Overview

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‍Come build community, explore your passions and do your best work at Microsoft with thousands of University interns from every corner of the world. This opportunity will allow you to bring your aspirations, talent, potential—and excitement for the journey ahead.

As a Sales Operations Specialist Intern, you will collaborate with stakeholders to align, refine, and improve sales operations planning and execution. You will analyze and interpret data to provide recommendations for addressing sales performance blockers with Sales Excellence. You will identify and implement solutions for processes that reduce redundancies, reduce manual work, or save time within Sales Programs.  

At Microsoft, Interns work on real-world projects in collaboration with teams across the world, while having fun along the way. You’ll be empowered to build community, explore your passions and achieve your goals. This is your chance to bring your solutions and ideas to life while working on cutting-edge technology.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees, we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

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This is an 8-month consecutive internship with start dates in April 2026

‍Responsibilities‍

• Learns the local knowledge of sales teams and analyzes data from sales execution to empower success and help address performance blockers across Customer Adds, Consumption, Pipeline, Scorecard, and Annuity. Leverages knowledge about and advises on one of the resources that support some areas such as tracking and monitoring, as well as performance of pipelines, scorecards, and sales plays.
• Learns and begins to execute about the process for local fiscal-year, cross-segment sales operations planning, using qualitative and quantitative methods for one component of across Territory Planning, Account Planning, FastStart, and/or Blueprint. Collaborates with others to align on sales operations execution. Tracks risk throughout the planning process. Assists in tool landing, orchestration, and follow up on completion.
• Ensures data quality checks and process across partnerships. Learns and begins to execute one component of partner management. This can include segmentation, quota, planning, co-selling, and/or transitions, and contributes with guidance from others.

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‍Qualifications‍

Required Qualifications:

• Currently pursuing a Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Marketing, Finance, Sales, Accounting, Information Systems, Social Sciences or related field.
• Must have at least one semester/term of school remaining following the completion of the internship.

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Preferred Qualifications:

• Ability to review/consume information and provide insights, hypothesis or conclusions  
• Verbal and written communication, analytical and presentation skills   
• Ability to scale business processes across a breadth of business and functions  
• Experience in sales, sales operations/management, account management, program management, business development, marketing, consulting, or a related field

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