Executive Administrative Business Partner - Software & Digital Platforms; SDP

Position: Executive Administrative Business Partner - Software & Digital Platforms (SDP)
** Overview*
* As an Executive Administrative Business Partner supporting the Americas Enterprise Software & Digital Platforms (SDP) organization, you will serve as a trusted advisor and operational partner to the SDP Area leader, Account Team Unit (ATU) General Managers, and their leadership teams. You will enable leaders to focus on customers, partners, people, and business outcomes by bringing disciplined executive support, proactive coordination, and judgment to a complex, fast-moving organization.

** About Software & Digital Platforms*
* SDP partners with leading software companies, platform providers, and digital native organizations to accelerate innovation and achieve business outcomes through Microsoft solutions. The organization operates across strategically important accounts and depends on close alignment among sales, technical, customer success, partner, finance, human resources, communications, and corporate stakeholders.

** The Role*
* In this highly visible role, you will sit at the center of the SDP leadership operating system. You will manage executive calendars and travel; orchestrate leadership meetings, business rhythms, events, and communications; coordinate priorities across multiple ATU General Managers; and help ensure decisions translate into timely action.

This role requires someone who anticipates needs before they become issues, handles sensitive information with discretion, and creates clarity in ambiguous situations. This is not a purely transactional support role; it requires business acumen, executive presence, and the confidence to make informed recommendations on behalf of the leaders you support.

** Responsibilities*
* Responsibilities are expected to be delivered with enterprise judgment, a customer- and people-first mindset, and a consistent focus on enabling the ATU General Managers and SDP leadership team to operate as one connected organization.

** Executive Calendar Management and Meeting Readiness*
* + Manage complex calendars for one or more leaders, balancing customer and partner engagements, business reviews, people leadership, travel, and protected focus time.

+ Apply knowledge of leader preferences and SDP priorities to evaluate requests, resolve conflicts, identify delegates, and make informed recommendations.

+ Ensure leaders are fully prepared by coordinating participants, rooms, technology, agendas, pre-reads, briefing materials, and follow-up.

+ Partner with Chiefs of Staff, Business Managers, and Business Support peers to align calendars across the Area and ATUs, while handling sensitive or ambiguous situations with discretion.

** Rhythm of Business and Execution*
* + Understand and help operate the SDP rhythm of business, including leadership meetings, business reviews, planning cycles, talent cadences, and organization-wide communications.

+ Create and maintain annual and quarterly calendars, workback plans, checkpoints, and dependency tracking so ATU and Area commitments remain aligned.

+ Partner with Chiefs of Staff and Business Managers to prepare meeting materials, clarify decisions, assign actions, and maintain momentum between leadership forums.

+ Identify recurring friction, recommend simpler operating approaches, and adjust processes as business priorities or organizational needs change.

** Event and Leadership Engagement*
* + Own end-to-end planning for leadership offsites, all-hands meetings, executive engagements, customer or partner events, recognition moments, and team experience activities.

+ Develop workback schedules, checkpoints, budgets, supplier plans, communications, logistics, attendee experiences, and contingency plans that support the intended event outcomes.

+ Serve as the primary event contact, delegate tactical work as…