Services Customer Operations Manager
Microsoft
Operations, Customer Service
San José Province, San José, Costa Rica
Responsibilities
- Partner with sellers to support Services contract renewals and new opportunities, ensuring deals are properly scoped, and positioned to succeed.
- Orchestrate across functions to remove operational blockers and maintain deal momentum/velocity.
- Apply disciplined deal reviews to validate that renewals and new opportunities are viable, appropriately sized, and aligned with customer needs and business standards.
- Support sellers through complex or ambiguous deal constructs by translating intent into executable, compliant deal structures.
- Enforce consistent execution of deal management practices and engagement models
- Drive effective stakeholder partnerships: demonstrated impact and influence skills, including cross-boundary collaboration and the ability to build solid relationships with individuals at all levels.
- Support the development and readiness of pricing, quotes, contracts, and related deal artifacts, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and compliance aligned to Microsoft business rules and policies.
- Manage contract readiness activities including templates, clauses, payment terms, approvals, and signature workflows.
- Ensure accurate and consistent representation of opportunities across Microsoft systems (e.g. MSX, MDM).
- Proactively identify and resolve issues related to contracting, invoicing, or collections in partnership with internal teams.
- Identify deal risks, execution gaps, or data hygiene issues early and drive resolution through appropriate channels.
- Anticipate downstream impacts of tooling, policy, or template changes on in‑flight deals and take early corrective action.
- Ensure adherence to business rules, approval requirements, and compliance policies throughout the deal lifecycle.
- Demonstrate a growth mindset by Identify recurring pain points, inefficiencies, or quality issues in deal execution and contribute actionable insights to continuous improvement initiatives.
- Leverage data and seller feedback to improve deal readiness, execution quality, and time‑to‑close.
- Adopt and support AI‑assisted or agentic workflows to reduce manual effort, improve operational accuracy, and increase deal velocity.
- Reinforce alignment to Services sales strategy and evolving operating model standards.
Qualifications
Required / MInimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Business, Operations, Finance, or related field AND 4+ years experience in program management, process management, or process improvement OR equivalent experience.
- This role requires proficiency in written, reading, and conversational English as all business operations as well as customer communications are conducted in English.
- Experience supporting deal execution, pre-sales, renewals management, sales operations, or delivery in a large, matrixed organization.
- Familiarity with Professional Services, enterprise services constructs, or complex commercial deal models.
- Experience in a customer service environment in a large, matrixed multinational company.
- Experience coordinating cross‑functional stakeholders across Sales, Finance, Legal, and Delivery.
- Demonstrated ability to manage ambiguity and apply judgment in complex operational scenarios.
- Exposure to continuous improvement methodologies (e.g., Lean, Kaizen, Six Sigma) or data‑driven process improvement.
- Passion for technology, AI skilling, innovation, and leading change
- On‑site presence expected at least three days per week, in alignment with team and business need.
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
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