Business Operations: Fall Co-op Internship - Greater Toronto Area, Canada - Microsoft

Microsoft

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Greater Toronto Area, Canada

2 weeks ago

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Sophia Lee

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Description

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At Microsoft, Interns work on real-world projects in collaboration with teams across the world, while having fun along the way.

You'll be empowered to build community, explore your passions, and achieve your goals. This is your chance to bring your solutions and ideas to life while working on cutting-edge technology.

The internship is designed not only for you to do great work with the opportunity to learn and grow, but to experience our culture full of diverse community connection, executive engagement, and memorable events.

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Responsibilities
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Business Program Management

As a Business Program Management Co-Op Intern, you will be working with a variety of stakeholders from across the company to craft, analyze, orchestrate, and improve various programs and processes at the strategic level.

Performs non-technical project completion using an internal customer perspective, typically from initiation through delivery.

Coordinate cross-functional teams through meetings and progress measurement activity which bring distinct, specific projects to completion both on time and within budget.

Responsibilities
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Assists others in performing program landscape research and analysis (e.g., internal and/or external market, sales, delivery), forecasting, and examining business trends (e.g., customer feedback and expectations) to identify audience size and program scope, stay current, agile, and competitive.
With oversight from others, contributes to the direction and strategy from leadership regarding business area of expertise in order to help execute plans that shift current priorities to new organizational initiatives and objectives, and influences others to change behavior accordingly. Learns to define vision and strategy for change, broad and specific impact, and the flow of communication to the organization.
Learns how to define and track the success criteria and performance metrics (e.g., Objectives and Key Results [OKRs] and Key Performance Indicators [KPIs]), such as quality, adoption, usage, impact, and effectiveness for the program.
Assists others working with crossfunctional (e.g., organizational, product, business) stakeholders (e.g., Engineering) to design programs from initiation to delivery.

Qualifications
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Minimum Qualifications
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Available for an 8 month consecutive internship starting August 2023.
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Currently pursuing a bachelor's degree in Business, Operations, Finance, or related field with at least one quarter/semester to complete after internship

Preferred Qualifications

Formal training in project and process management, financial accounting, business strategy and/or operations.
Displays strong stakeholder and relationship management across senior leaders, partners and customers.
Ability to understand business metrics, customer and market trends.
Excellent verbal and written communication, analytical and presentation skills.

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