Microsoft Sourcing Engineer - Redmond 

United States, Washington 

985713914

Required Qualications:

• ​​2+ years experience in procurement, supply chain, sourcing, engineering, operations, manufacturing, or relevant sales-related roles, including internship experience
  • ​​OR Bachelor's Degree (or currently pursuing a Bachelor’s Degree) in Business, Supply Chain Management, Engineering, Materials Science, or related field
  • ​​OR equivalent experience. ​

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:

• ​​Research new tools, technologies, or methods for project Performs analyses of supplier pricing, cost, capacity, and market trends to provide recommendations for hardware materials and components. ​
• ​​Contributes ideas and proposals to the development of sourcing strategies to ensure we meet cost, technology, and quality goals.
• ​​Balances priorities of business requirements against product and technology roadmaps in a cross-functional environment (e.g., risk management, investments, supplier relationship, technology adoption.) ​
• ​​Will learn and contribute to short- and long-term mitigation plans to address potential issues within manufacturing, geography/geopolitics, seasonality, financial health, performance, and/or major unavoidable events (e.g., climate events.) ​
• ​​Develops product should-cost models and benchmarking to predict feature costs and trade-offs. ​