Microsoft Supply Chain Planning Manager 

Taiwan, Taoyuan City 

945663517

The Cloud Sourcing, Spares, Security and Sustainability (CS4) organization within CSCP manages sourcing, strategy, and suppliers to provide cost, flexibility, and supply advantages that enable our org to become a world-class supply chain. Well-defined and executed sourcing and supply chain management ensures reliable, on-time performance and optimized cost, prevents urgent and unplanned investments, and provides accurate and timely information across the supply base and internally across the infrastructure organization. Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and delivering a trusted experience to customers and partners worldwide.

We are looking for a Supply Chain Planning Manager to proactively manage demand and supply activities for specific hardware products within the cloud space. In this role, you will perform complex forecast analysis for spare parts and/or manage supply side purchase activities to ensure positioning of Hardware at global scale. In this role you may also manage and enable proactive Spare Parts Life Cycle decisions by influencing and executing cross-fucntional activities.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain Management, Operations Management, Supply Chain Analytics, or related field AND 3+ years supply planning, operations, supply chain, indirect supply planning, technology-related supply chain, sourcing and manufacturing, or related experience
  • OR Master's Degree in Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain Management, Business, Operations Management, Supply Chain Analytics, or related field AND 1+ year(s) supply planning, operations, supply chain, indirect supply planning, technology-related supply chain, sourcing and manufacturing, or related experience
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 1+ year demonstrated experience in supply chain engineering in a complex, and/or large-scale manufacturing supply chain.
• 1+ year experience in Planning and Operations and/or maintenance & repair operations environments (service & repair).

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:

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain Management, Operations Management, Supply Chain Analytics, or related field AND 5+ years supply planning, operations, supply chain, indirect supply planning, technology-related supply chain, sourcing and manufacturing, or related experience
  • OR Master's Degree in Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Business, Supply Chain Management, Operations Management, Supply Chain Analytics, or related field AND 4+ years supply planning, operations, supply chain, indirect supply planning, technology-related supply chain, sourcing and manufacturing, or related experience
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 2+ years of experience in supply chain planning and/or operations, especially in service & repair settings.
• Familiar with supply chain hardware engineering, including demand and supply factors and operational execution.
• Excellent technical problem solving and communication skills, with a focus on process engineering and automation.
• Adaptable to a fast-paced dynamic environment with changing requirements.
• Proficient with Microsoft applications including Excel, Word, PowerPoint.
• Proficient with world-class inventory management tools such as SAP/IBP.
• Demonstrated inventory planning expertise, including multi-echelon inventory optimization.
• Understanding of supply chain hardware engineering including gathering, analyzing, and defining demand and supply variables and operational execution.
• Expertise in deployment & service of high-performance, highly available, large scale server hardware, network device and related technologies, preferably in tier one cloud technology providers
• Knowledge and understanding of cloud infrastructure and datacenter issues such as physical space, rack units, break-fix requirements and incident management.
• Demonstrated ability to manage competing priorities, and work well under pressure with minimal guidance

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 May 19, 2025.

• Execute supply chain demand and supply and/or product Life-cycle activities in support of Global Datacenter Operations.
• Enable demand and supply data, processes and systems & tools to optimize inventory globally, and manage cross functional activities across operations, engineering, and other key stakeholder groups.
• Program manage key strategic and transformational initiatives.
• Build strong working relationships across multiple disciplines and teams.
• Drive analysis and optimization of spares parts inventory and will help automate solutions and scale over time.