Microsoft Senior Demand Planning Manager 

United States, Washington 

870249177

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Supply Chain, Information Technology (IT), Business, Operations, Finance, Accounting, Data Science, or related field AND 6+ 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.
• 5+ years’ experience in supply chain planning, demand forecasting, management consulting, operations management.

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

• Effective verbal and written communication along with effective interpersonal, and organizational skills
• Experience leading cross-functional processes with key stakeholders ex: Product groups, Finance, Sales & Marketing, Operations, Planning and Sourcing functions
• Ability to lead in ambiguous situations, and deal effectively with conflicting priorities and changes
• Effective influencing skills and ability to build relationships across multiple layers in the organization
• Proficient in business tools (e.g. word, power point slides), analytical tools (Excel modeling, SQL, etc.), and able to generate quality outputs
• Minimum of 7 years in demand forecasting or supply chain planning in Cloud computing forecasting or IT hardware supply chain MS/MBA preferred
• Experience in leading consensus demand planning process, and a proven track record of executing demand planning processes
• Experience working with Product / Engineering Groups Cloud / high tech supply chain experience is a plus

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Microsoft will accept applications for the role until May 13, 2024.

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.

In this role, you will be managing rolling 24-month cloud consumption forecast / plan for internal and external customers via a combination of statistical modeling and consensus demand planning.

The primary focus will be:

• Lead consensus demand planning process with Engineering Group, Customers, Finance, Field Sales, and Data Science teams to develop a rolling 24-month forecast as part of monthly planning process
• Manage demand for high priority events across Standard Compute
• Identify macro / micro industry trends affecting demand
• Own and report forecast accuracy, forecast bias and value-add metrics for your customers / business segments
• Explain drivers of month-over-month change, and corresponding financial impact
• Partner with Data Science and Data Engineering teams to continuously improve forecasting models, and with center-of-excellence to improve processes
• Partner with analytics team for automating reports and building management dashboards
• Perform ad-hoc analysis for critical business needs Bring in thought leadership to help management in building vision, and aligning with stakeholders

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