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This opportunity will allow you to bring your aspirations, talent, potential and excitement for the journey ahead.\nAs a Sales Operations Specialist, you will help oversee sales operations planning processes using qualitative and quantitative methods. You will collaborate with stakeholders to align, refine, and improve sales operations planning and execution. This opportunity will allow you to analyze and interpret data to provide recommendations for addressing sales performance blockers in conjunction with Sales Excellence as you will also leverage your knowledge related to tracking and monitoring as well as performance of pipelines, scorecards and sales plays.\nMicrosoft’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. 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