Project Officer - Junior Project Manager

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Overview

The Microsoft Enterprise Commercial team is seeking a highly collaborative, organized, and dependable Project Officer / Junior Project Manager to join our team. This role will focus specifically on the large strategic partnerships with Telstra and Spark.You will need to be detail-oriented and a master collaborator, ready to work with multiple stakeholders to prepare, plan and implement major program initiatives and monitor their progress to completion.

This is a junior position and could be a great fit for a recent graduate with relevant experience or someone currently working on commercially aligned projects. The role involves mapping out a program schedule and timeline and ensuring adherence, particularly regarding contracts and partnerships.

Approx. 9 - 12 month position max term - could extend

Responsibilities

• Core focus of this role is on the large strategic partnerships signed with Telstra and Spark, and ensuring the weekly/monthly governance runs smoothly.
• Effective orchestration and management of communications with key stakeholder groups (both internal and external)
• Map-out a program schedule and timeline and ensure it is followed, and manage daily operations that support and implement our current program objectives
• Work with account teams and leadership to assess and manage program risks
• Key team member to the Enterprise Commercial leadership team, ensuring we are capturing all the learnings and areas we need to follow up on/escalate- as part of our contract and partnership.
  
  

Qualifications

• Proven track record of being able to collaborate effectively with a wide range of stakeholders both internal and external to Microsoft
• Ability to think and operate broadly, supporting teams to drive key decisions and implementation
• Strong communication and organisation skills with an eye for detail
• A growth mindset with a desire to experiment, learn and adapt to challenging and ambiguous situations
  
  

Although this role is an individual within a team, you will need to assemble, guide and support virtual teams. Success in this role depends on collaboration with a broad group of people across Microsoft.

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