Government Affairs M6

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Microsoft Corporate, External and Legal Affairs (CELA) has an opening for a motivated, skilled and talented government affairs professional to: (1) lead, manage and inspire the company’s government affairs team in France; (2) promote the company’s public policy objectives in a wide range of areas; and (3) support the France Area Vice President and wider Microsoft Customer & Partner Solutions (MCAPS) team in France in connection with their business goals and long term growth objectives. The role reports to the GM & Associate General Counsel for CELA France.

**Responsibilities**:

- ** External Relationships**:You advance Microsoft's public policy agenda and manage the implementation of initiatives by collaborating with key influencers, business owners and suppliers; you advance objectives and create advocates for Microsoft by establishing and deepening relationships and collaborating with key governmental, non-governmental, parliamentary and academic stakeholders.
- **Cloud Adoption and Public Policy Engagement**:You focus, in particular, on accelerating our customers’ move to the cloud and adoption of leading edge digital technologies and will devote considerable time externally focused on enhancing Microsoft’s reputation as a trusted, responsible and inclusive cloud services provider. In that connection, you and your team will be responsible for promoting an enabling public policy environment in France and across the EU (working in concert with CELA Europe’s government affairs team in Brussels) with a focus on new and emerging regulations relating to digital services, digital markets, data, and artificial intelligence. Further, you serve as a strategic partner to the Public Sector and other key business leads by supporting sales and market opportunities, building Microsoft's reputation as a globally trusted provider of technology, and assisting in navigating, minimizing, or removing roadblocks in order to drive business results.
- ** Team Leadership and People Management**: You will lead, manage, coach, and develop our talented team of Paris-based government affairs specialists and other legal and business professionals and inspire them to achieve high impact, top performance and individual growth.
- ** External Communications**: You collaborate with internal teams to ensure there is an effective communication strategy in place, overseeing internal/external events to drive government affairs objectives and social media engagement.
- ** Program Development**: You contribute to the formation of Microsoft's policy agenda to address complex governmental issues/affairs and business priorities and recommend solutions for advancing Microsoft's agenda while managing risks and consequences; you develop processes to facilitate program outreach and execution, assessing the feasibility of extending programs to advance Microsoft's policy agenda.
- ** Internal Collaboration**: You define a clear strategy for the short, medium and long term, share it with key internal stakeholders and update it at least on a quarterly basis. You support senior stakeholders by counselling on public policy, geo-political topics and/or cultural context; you prepare and provide data and materials for internal stakeholders; you lead and work collaboratively with teams to enable shared business objectives by leveraging project management approaches.
- ** CELA CPS Global Government Affairs Team**:You serve as an important part of CELA’s Global Government Affairs team and will be expected to make positive and active contributions to this diverse and dynamic team, including contributing to the setting of strategy, tactics and commitments in support of company and CPS long-term, annual and quarterly goals.
- ** Budget, Vendor and Outside Counsel Coordination**: You manage the CELA France government affairs budget and drive synergies in management and retention of outside strategic advisors and other vendors.

**Key experience/qualifications include**:

- ** Business Acumen**: The ability to understand the parts of the business and their interrelationships. This includes skill in understanding the industry, competition, and expected future developments and challenges, the business's competitive strengths and weaknesses, opportunities to grow the business and reduce operating costs; and awareness of the environment for opportunities.
- ** Corporate Partnerships**:The ability to develop and leverage strategic internal and external partnerships and networks to maximize the achievement of business goals. This includes the ability to lead key community outr