Sourcing Procurement Manager - AI
Microsoft
Overview
Cloud Operations + Innovation (CO+I) is the engine that powers Microsoft’s core cloud platforms and services that millions of people use every day. With more than 95% of Fortune 500 business on Azure, 180+ million using Office 365, and millions using other services – all running on Microsoft's cloud infrastructure – CO+I builds and operates the foundation upon which Microsoft’s mission to empower every person and organization comes to life.
Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and delivering a trusted experience to customers and partners worldwide. We are looking for a passionate, high-energy individual to help build the network that powers the world’s largest online services.
Within CO+I, the Global Supply Chain team is responsible for establishing a supply chain that can meet the ever-growing Microsoft Cloud for our customers. We support a portfolio of complex, multi-disciplinary, multi-billion, multi-year datacenter construction and lease projects and operations of those assets. We are looking to fill the critical role of Sourcing Procurement Manager - AI.
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.”
This role is located either in one or all hub locations -or at site Mount Pleasant, WI.
Relocation support will be provided, if required.
Responsibilities
Responsibilities
Leads, maintains, and executes material management for several construction projects in the Metro performing purchasing responsibilities, ensuring continuity of supply and/or services.
Oversees price and procurement requests via workflow process or technology as applicable in support of product and service requirements, ensuring procedural compliance, and managing the resolution of highly complex pricing issues raised by other sourcing personnel.
Serves as a primary point of contact for identifying and resolving internal and/or external contract delivery, execution risks, and road blocks.
Leads the (RFI) and/or request for proposal (RFP) processes, manages supplier evaluation frameworks, and partners with suppliers to drive innovation and execution improvement.
Applies end-to-end understanding of procurement processes to drive business impact and leads decision-making around workstream processes.
Ensures adherence to policy and collaborates with senior stakeholders to drive consistency across supply chain requests. Manages procurement execution while ensuring procedural compliance.
Monitors the impact of complex change orders to the underlying business case, and partners cross-functionally to adjust impact models.
Develops negotiation strategies and facilitates early business engagements with cross-functional leadership.
Drives supplier and contractor performance management, including safety deliverables, by collaborating with internal and external stakeholders and providing timely feedback.
Compliance
Ensures adherence to policy, educates stakeholders and suppliers on policy compliance, and contributes to the remediation and resolution of sourcing issues.
Identifies opportunities to adapt policy as needed to mitigate risk and better enable suppliers to meet business requirements.
Collaborates with stakeholders to ensure awareness of Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and/or defined milestones and deliverables, and to drive timeliness, accuracy, quality, and consistency across supply chain requests.
Communicates delays to stakeholders, and independently proposes and executes contingency measures.
Leads periodic Microsoft-driven supplier audits against policy/contractual requirements in the metro.
Ensures the governance model maintains up to date sourcing and supplier data.
Procurement and Contracts
Route contracts and Change Orders via workflow process or technology in support of product and service requirements. Creates and delivers contract execution plans, defining control processes and approaches that drive consistent alignment with business requirements and supports continuous improvements in the execution of contracts within and across organizations.
Serves as a primary point of contact for identifying and resolving internal and/or external contract delivery, execution risks, and road blocks.
Ensures supplier performs the work in accordance with requirements set forth in the contract.
Processes or supports stakeholder procurement requests for purchasing categories via engagement and/or leveraging workflow process or technology, where applicable in support of product and service requirements with minimal guidance.
Resolve and escalate the resolution of pricing issues to senior sourcing team.
Leads effort to ensure supplier performs the work in accordance with requirements set forth in the Purchase Order.
Stakeholder Collaboration
Develops and leads pricing and negotiation strategies for several complex projects, ensures that strategies clearly articulate tradeoffs, roles, and responsibilities across parties, and gains C-suite support for strategies both internally and externally.
Anticipates negotiation setbacks, proactively drives action to mitigate contract disagreements, and coaches others on negotiation best practices across internal sourcing teams.
Drives early business engagements for complex business areas or purchasing categories with cross-functional leadership including product design, quality, and business teams, to define and drive action on supply solutions and strategies, business requirements, optimal sourcing spend, and priorities.
Shares expertise to advise cross-functional teams on sourcing decisions.
Qualifications
Required/minimum qualifications
- Master's Degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, Data Analytics, Business, Finance or related field AND 4+ years experience in data science/analytics, finance, project management, supply chain, and/or operation
- OR Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, Data Analytics, Business, Finance or related field AND 6+ years experience in data science/analytics, finance, project management, supply chain, and/or operation
- OR equivalent experience.
Background Check Requirements:
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:
Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
While not required, we also look for the following Preferred Qualifications:
Additional or preferred qualifications
- Master's Degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, Data Analytics, Business, Finance or related field AND 8+ years experience in data science/analytics, finance, project management, supply chain, and/or operation
- OR Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, Data Analytics, Business, Finance or related field AND 12+ years experience in data science/analytics, finance, project management, supply chain, and/or operation
- OR equivalent experience.
- Hyperscale data center or large building construction experience in an owner or general contractor capacity
- Knowledge of data center industry and experience managing a variety of project delivery.
- Drive to deliver results in midst of ambiguity and matrixed org.
- Ability to prepare and process purchase orders.
- Effective communicator that can interact with diverse groups across organizational levels.
- Ability to leverage and implement new processes.
- Understanding of sourcing strategy and supply chain execution for long lead items across multiple categories.
Sourcing and Category Management IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $116,900 - $203,600 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $148,400 - $222,600 per year.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
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. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.