Senior Business Value Creation Lead in Reading

The Frontier Transformation Framework helps our customers become Frontier Firms: organizations where AI is not a tool added to the business but part of the operating system the business runs on. The single biggest reason AI programs stall is not the technology; 95% of AI pilots fail to deliver meaningful P&L impact because they are deployed without a value hypothesis, measure the wrong things, or never baseline before building. Value Creation and Management is the discipline that closes that gap, turning AI from a cost center with unclear returns into a tracked investment with board-level visibility.

The Frontier Transformation team is how the Microsoft Frontier Company delivers this: a small, senior human-agent team in which each member carries one of the Framework's eight capabilities into the customer, directs a set of digital co-workers to deliver at a scale headcount alone could not, and is designed to fade into a customer counterpart who can carry the work forward.

We are seeking a highly motivated Value Creation Lead to define, design, and prove the business value of AI and agentic investment across strategic customer engagements. In this role, you will own the Value Realization Framework end to end: surfacing where AI investment aligns with a customer's strategic objectives, building the value hypotheses and investment cases that unlock funding, declaring the measurement approach before anything is built, and proving realized outcomes against baselines once solutions are live. You will operate at the intersection of finance, business strategy, engineering, and field delivery, working directly with CFOs, executive sponsors, account teams, Industry Business Architects, and delivery pods.

This is a role for people who are equally comfortable in a CFO-led value workshop and in the detail of a P&L model, who can move from strategic ambition to a defensible financial figure, and who are energized by making value real rather than anecdotal. You will help customers see, fund, and capture the value of becoming a Frontier Firm, while shaping the reusable value patterns, benchmarks, and playbooks that scale this discipline across industries. If you are excited by the opportunity to make AI investment measurable, fundable, and provable, this role is for you.

Responsibilities

• Understanding Customer/Partner Technical Environment: Gathers and propagates customer/partner insights from a broad range of stakeholders as well as the main business sponsor that will help shape and form both the definition and ongoing execution of the project. Learns to adapt business models, plans, and solutions to insights.
• Architecture Design and Deployment: Leverages a structured approach to Architecture Projects using existing methodologies (e.g., Waterfall, Agile, Iterative) that make use of existing reference architecture and established architectural styles and design patterns.
• Practice Development: Contributes to generation of new and/or improvements to existing intellectual property. Provides input on which ideas should be culled.
• Trusted Advisor: Begins developing a network of internal/external relationships to build influence in addressing problems/blockers and facilitating additional views on the matter of interest.
• Thought Leadership: Shares ideas, insight, and technical input with virtual team members using a working knowledge of specific Microsoft architectures and other relevant products.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience building business cases, ROI and financial models, and value hypotheses that have secured investment or funding decisions.
• Experience defining KPIs and success metrics and measuring realized business outcomes against baselines.
• Experience working directly with senior business and finance stakeholders (including CFO or executive sponsors) to scope ambiguous problems and quantify business value.
• Demonstrable and deep analytical and quantitative skills, including financial modelling, scenario analysis, and sensitivity analysis.
• Ability to translate complex technical and AI concepts into clear business value, financial terms, and executive-ready recommendations.
• Proficiency with data analysis and reporting tools such as Excel and Power BI (or comparable BI/dashboarding platforms).
• Demonstrated ability to operate across finance, strategy, engineering, product, and delivery teams.
• Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Engineering, Computer Science, Data Science, or a related field OR equivalent experience.

While specific locations are highlighted, we are open to considering candidates from other locations across Europe based on business needs.

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled. Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.