stakeholders to develop plans to source deals that target high-priority gaps across technology, product, business, and/or geography. Identifies opportunities and strategy; prioritizes target partners; utilizes data to inform internal and external decisions; provides input into recommendations on partners.
• Builds and share pipeline plans. Manages pipeline by identifying and promoting prioritizing, guiding, influencing processes that develop and deliver on pipeline opportunities and optimize resources to better deliver including preparing information for reporting to key stakeholders, identifying key stakeholders and reporting.
  
  

Negotiation

• Leads deal opportunities across deal stages. Represents Microsoft in key customer and partner interactions and recommends deal structures, leveraging experience to articulate key deal terms.
• Collaborates proactively to close opportunities and scale the business. Identifies opportunities for customized approaches. Identifies negotiation scenarios and manages executive escalations. Manages stakeholders to gain consensus and ensure internal alignment.
  
  

Deal Management/Governance

• Develops plans for managing deals, including communications and reporting with Microsoft stakeholders. Resolves blocking issues using known techniques.
• Collaborates with customers, partners, and Microsoft colleagues to develop post-deal governance and ensure design, communication, and alignment in creation and implementation of execution plans across a portfolio of deals within a particular domain; ensures customers and partners are prepared for implementation.
• Develops KPIs to demonstrate achieved business value. Troubleshoots complex issues and course corrects as appropriate. Articulates alternatives to blockers across a body of deals to develop consistent deal negotiation policy and drive application of scalable resolutions.
  
  

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Liberal Arts, Sciences, or related field AND 3+ years relevant work experience (e.g., investment banking, consulting, finance, marketing, corporate strategy, sales, venture capital, legal, business development, product management, project management, software development, Customer Relationship Management SaaS, Enterprise Resource Planning SaaS, or related field)
• OR equivalent experience
• Experience in structuring and negotiating complex strategic alliances or acquisitions.
  

Additional Or Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Liberal Arts, Sciences, or related field AND 5+ years relevant work experience (e.g., investment banking, consulting, finance, marketing, corporate strategy, sales, venture capital, legal, business development, product management, project management, software development, or related field)
• OR Master's/Advanced Degree in Business, Sciences, or related field and 2+ years relevant work experience (e.g., investment banking, consulting, finance, marketing, corporate strategy, sales, venture capital, legal, business development, product management, project management, software development, or related field)
• OR equivalent experience.
• 6+ years experience in the technology industry OR in a technical role (e.g., IT, Engineering).
• Financial modeling and market analysis experience with analytical skills
• Experience in structuring and negotiating complex strategic alliances or acquisitions.
  

Business Development IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $85,100 - $169,800 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 $112,000 - $185,300 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 June 16, 2025.

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Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Not Applicable

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Business Development and Sales

• Industries

  Software Development

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