Microsoft Director Supplier Trust & Compliance 

United States, Washington 

401609453

You will partner with risk domain stakeholder leaders to understand priorities and be adept at anticipating directional changes considering near term and horizon scanning. You will need to provide strategic leadership, understanding the breadth and depth of supplier interactions across Microsoft to ensure the team builds and then maintains a viable baseline of due diligence that suppliers can pragmatically attain as they provide services on behalf of Microsoft.

You will manage relationships effectively, fostering collaboration and enhancing peer review practices to achieve well-balanced compliance decisions. Your ability to clarify problem statements, make strategic recommendations, and drive progress will be crucial in delivering timely and impactful results.

Required/Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Science, Business, Engineering, or related field AND 8+ years experience in business, legal/regulatory, compliance, audit/consulting firm
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) certification OR an International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) Privacy Professional certification OR American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) qualified auditor is required.

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Microsoft will accept applications for the role until January 29, 2025.

• Uphold program integrity and standards as the Compliance Director, ensuring that privacy, security and responsible AI principles are at the forefront as you support Procurement colleagues business engagements.
• Lead the team to deliver on the Corporate control compliance remit, balancing business expediency with expected compliance outcomes.
• Ensure our operating standards maintain ongoing green audit reports from Internal Audit, regulatory inquiries, customer audits and Microsoft ability to successfully attain International Orgnization for Standardization (ISO) certifications and Service Organizational Control (SOC 2) reports.
• Lead the team to examine existing operating guardrails, always considering effectiveness and whether changes are warranted.
• Provide thought leadership to enterprise stakeholder risk domain leaders and as we align leaders on the broad and critical role suppliers play to support Microsoft products, datacenters, sales, marketing and corporate functions so that well-considered policies are developed.
• Define and align leaders around revisions to controls based on policy updates, clarify tradeoffs to balance operational recommendations based on priorities, accountabilities. Evaluate proposed changes as the team converts policy directives into reasonable supplier standards containing operational impacts.
• Drive customer support service improvements that increase satisfaction scores without compromising the compliance remit.
• Participate and provide your thought leadership in efforts to streamline the end-to-end buying process , adding your compliance control mindset to discussions.
• As an agile leader you will be accountable to enable supplier security, privacy and responsible AI compliance, while also delivering on our strategic priorities: increase turn around time, secure our future, unlock operational leverage though operational excellence.