Microsoft Data Center Procurement – Load Banks & Commissioning Equipment Manager 

India, Telangana, Hyderabad 

653454701

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Microsoft Cloud Operations and Innovation (CO&I) is the team behind the cloud.  Within CO&I, the Engineering Procurement and Construction (EPC) teamis responsible fordelivering core datacenter infrastructure for Microsoft’s cloud business. The MS portfolio consists of complex, multi-disciplinary, large scale, multi-year datacenter construction and lease projects. We are looking for a passionate, high-energy individual to help build the cloud datacenters that power the world’s largest online services.  In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positivelyour culture every day.

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Management, Supply Chain or related field and 10+ years’ experience in Project Management, Supply Chain and Operations.

• Strong commercial understanding of Product & Capital Equipmentprocurement

• Extensive experience in sourcing, procurement and supplier management is an essential requirement for this role.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in industry like Data Center / Infrastructure / Power / Oil & Gas industry managing large capital projects with Contractors & Equipment supplier management.

• Experience in Supply Chain Management, Commercial Negotiations/Contracting and external Supplier/contractor Management across multiple projects spread acrossdifferent locations.

• Experience with Equipment manufacturing processes and assembly, Technology transfer and proven projects execution.

• DCRegionalProcurementManagerforCommissioning Equipmentis responsible forbuying/managingLoad Banks & otherCommissioningequipment required during Commissioning and installations of Data Center equipment

• purchasingareas into request for information and/or request for proposal processes.

• Leads contract negotiations for several purchasing categories cross-functionally and ensures that price,capacity, and strategic business needs are met.

• Applies an understanding of procurement policies.

• Ensures adherence to policy, educates stakeholders and suppliers on policy compliance, and drives the remediation and resolution of sourcing issues.

• Collaborates with senior Procurement stakeholders to ensure awareness of Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and/or defined milestones and deliverables, and to drive timeliness and consistency across supply chain requests.

• issues related to procurement requests and collaborates with business and engineering partners.

• Creates contract execution plans, defining control processes and approaches.

• Develops and leads pricing and negotiation strategies for several complex purchasing categories and gains C-suite support for strategies both internally and externally.

• highly complexbusiness areas orpurchasingcategories.Managessupplier activity and progress across multiple accounts and complexpurchasingcategories,developingand executing supplier account plans detailing mutual priorities and focus for the supplier relationship for the upcoming period.

Compliance

• Collaborates with senior Procurement 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.

• Serves as subject matter expert on the SLA, milestones, and/or deliverables, and manages any escalations related to policy non-compliance.

• Leverages data toanticipateand mitigate risk and negative business impacts by ensuring compliance with agreed-upon terms, communicating delay potential to stakeholders and driving the execution of contingency plans cross-functionally and/or cross-regionally as needed.

• Applies an end-to-end understanding of procurement processes and policies and the tradeoffs between Microsoft and key suppliers to drive business impact by applying market intelligence to define, develop, and influence the adoption of channel strategies cross-functionally and/or cross-regionally that enable scalable execution with consistency, accuracy, quality, and timeliness of delivery.

• Leads decision making around the execution and evolution of various workstream processes,identifiesand seeks solutions to compliance areas/gaps, and influences leadership to drive change internally and/or externally.

• Ensures adherence to policy, educates stakeholders and suppliers on policy compliance, and drives the remediation and resolution of sourcing issues. Influences current and future policy direction as needed to mitigate risks across business units and enable suppliers to meet business requirements.

• maintains, and executes multi-year sourcing strategy for severalcomplex,projects and/orpurchasingopportunities,optimizingcosts, ensuring continuity of supply and/or services, and driving benchmarking and alignment across Microsoft.

• Works cross functionally with senior stakeholders andconsultswith other industry experts to inform strategy with a global view.

• Leverages end-to-end sourcing and procurementexpertiseand benchmark data toidentify, revise, and influence the definition of business requirements, manage conflicting priorities and tradeoffs, and resolve escalations to execute on sourcing strategies and solutions.

• Integrates business specifications and sourcing strategies for several complex purchasing areas into request for information (RFI) and/or request for proposal (RFP) processes, models operationally efficient supplier management practices, and is accountable for strategic oversight of multi-tier supplier selection.

• Manages, andimproves uponsupplier evaluation frameworks,identifiesgaps or trends across supplier strategic business and performance reviews, and drives corrective actions.

• Partners with suppliers to drive innovation and improvement, transform operational capabilities, and proactivelyidentifyand manage risk.

• Evaluates procedural, operational, and/or environmental factors across categories, accounting for key stakeholder relationships and dependencies, analyzing root causes of issues, linking insights to improvement strategies, and influencing the adoption of needed improvements.

• Leads contract and price negotiation activities for one or more purchasing categories cross-functionally and ensures that price, capacity, and strategic business needs are met, while also reflecting Microsoft's cross-functional engagements with suppliers.

Data Center Procurement & Equipment Supplier Management

• Lead Sourcing strategy forCommissioningEquipmentfor complete APAC region

• Lead Regional Bids/Negotiationsfor theAPACcommissioning

• “Rental/Microsoft ownedCommissioning equipment”strategy tooptimizethe costwithoutimpactingProject schedule

• LRPrequirements and help place POs as per Lead-times

• Lead “Fleet Management” discussion (commercial & Contractual) with suppliers

• Supplier Evaluation & Onboarding

• Creates and delivers contract execution plans, defining control processes and approaches that drive consistent alignment with business requirements and support continuous improvements in the execution of contracts within and across organizations.

• Serves as a primary point of contact foridentifyingand resolving internal and/or external contract delivery, execution risks, and roadblocks.

• Engages the supply base to process price validation and deliveraccuratepricing to relevant team(s) for purchase order creation.

• highly complexand/or undefined business areas orpurchasingcategories with cross functional leadership including product design, quality, and business teams, to share best practices, influence decision-makers, drive action, andoptimizesourcing strategies, business requirements,spend, and short- and long-term priorities.

• Facilitates industry and ecosystem engagements and provides expert consultation with leadership teams on sourcing decisions and optimizations that can be deployed at scale.

• Develops and leads pricing and negotiation strategies for several complex purchasing categories, 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 andcoachesothers on negotiation best practices across internal sourcing teams.

• supplier activity and progress across multiple accounts and complexpurchasingcategories,developingand executing supplier account plans detailing mutual priorities and focus for the supplier relationship for the upcoming period.