Microsoft Senior Supply Chain Manager 

United States, Washington 

393620407

Reporting to the Director of Supply Chain Operations, within the Cloud Manufacturing, Operations and Fulfillment (CMOF) Organization, the role of

Required/Minimum 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.

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

• Minimum 7+ years supply chain operations and/or supplier management experience in an Electronics, or high-volume supply chain and or applicable Manufacturing / Hardware production environment
• Understanding in the use of Material Requirements Planning (MRP), Excel, Power Point, Structured Query Language (SQL), Access, and Power BI
• Lean-6 sigma black/green belt, Kaizen, or relevant project and process experience preferred
• 10+ years' supplier management experience in an Electronics, or high-volume supply chain and or applicable Manufacturing / Hardware production environment
• MS/MBA preferred
  

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 June 30, 2024.

• Order Fulfillment Monitoring for GPU at Scale: Coordinate and Communicate internal and external messaging on changes to demand delivery, constraints and impact, through customer fulfillment metrics monitoring
• Responsible for Server Order Book management (Date change management, Demand prioritization and supply allocation assessments) and will maintain high data integrity standards in Server Open Book for internal and external data dependencies
• High Focus on signal-to-live order fulfillment activities to help maintain and improve operational/ production processes and transform those processes into sustainable and effective System Engineering tools, continuously focusing on automating transactional functions, resulting in on-time, defect free capacity delivery to our customers
• Develop and drive Microsoft Internal and external key performance Indicators and metrics including, Service Level Agreements (SLA) monitoring, on-time delivery, Purchase Order Milestone Adherence, order promising, critical order management and risk analysis. Present KPIs to the Azure executive team in weekly and monthly meetings
• Managing daily Azure Production Call (APC) with cross-functional collaboration with Customer Capacity Management, Deployment , Data Center Operations (DCOps), Engineering Groups (EG’s) and Post-Dock Team to ensure supply-demand is meeting customer requirements
• Achieve delivery performance targets as developed to support business needs, while consistently evaluating opportunities and supporting process updates to enhance supply chain performance
• Manage supply base engagement process, including supplier operational review meetings, metrics, improvement plans and issue resolution
• Manage and communicate tradeoffs between supply chain efficiency and resiliency during inventory positioning decisions and customer supportability assessments
• Responsible for managing continuous improvements and process initiatives in parallel to day-to-day business operations
• Current Experience in IT / high-tech electronics or Manufacturing / Service supply chain
• Communication, problem solving skills - ability to manage competing priorities, set clear expectations, collaborate, identify objectives, develop and deliver feedback in written, oral, and presentation formats for partner teams, and senior executive management
• Project Management skills involving multiple global Suppliers and Internal partners. Comfort with handling multiple ongoing priorities and escalations. Customer-focus and attention to detail
• Capable of performing complex data analysis to identify problems or opportunities to improve supply chain performance
• Skilled in Customer Relationship building, and Cross-functional collaboration opportunities
• Skills and knowledge in root cause analysis/problem solving and the ability to implement and drive corrective actions and efficiencies (ability to hold people accountable for SLAs, and drive closure)
• Ability to work well in ambiguous situations, and deal effectively with conflicting priorities and changes
• Support organization‐wide projects to improve delivery, reliability, and agility; leveraging others effectively to support internal business team goals
• Ability to travel up to 15-25%, including internationally

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