Senior Global Supplier Account Manager

Are you passionate about influencing and driving economic value across Microsoft’s most complex supplier relationships and looking for an opportunity to impact decisions that will have a long-term impact on Microsoft’s future? Are you experienced in supplier or partner relationship management including: Driving economic value realization; Managing supplier accountability and performance; Balancing trade-offs to optimize for value for Microsoft; Developing, negotiating and implementing contract strategies. Procurement has a mission to deliver business value through proactive global solutions that are innovative, compliant and cost effective and exceed stakeholder expectations. Procurement is a global team of 220+ employees across 30 countries supporting 100+ geographies worldwide facilitating $35B+ in annual purchases worldwide. Microsoft’s Supplier Management team within Microsoft Procurement has an opening for a Global Supplier Account Manager. We are looking for a relationship leader to manage several of our key Global Independent Software Vendors (GISV’s) by driving supplier accountability, managing supplier risk and extending economic value across our highest impact suppliers. This Global Supplier Account Manager (SAM), will be responsible for overseeing several of Microsoft’s critical GISV suppliers that support our indirect/direct engineering software services engagements. This will include, but is not limited to, aligning our purchase/use actions with the overall business strategies, monitoring the supplier’s performance, mitigating risk and driving future innovative opportunities, between Microsoft and the supplier. Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.