About

• Overview
• Come build community, explore your passions and do your best work at Microsoft. This opportunity will allow you to bring your aspirations, talent, potential and excitement for the journey ahead.
• As a Partner Marketing Specialist, you will plan and oversee partner-centered learning across solutions/lines of business. This opportunity will allow you to create and drive solutions strategies/content with long-term partner leads and internal/external stakeholders. You will partner with internal teams to guide data driven plans including growth targets, partner capacity, capability and projections. You will help define and develop marketing/merchandising strategies to ensure market, channel, partner readiness for new solution/offering launch. You help design, execute and localize end-to-end partner experiences by leveraging marketing assets and through the assistance of other teams.
• Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

• Responsibilities
• You will synthesize and consolidate information gathered from research in order to inform partner strategy and gain competitive insights, in line with established standards and policies and contribute to the mapping of accounts with partner solutions and sales plays.
• You will execute solutions strategies/content roadmaps with partners and internal team members (e.g., Partner Development Manager [PDM], Channel Manager) based on research and foundational understanding of the customer's/partner’s financials and strategic priorities/needs.
• You will help execute strategies to ensure market readiness for new solution/offering launch with managerial guidance and use foundational field knowledge to provide feedback to cross-team stakeholders on how products and processes may be improved to better serve partners/customers or internal stakeholders.
• With assistance, you will manage allocated marketing funds and budget spend in collaboration with agencies and partners to help ensure allocated budget is properly spent, while considering mutual business objectives and goals with partners.
• You will conduct analyses to measure success metrics of products/projects and may assist in pulling and collecting data and metrics to complete analyses.
• You will contribute towards establishing trusted partner marketing relationships in order to work towards mutual business objectives and alignment to partner's priorities to establish trust and credibility.
• You will embody our culutre andvalues.

• Qualifications
• Required Qualifications (RQs)
• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Marketing, Business Development, Business Management, Communications, or related field
• OR equivalent experience
• Fluency in English (spoken and written)
• You are legally authorized to work in the country where this role is based (through citizenship, a valid visa, or a work permit).
• Preferred Qualifications (PQs)

• This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

• Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. 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 with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.