Investment Governance Lead - Windows Consumer Category

** Overview*
* The Investment Governance Lead owns the worldwide Windows Consumer investment portfolio and FY27 Growth Plan landing, combining strategic allocation, performance insights, rigorous governance, and execution. This  
** Investment Governance Lead - Windows Consumer Category
** individual contributor determines how investments should be allocated to maximize Windows unit and share growth; develops and tracks complementary ecosystem investments from OEMs, retailers, and silicon partners; translates sell-through, share, Average Selling Price (ASP), mix, inventory, and execution signals into investment decisions; manages field asks; and maintains explicit bridges from every material investment to business outcomes so leaders can move resources toward the highest-impact opportunities with speed and confidence.

** Responsibilities*
* Strategic Investment Portfolio, Allocation, and Forecasting

Own the worldwide Windows Consumer investment strategy and portfolio from allocation through quarterly landing, performance measurement, and reallocation.

+ Set strategic allocations across investments directing funding to the markets, partners, price bands, audiences, and sales motions with the strongest incremental Windows unit and share opportunity.

+ Develop and track ecosystem investment commitments from OEMs, retailers, and silicon partners, creating an integrated view of Microsoft and partner funding, timing, execution milestones, and expected outcomes.

+ Use share and volume scenarios, competitive signals, ROI evidence, partner leverage, and execution readiness to recommend initial allocations and in-year reallocations.

+ Manage the end-to-end Windows Consumer investment portfolio across investments, maintaining financial models, outlooks, trackers, and CFO forecast-cycle inputs, with a target of plus or minus 2 percent spend variance where applicable.

+ Maintain one trusted view of commitments, actuals, risks, opportunities, and remaining capacity by region, partner, program, and strategic priority.

+ Build scenarios that make tradeoffs explicit and give leaders early visibility to under-spend, over-spend, timing risk, and unproductive allocation.

Performance Insights, Signal Integration, and Decision Intelligence

+ Build the performance-insights layer for investment governance by connecting sell-through, market share, ASP, mix, inventory, promotional execution, campaign timing, and partner investment signals to allocation decisions.

+ Translate weekly and monthly performance trends into decision-ready insights for governance reviews, identifying where investment is working, where ROI is lagging, and where additional or reallocated funding could change trajectory.

+ Partner with Performance and Market Insights, Finance, regional Windows category leads, OEM account teams, and partner-marketing teams to define scorecards that measure investment impact consistently across regions, partners, price bands, device archetypes, and sales motions.

+ Create a post-investment learning loop that captures what worked, what did not, and why, then feeds those insights into the next allocation cycle, quarterly growth-plan landing, and executive tradeoff decisions.

Investment Governance and Controls

Create governance that is rigorous enough to protect the business and simple enough to enable it.

+ Define and run intake, approval, funding, authority, forecasting, and exception workflows in partnership with Corporate and Regional Finance.

+ Establish clear decision rights, control points, documentation standards, and audit-ready records across the investment lifecycle.

+ Ensure every material investment has a clear strategic purpose, accountable owner, expected outcome, measurement approach, and post-investment review.

+ Surface control gaps and unresolved exceptions promptly, with practical remediation plans and clear escalation paths.

Planning, Allocation, and Cascades

Translate strategy into executable investment plans for worldwide and regional teams.

+ Lead biannual RMI cascades across worldwide and regional organizations, including financial modeling, allocation scenarios, timelines, workback schedules, and field guidance.

+ Own the quarterly landing of FY27 Growth Plan investments, translating approved funding into executable regional and partner plans with clear milestones, spend profiles, dependencies, and accountable owners.

+ Connect allocations to Windows Consumer share, volume, conversion, quality, and strategic partner priorities rather than…