Microsoft DC Contracts - Professional Services Category Manager 

Singapore 

603708925

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s orMaster’s Degree in Engineering, Supply Chain Management, Quantity Surveying, Construction Management, and/or Operations.

• Proven experience managing hyper-scale construction projects,demonstratingthe ability to lead and deliver complex, large-scaleprojectsfrominitiationthroughtocompletion.

• Extensive experience in supply chain management, commercial negotiations, and contracting, as well as external supplier/contractor management across multiple projects in diverse locations.

• Deep understanding of Commercial Contracting language and terms with proven negotiation skills with external suppliers / service providers.

Preferred Qualifications

• xperience in the Data Center, Infrastructure,Semi-conductor,Power, or Oil & Gas industries, managing capital projects with contractor and supplier management responsibilities.

• Experience working in a large, multinational organization, preferably on the owner’s side, with a strong understanding of corporate processes, stakeholdermanagement, and global operations.

DC Contracts Professional Servicesresponsible for the sourcing of construction-related services projects across Asia-Pacific. This role involves developing multi-year sourcing strategies to support a rapidly growing project roadmap, leading supplier onboarding andsupplier performance standards to achieve project excellence. Professional Services contracts include, but are not limited to, Architecture, Engineering, Quantity Surveying, Project

Compliance

• Applies an end-to-end understanding of the tradeoffs between Microsoft and key suppliers to drive business impact by influencing senior managers cross-functionally, or cross-regionally to apply market intelligence and adopt practices that enable execution with consistency, accuracy, quality, and timeliness of delivery. Manages supplier scorecard process, leads strategic business reviews, educates stakeholders on policy compliance, analyzes root causes of issues, and influences change internally and/or externally to address issues.

• Ensures adherence to policy, educates stakeholders and suppliers on policy compliance, and manages the remediation and resolution of sourcing issues.Identifiesopportunities to adapt policy as needed to mitigate risk and better enable suppliers to meet business requirements.

• Ensures consistency, timeliness, quality, and accuracy of deliverables, and ensures Procurement stakeholders are aware of Service Level Agreement (SLA) and/or defined milestones and deliverables terms. Communicates delay to Procurementstakeholders, andindependently proposes and executes contingency measures.

ta Center Contracts & Supplier Management

• purchasingareas into request for information (RFI) and/or request for proposal (RFP) processes. Collaborates cross-functionally to define and manage supplier scorecard criteria (e.g., key performance indicators [KPIs], Service Level Agreements [SLAs]), coordinates supplier performance reviews, and drives corrective actions. Actively partners with suppliers toidentifyand drive continuous improvement and risk management opportunities by evaluating procedural, operational, and/or environmental factors, analyzing root causes of issues, sharing insights with key stakeholders, and influencing the adoption of needed improvements.

• Manages contract and price negotiation activities for a single purchasing category cross-functionally and ensures that both price andcapacityneeds are met while also reflecting Microsoft's cross-functional engagements with suppliers.Identifiescost reduction opportunities and works closely with suppliers to drive cost competitiveness.

• maintains, and executes sourcing strategies for one or more complex projects and/orpurchasingopportunities to ensureoptimalcost and sufficient continuity of supply and/or service, collects relevant internal and industry data to understand business requirements, benchmarks data against relevant markets, and shares industry and categoryexpertise

• Processes or supports stakeholder procurement requests for complexpurchasingcategories via engagement and/orleveragingworkflow process or technology, where applicable in support of product and service requirements. Manages the resolution of escalated pricing issues raised by other sourcing personnel.

• Executes contracts andcomplies withestablished control processes to ensure delivery and executiononcontracts in alignment with business requirements.Identifiesrisks and roadblocks to contract execution and drives action internally and/or externally to resolve and/or escalate, asappropriate

• Develops pricing and negotiation strategies for one or more complex purchasing categories, ensures that strategies clearly articulate the tradeoffs, roles, and responsibilities across parties, and gains senior executive support for strategies both internally and externally.Identifies negotiation setbacks and takes action to mitigate contract disagreements.

• purchasingcategories with cross-functional leadership including product design, quality, and business teams, to define and drive action on supply solutions and strategies, business requirements,optimalsourcing spend, and priorities. Sharesexpertiseto advise

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Behavioural Attributes

• Can create clarity, generate energy, and deliver success; always beplanning for the future

• Have high integrity – must be ethical and strong value-based individual focused on fairness andmaintainingconfidentiality.

• Bring high energy – a drive to achieve results in midst of ambiguity and a matrix organization.

• regardingissue resolution.

• sacross teams and stakeholders,leveragingdiverse perspectives to achieve common goals. Activelyparticipatesin and drives cross-functional initiatives, balancing individual contributions with group success.