Senior Medium-Term Demand Planner

• Lead planners in different resource types to develop a capacity plan that meets customer needs, while maintaining compliance to supply and execution policies, throughput capacities and contractual requirements
• Providing a clear forecast and prioritized signal to the end to end execution teams
• Own the relationship with the supply chain and execution team. Set flexibility and throughput targets, while also comprehending and incorporating their capabilities and constraints
• Optimizing the plan for availability, revenue and cost
• Partner with engineering-specific planners, supply chain, finance, data center operations, cloud server hardware, S&OP and networking teams to ensure all functions act in alignment with common goals
• Envision and drive core measures as outputs from the group, as well as key input measures from other teams
• Apply advanced analytics concepts toward rich insights and key financial and strategic decisions
• Develop a prioritization framework across strategic projects, customer needs, risks and capacities and can solve for cost and other tradeoffs
• Analyze and identify gaps in current midterm planning process. Drive process improvements and transformations with stakeholder alignment

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Supply Chain, Information Technology (IT), Business, Operations, Finance, Accounting, Data Science, or related field AND 4+ years supply chain, inventory management or sales operations experience, preferably in planning (demand/supply/forecasting), cloud industry experience, infrastructure, data science, and/or channel management experience OR equivalent experience
• 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
• 8+ years' experience with cross functional coordination, including experience partnering with data scientists, developers, and program managers to drive continual improvement
• Supply Chain Expertise: Experience in planning, forecasting, designing or analyzing supply chain challenges
• Generating clarity:This is one of the most important aspects of what we do. Our job is to align everyone on the same plan and keep them there. This requires constant communication and diligence to squash any ambiguity
• Power Bl, Metrics and Analytics: Are you able to identify themes and learnings out of data? Define the essence of a function and measure its success? Provide KPI that are clear to understand and can drive decision making
• Results: Are you a doer who can span from strategic thinking to getting stuff done and consistently delivering. Ultimately ensuring capacity availability at the right cost and minimal surprises or churn
• Communications and Influencing: Can you build relationships and influence people - from execs to individuals, across business and technical disciplines? Are you equally adept at leading cross¬ functional meetings or building rapport and personal connection in 1:1 conversations
• Significant analytical depth supported by experience with several of the following: SQL
• advanced Excel modeling
• statistical tool kits such as R, MiniTab, or SAS
• data-lakes
• Kusto
• PowerBI. Proven experience analyzing data, then aggregating and visualizing it for executive audiences
• Demonstrated experience designing algorithms, OKRs, and models in a supply chain setting
• Background working with complex enterprise data sets
• Understanding of statistics, including background with different types of modeling
• Proven ability to build successful partnerships across diverse disciplines
• Technical fluency including basic understanding of Cloud concepts: large scale platforms, distributed services, hardware, and data centers

• 8+ years' experience with cross functional coordination, including experience partnering with data scientists, developers, and program managers to drive continual improvement
• Supply Chain Expertise: Experience in planning, forecasting, designing or analyzing supply chain challenges
• Generating clarity
• Power Bl, Metrics and Analytics
• Results
• Communications and Influencing
• Significant analytical depth supported by experience with several of the following: SQL
• advanced Excel modeling
• statistical tool kits such as R, MiniTab, or SAS
• data-lakes
• Kusto
• PowerBI
• Demonstrated experience designing algorithms, OKRs, and models in a supply chain setting
• Background working with complex enterprise data sets
• Understanding of statistics, including background with different types of modeling
• Proven ability to build successful partnerships across diverse disciplines
• Technical fluency including basic understanding of Cloud concepts: large scale platforms, distributed services, hardware, and data centers

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation