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LAYIQ - Senior Channel Operations Manager at Microsoft, Redmond, WA

Strategic Account Performance & Business Outcomes
Defines and owns strategic account and channel health metrics spanning demand quality, supply alignment, inventory, fulfillment, partner experience, sell-in, and sell-through outcomes.
Identifies forward-looking risks and opportunities from partner, market, financial, and industry signals and converts them into clear decisions and corrective actions.
Drives data-informed strategy adjustments, root-cause analysis, and continuous reporting improvements through advanced analytics and AI-enabled insights.
Operating Model & AI Transformation
Leads the transformation to proactive, outcome-based strategic account operations.
Identifies, pilots, operationalizes, and scales AI and agentic solutions, measuring success through productivity, speed, quality, customer experience, and cost impact.
Commercial Strategy & Channel Growth
Partners with Sales and Marketing while independently owning the operational outcomes required to deliver effective merchandising, sell-in, sell-through, and partner performance.
Establishes differentiated engagement models and reciprocal accountability with strategic retailers, distributors, and channel partners.
Executive Insights & Decision Intelligence
Translates complex and ambiguous data into account strategies, business trade-offs, executive recommendations, and measurable actions.
Improves forecast quality, signal convergence, order adherence, and decision velocity through analytics, automation, and AI-enabled workflows.
Builds organizational capability by coaching peers, establishing analytical standards, and embedding outcome-based reviews into the rhythm of business.
Strategic Partner Leadership & Joint Planning
Builds strategic partner relationships and leads formal collaborative planning, forecasting, and replenishment processes for priority accounts.
Leads recurring account-health and business reviews, reconciles partner and field signals at account and SKU level, and drives shared corrective plans before performance misses occur.
Influences partner strategies and extends proven AI, automation, and innovation capabilities into joint operating processes.
Demand-to-Delivery & Inventory Optimization
Optimizes end-to-end demand, supply, order, fulfillment, and inventory processes to improve customer outcomes and operational scalability.
Balances customer demand, supply availability, revenue and margin commitments, and inventory risk to improve financial performance and cost to serve.
Leads root-cause analysis and postmortems and converts regional learning into standardized, repeatable, and increasingly touchless global capabilities.

Senior Channel Operations Manager

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