Microsoft Senior Strategic Sourcing Manager 

United States, Washington 

876148805

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Supply Chain Management, Engineering, Materials Science, or related field AND 4+ years experience in procurement, supply chain, sourcing, engineering, operations, or relevant sales-related roles
  • OR Master's Degree in Business, Supply Chain Management, Engineering, Materials Science, or related field AND 3+ years experience in procurement, supply chain, sourcing, engineering, operations, or relevant sales-related roles
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Engineering field working experience OR sourcing/supply chain working 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

• 8+ years experiences in procurement, supply chain, operations areas.
• Extensive experience in leading cross functional teams.
• Engineering or technical background or product development is a plus.
• Cloud or high tech supply chain experience.

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 December 27, 2024.

Sourcing management

o Lead a supplier selection process to verify appropriate supplier is chosen with suitable capabilities for the given product while ensuring all potential suppliers meet the business, technical, and financial requirements of the program.

Cost and operations management

o Build multi-sourcing strategy to mitigate risk and drive appropriate competition.

o Identify cost reduction opportunities and drive suppliers for cost competitiveness with cost modelling and other sourcing tools.

o Manage ad-hoc cost issues e.g., tariffs / import export cost, cost inflation.

o Continuous improvement of all critical areas around supply, manufacturing, and cost.

Manage supplier performance and compliance

o Develop and enable introduction of new suppliers. Supervise compliance with MSFT requirements for security, social responsibility, and payment terms.

Core skills:

• Extensive knowledge of hardware sourcing and supply chain

• Demonstrated track record in supplier negotiation and management

• Proven capabilities operating in a growing, fast-paced, results-oriented environment and able to deliver outcome with details.

• Analytical problem-solving skills focused on continuous improvement of strategy and business process.

• Strong influence and leadership skills with experience building lasting relationships across multiple layers in an organization.

• Excellent communication and synthesizing skills of both written and verbal.

• Generate quality outputs using business tools (Word, Excel modeling, Power Point slides).

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