Microsoft Medium Term Planning Program Manager 

United States, Washington 

106023338

The Medium Term Planning Program Manager will help:

• Lead overall Azure capacity plan development, while impacting customer capacity availability and the bottom line cost. It is a role that has the rare opportunity to span across all service offerings at Microsoft.
• Managing a relationship with the internal planning organization, join a culture of continuous improvement & process excellence supported by customer-first thinking.
• Managing a relationship with the supply chain team, developing and driving policies and capabilities.
• Managing a relationship with the finance & engineering teams, aligning & delivering a global server plan that balances investment & affordability.
• Analyze and identify gaps in current midterm planning process. Drive process improvements and transformations with stakeholder alignment.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Supply Chain, Information Technology (IT), Business, Operations, Finance, Accounting, Data Science, or related field AND 4+ years supply chain, inventory management or sales operations experience, preferably in planning (demand/supply/forecasting), cloud industry experience, infrastructure, data science, and/or channel management experience

  • OR equivalent experience.

Other 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.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 8+ years' experience with cross functional coordination, including experience partnering with data scientists, developers, and program managers to drive continual improvement
• Leadership: You need to lead cross-functional teams on complex projects with many variables.
• Supply Chain Experience: Experience in planning, forecasting, designing or analyzing supply chain challenges
• Generating clarity: This is one of the most important aspects of what we do. Our job is to align everyone on the same plan and keep them there. This requires constant communication and diligence to squash any ambiguity.
• Bl, Metrics and Analytics: Are you able to identify themes and learnings out of data? Define the essence of a function and measure its success? Provide KPI that are clear to understand and can drive decision making.
• Communications and Influencing: Can you build relationships and influence people - from execs to individuals, across business and technical disciplines? Are you equally adept at leading cross¬ functional meetings or building rapport and personal connection in 1:1 conversation
• Significant analytical depth supported by experience with several of the following: SQL; advanced Excel modeling; statistical tool kits such as R, MiniTab, or SAS; data-lakes; Kusto; PowerBI. Proven experience analyzing data, then aggregating and visualizing it for executive audiences.
• Technical fluency including basic understanding of Cloud concepts: large scale platforms, distributed services, hardware, and data centers

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:Microsoft will accept applications for the role until June 30, 2024.

• Lead planners in different resource types to develop a capacity plan that meets customer needs, while maintaining compliance to supply and execution policies, throughput capacities and contractual requirements.
• Providing a clear and prioritized signal to the end to end execution teams
• Own the relationship with the supply chain and execution team. Set flexibility and throughput targets, while also comprehending and incorporating their capabilities and constraints.
• Optimizing the plan for availability, revenue and cost.
• Partner with engineering-specific planners, supply chain, finance, data center operations, cloud server hardware, S&OP and networking teams to ensure all functions act in alignment with common goals.
• Envision and drive core measures as outputs from the group, as well as key input measures from other teams.
• Apply advanced analytics concepts toward rich insights and key financial and strategic decisions.
• Develop a prioritization framework across strategic projects, customer needs, risks and capacities and can solve for cost and other tradeoffs.
• Analyze and identify gaps in current midterm planning process. Drive process improvements and transformations with stakeholder alignment.
• Other
  • • Embody our and .