# Small Medium Business (SMB) Demand Planner

**Company**: Microsoft Advertising
**Location**: Redmond
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: USD $119,800 – $234,700 per year (USD $158,400 – $258,000 per year in specific work locations)
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://microsoft.ai/job/small-medium-business-smb-demand-planner/
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_7ce3e752-33e

## Description

Your job is to deliver high-quality advertiser demand for available audience supply and advertising product opportunities on the Microsoft Advertising Platform. As a trusted advisor to field and operation teams, you will use analytical and collaborative skills to identify demand opportunities for acquisition and growth; share insights; drive programs and support prioritization.

Responsibilities:

* Convert supply and product opportunity areas into demand priorities for the SMB segment, done in collaboration with key stakeholders, and as part of overarching demand planning efforts.
* Drive growth activation plans and programs adapted to a range of service models (outsourced/through-partner, self-service), including target setting; leading enablement; communicating results; delivering retrospectives for ongoing improvements.
* Anticipate, validate and articulate product fit and implementation challenges from customer perspective – providing actionable insights.
* Problem solve and drives segment level correction of error efforts.
* Utilizes insights from customer cases and support tickets to proactively develop and communicate solutions to product and engineering teams.
* Identify and propose incentive/acceleration opportunities.
* Expands on the established planning framework by soliciting feedback, participating in v-team meetings, and evolving the team value proposition to key internal stakeholders.

Qualifications:

* Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, Math, Business, or related field AND 4+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development OR equivalent experience.

## Skills

### Required
- Supply and demand planning
- Collaboration
- Analytical skills
- Communication
- Problem-solving
- Product development
- Data analysis

### Nice to have
- Data science
- Mathematics
- Business
- Engineering