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Director Business Strategy, CAIP Planning Lead

Microsoft · Redmond, WA, US; US · On-site

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Workstream owners remain accountable for their recommendations and outcomes, while the Planning Lead challenges assumptions, resolves competing priorities, and elevates material trade-offs to executive sponsors to ensure the final plan reflects a coherent strategy and positions CAIP for growth.

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Workstream owners remain accountable for their recommendations and outcomes, while the Planning Lead challenges assumptions, resolves competing priorities, and elevates material trade-offs to executive sponsors to ensure the final plan reflects a coherent strategy and positions CAIP for growth. Own the end-to-end annual planning cycle for CAIP: translate company and commercial planning guidance into the CAIP planning approach, and define workstreams and ownership across strategy, revenue and investments, resource design, blueprint and sales model, territories, compensation, GTM motions, partner strategy, Marketing, tooling, and landing. Build and maintain the master workback, converting central planning milestones, CAIP milestones, executive review dates, Finance deadlines, and operational cutoffs into a single source of truth for cadence, deliverable timing, and stakeholder engagement. Create and run planning pods and working groups that bring BA owners, GTM leads, Marketing, Finance, and Operations together, each with clear ownership, deliverables, timelines, and escalation paths. Coordinate stakeholder input and reviews through recurring forums planning lead reviews, GTM...

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