Microsoft DC Procurement Manager - Projects 

Malaysia, Johor, Johor Bahru 

955325936

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.

​​​​​​​Microsoft Cloud Operations and Innovation (CO&I) is the team behind the cloud. Within CO&I, the Engineering Procurement and Construction (EPC) team is responsible for delivering 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 positively impact our culture every day. ​​​​​​​

• DCProcurement Manager- Projectsis asite-basedrolewhichmaintainsand executes sourcing strategies for complex projects and/orpurchasingopportunities.

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

• 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.

• highly complexbusiness areas orpurchasingcategories.

• 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.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Management, Supply Chain or related field and 6+ years’ experience in Project Management, Supply Chain, and Operations.

• Strong commercial understanding of Product & Capital Equipment procurement.

• Extensive experience inSourcing, procurement andProjectmanagement is an essential requirement for this role.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Hyperscale data center or large building construction experience in an owner or general contractor

• appropriate contracting.

• High energy and drive to achieve results in midst of ambiguity and matrixed org.

• Excellent communicator that can interact with diverse groups across organizational levels.

• Ability to implement new processes and get buy in from a cross functional team.

• Must be able to drive& executesourcing strategy and supply chain execution for multiple categories.

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.

• 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.

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

• Works cross functionally with senior stakeholders andconsultwith 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.

• Manages, andimprovessupplier 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.

Data Center Procurement & Equipment Supplier Management

• OFCI Management & Quality Assurance:

• facilitatethe MEP/OFCI (Owner Furnish Contractor Installed) equipment once delivered to site, including inspections andappropriate signoffs.

• appropriate.

• Supplier Engagement & Performance:

• Manage post award site delivery scheduling, on-time delivery performance, and reporting.

• Communicate scheduling delays from OFCIequipmentsuppliersto relevant stakeholders.

• Oversee site specificProcurementperformance and collaborate with both internal and external partners to proactively resolve issues.

• Manage technical risk management of design including timelines, SLA/KPI’s to avoid disruption to site timelines

• Field ServiceTechnician/Engineer Management(OEM)

• “Field Technical Services Resource Manager”and oversee Supplier labor management in coordination with General Contractor,Scheduling Teams, and Internalsupply chain teams to align schedules and deliverables.

• “Field Technical Services Resource Manager”innegotiationsand manage any change orders for overtime, schedule compression and acceleration as needed.

• Change Order Management:

• Change OrderpostP

• partnerscross-functionally to resolve/escalate accordingly.

• Attend cost/change management meetingsafter delivery to ensure any changerorders of additional equipment are executed promptly and timely.

• Claimsnegotiationswith the detailed understanding of the contractual conditionsand partner withregionalclaims to settle or escalate.

Stakeholder Collaboration

• Drives early business engagements for highly complex and/or undefined business areas or purchasing categories with cross functional leadership including product design, quality, and business teams, to share best practices, influence decision-makers, drive action, and optimize sourcing strategies, business requirements, spend, and short- and long-term priorities.

• Manages 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.

• Trains external stakeholders during onboarding andidentifiesengagement programs to improve supplier performance to achieve business goals.