Softchoice

Manager – Operational Excellence

Softchoice
Posted 10/21/2026full-timeToronto • CanadaMid-LevelSenior💰 CA$100,000 - CA$110,000 per yearWebsite
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Demonstrates expertise in managing Microsoft licensing operations, ensuring compliance, accuracy, and alignment with customer commitments. Proven ability to lead high-performing teams, drive operational improvements, and effectively communicate with senior stakeholders.

Highest-signal resume keywords
Microsoft Licensing OperationsPeople LeadershipCompliance ManagementAnalytical Problem-SolvingCross-Functional Collaboration

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Lead, coach, develop, and retain a high-performing Microsoft Operations team
  • Establish objectives, expectations, accountabilities, and performance-monitoring practices
  • Manage staffing, workload allocation, scheduling, and coverage
  • Act as an escalation point for complex operational, customer, compliance, and people matters
  • Lead daily Microsoft licensing operations across quoting, contracting, ordering, amendments, renewals, and agreement maintenance
  • Ensure transactions are accurate, timely, compliant, and aligned with customer commitments and internal standards
  • Monitor scorecards, service levels, productivity, quality, capacity risks, process gaps, and recurring issues
  • Partner with Microsoft and internal teams to interpret licensing requirements and establish procedures, controls, training, and practices
  • Maintain transaction documentation, audit readiness, compliance evidence, and control effectiveness
  • Document, escalate, remediate, and monitor compliance findings, exceptions, and control failures
  • Identify and lead improvements to workflows, documentation, controls, reporting, tools, and automation
  • Partner with IT and operational improvement teams on business requirements and system changes
  • Establish and maintain standard operating procedures
  • Build relationships with Sales, Customer Success, Finance, Legal, Compliance, IT, Enablement, and Microsoft
  • Provide senior leaders with updates on performance, risks, compliance matters, and improvement priorities
  • Identify operational, compliance, financial, and customer risks and establish mitigation plans
  • Maintain operational reporting, process documentation, control ownership, decision records, and audit evidence
  • Contribute to operational planning, capacity planning, technology roadmaps, and business cases

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • At least three years of progressive experience in licensing operations, customer operations, sales operations, or a related technology environment
  • Demonstrated people-leadership experience, including coaching, performance management, talent development, and workload planning
  • Strong experience managing complex, high-volume, transaction-based operations
  • Practical knowledge of software licensing, contract processing, quoting, ordering, renewals, and agreement maintenance
  • Experience interpreting external program or partner requirements and translating them into internal processes and controls
  • Experience supporting compliance reviews, audits, operational controls, or risk-management activities
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including root-cause identification and issue resolution
  • Proven ability to work cross-functionally with Sales, Finance, Legal, Compliance, IT, Customer Success, and external partners
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, including communicating operational risks and requirements to senior stakeholders
  • Strong customer focus balanced with compliance, accuracy, financial risk, and contractual obligations
  • Post-secondary education in business, operations, technology, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant experience
  • Business improvement, project management, risk, compliance, or process-management certification is considered an asset
  • Microsoft licensing or comparable software-vendor program experience is strongly preferred
  • Experience supporting public sector or education customers, licensing transactions, contracts, or operational requirements is considered an asset
  • Criminal record check, education verification, and reference checks before starting

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Health and Dental Care
  • Employee & Family Assistance Program
  • RRSP/DPSP Retirement Savings Plan with Company Matching
  • Life and Disability Insurance
  • Vacation and Sick Leave
  • Holidays
  • Parental Leave
  • Volunteer Days
  • Bereavement Leave
  • Employee Discount Program
  • Flexibility to plan workdays
  • Competitive perks starting on day one
  • Remote onboarding
  • Interview and employment accommodation
  • Digital interviewing

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Hard Skills
Licensing OperationsContract ProcessingQuotingOrderingRenewalsAgreement MaintenanceOperational ControlsRisk ManagementProcess ImprovementAudit Readiness
Soft Skills
CoachingPerformance ManagementCommunicationCustomer FocusProblem-Solving
Certifications & Qualifications
Business Improvement CertificationProject Management CertificationRisk Management CertificationCompliance CertificationProcess Management Certification
Industry Keywords
Technology EnvironmentPublic SectorEducation CustomersOperational ReportingTransaction Documentation