Business Development & Strategy Analyst - Go Big - SMSG - Beijing Job (Beijing, CN)

Job Title: Business Development & Strategy Analyst

Of the 190+ countries where Microsoft operates, China represents our biggest growth opportunity. It currently has more than 450 million internet users and the largest PC and phone markets. If you are looking for an exciting and challenging role to help us accelerate growth in China, please join our expanding Sales and Marketing teams!

Purpose of the role:

§ China represents one of the Microsoft’s biggest growth opportunities. We are creating this role to better enable our company to focus on the near and long term growth strategies for China while delivering on the expectations of today. The role is to serve the needs of Microsoft overall, across the BGs and SMSG.
Roles and responsibilities:
§ Communicate and work with different BGs and Segments to define and validate data points and set business roles
§ Define and evaluate business analysis scope, solutions and recommendations based on assigned scope and topics with guidance from supervisor
§ Capable of using SQL BI to build financial model
§ Can independently collecting data from various sources from other functions and perform analysis to provide business insights
§ Provide prompt report of key insights to supervisors
§ Facilitate meetings by providing backup information of key analysis and insights

Requirements:

§ 5-8 years of related experience, proficient with SQL and Excel
§ Bachelor’s Degree (B.S./B.A.) above
§ "Business Leadership: excellent analytical problem solving skills, including developing industry trends, market insights, competitive dynamics and customer behaviors; abilities to develop quantitative modeling; solid project management skills for both internal teams, cross-functional virtual teams as well as teams that include external partners/customers/vendors
§ Marketing Leadership: Experience in Internal and External Communication both oral and written in English and Mandarin
§ Operational Excellence: Great orchestration, managing complex processes, Excellent ability to connect people, processes and drive cross-group collaboration
§ People Leadership: Experience leading without Position Power. Ability to drive consensus across conflicting groups
§ People Leadership: Impact and Influence
§ Excellent Analytical Problem Solving skills
§ Ability of Market Analysis and Opportunity Identification
§ Project Management
§ Interpersonal Awareness and Confidence

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer and supports workforce diversity.

GCR:CN:Sales:EN

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