The Azure Core team has an immediate opening for an experienced, energetic and friendly Business Administrator to join our growing engineering and program management teams based in Atlanta. The ideal candidate is someone who can navigate new challenges with confidence, change direction quickly, and respond with a calm sense of urgency in a fast-paced environment.  This position requires a strong attention to detail, the ability to self-direct, and a passion around making organizations better through, initiative, collaboration and commitment.  

The successful candidate will have excellent communication, organizational and interpersonal skills.  They will be able to manage ambiguity, maintain professional and positive interactions with others and be able to establish professional relationships and credibility with all internal and external contacts.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Calendar Management
• Arrange domestic and international travel
• Ensuring awareness and compliance with administrative operations policies and procedures
• Partner with support staff across the organization to ensure consistent experiences
• Coordinate catering, venue selection, and logistics for internal events, off sites, morale events, team all hands meetings, and celebration events
• Maintain relevant security groups and distribution lists
• Procurement of office supplies and equipment for team and new hires
• Headcount management and new employee onboarding
• Manage expense and budget reports for team and manager
• Space management and facilities requests
• Other projects as requested by executive and business teams
• Build and maintain good business relationships with partners and staff both internally and externally
• Maintain a level of leadership and professionalism that exemplifies Microsoft’s values through Respect, Integrity, and Accountability
• Consistently demonstrate a can-do customer service attitude

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• 4+ years of relevant work experience in administration.
• Excellent customer service and strong written and verbal communication skills
• Relationship building skills, business maturity, high degree of self-confidence
• Ability to prioritize multiple projects and problem-solving skills and following through on issues in a timely manner

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree
• Proficiency with Microsoft productivity software, including Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel, and Teams meetings. Excellent skills in all aspects of planning, collaboration, communications, analytical capabilities and high level of attention to detail and proactive awareness.
• Demonstrated skill of shifting approach in response to the demands of a changing situation
• Ability to deal with ambiguity, navigate uncertain situations, and drive for clarity
• Demonstrated strong capability in verbal and written communications skills
• Positive and impactful personality to join a fast passed and productive team

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check. This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.