In Consumer Sales Organization (CSO) our purpose is to earn fans and drive growth by building emotional connections to delight and empower everyone. We engage with consumers globally throughout their shopping journeys, navigating both physical storefronts and digital visits across Direct and Partner Channels in Gaming, Windows, M365 and Surface. Together with our ecosystem partners, we strategize and implement plans for customer engagement and economic growth.

As a member of our team, you’ll be part of growing a multi-billion-dollar business, charting new areas of innovation, and impacting billions of lives around the world. You also will be a part of a culture centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. If that appeals to you, it’s an exciting time to be here in CSO.

As the PARTNER MARKETING MANAGER – Japan (DEVICE & CREATIVITY CSA), you will be responsible for the partner marketing plans and activities with Japan retail partners for Windows, M365 and Surface products.  Sitting within the Consumer Channels and Partner Marketing team in Japan, you will execute on product and channel marketing priorities within the partners, in order to drive revenue and profitable growth with those partners.  This opportunity will allow you to develop negotiation, business acumen and marketing skills and also develop strategic long term, full funnel marketing plans with partners.   

In this role, you will build full-funnel partner marketing plans, creative campaigns and relevant experiences, which will deliver ROI and meet sales targets.  You’ll be a subject matter expert for Devices and Creativity solution areas which includes our Windows, Surface and M365 products and services. You will understand the unique propositions and consumers within each of our retail partners.  You’ll partner with channel sales teams to influence the design of unique Microsoft experiences with Japan partners, activating omnichannel strategies, building partner capability and delivering joint value with our partners. Success is measured by campaign effectiveness/ROI, partner satisfaction, conversion, sell-through and brand love. 

You will own the planning of marketing investment strategy and marketing mix with the partners. You will develop deep relationships with our partner’s marketing leaders and will be responsible for driving partner neogotiations and maximizing impact across partner marketing vehicles, programs and platforms. You will have have end-to-end responsibility for marketing campaign planning & execution, including the marketing calendar, negotiating in-store experiences/platforms and enabling digital marketing & transformation on partner.com. You will also work closely with Partner Readiness & Influence Leads to drive conversion online and in-store through training, evangelism and assisted sales motions.

By joining the Consumer Channel & Partner Marketing team, you’ll be part of a cross-functional team that’s focused on driving full-funnel marketing for an exciting ecosystem that continues to grow. As the owner of partner engagement, you’ll have the opportunity to share feedback around the partner trends, capture learnings and establish campaign best practices, leveraging the global infrastructure for support and shared platforms.

This role is flexible in that you can work up to 40% from home based on proximity to a Microsoft office.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.