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Within CO+I, the Global Supply Chain team is responsible for establishing a supply chain that can meet the ever-growing Microsoft Cloud for our customers. We support a portfolio of complex, multi-disciplinary, multi-billion, multi-year datacenter construction and lease projects and operations of those assets. We are looking to fill the critical role of AI Site Procurement Manager.
Job Responsibility:
Processes, maintains, and executes material management for construction projects performing purchasing responsibilities, ensuring continuity of supply and/or services
Integrates business specifications into request for information (RFI) and/or request for proposal (RFP) processes, manages supplier evaluation frameworks, and partners with suppliers to drive innovation and execution improvement
Supports contract and price negotiation activities and ensures alignment with cross-functional teams
Applies end-to-end understanding of procurement processes to drive business impact and leads decision-making around workstream processes
Ensures adherence to policy and collaborates with senior stakeholders to drive consistency across supply chain requests
Manages procurement execution while ensuring procedural compliance
Monitors the impact of complex change orders and drives supplier and contractor performance management
Manages supplier activity and external stakeholders to improve supplier performance
Ensures adherence to policy, educates stakeholders and suppliers on policy compliance, and contributes to the remediation and resolution of sourcing issues with minimal guidance
Ensures consistency, timeliness, quality, and accuracy of deliverables in alignment with Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and/or defined milestones and deliverables
Communicates delays potential to stakeholders and executes contingency measures as directed
Demonstrates an understanding of the tradeoffs between Microsoft and key suppliers, and drives business impact through the application of market intelligence and plans that enable execution with consistency, accuracy, quality and timeliness of delivery
Manages aspects of supplier scorecard process and strategic business reviews, and addresses issues with minimal guidance
Facilitates periodic Microsoft-driven supplier audits against policy/contractual requirements
Ensures the governance model maintains up to date sourcing and supplier data
Route contracts and Change Orders via workflow process or technology in support of product and service requirements
Executes contracts and complies with established control processes as directed within an assigned purchasing category
Identifies risks and roadblocks to contract execution, monitors the impact of change orders, and escalates their resolution cross-functionally, including Legal and Corporate Affairs, or to senior sourcing personnel as needed
Ensures supplier performs the work in accordance with requirements set forth in the contract
Processes or supports stakeholder procurement requests for purchasing categories via engagement and/or leveraging workflow process or technology, where applicable in support of product and service requirements with minimal guidance
Route original Purchase Orders as well as any subsequent Change Orders via workflow process or technology in support of product and service requirements, with minimal guidance
Escalates the resolution of pricing issues to senior sourcing personnel
Audits supplier work in accordance with requirements set forth in the Purchase Order
Supports business engagements for low-risk and/or well-defined business areas or purchasing categories with cross-functional leadership, including product design, quality, and business teams, to advise on supply solutions and strategies, business requirements, and priorities with minimal guidance
Collaborates with suppliers and internal Microsoft compliance stakeholders and performs active care as directed, to assist them through on boarding
Serves as a contact point between a supplier and Microsoft
Develops the pricing and negotiation strategies for a well-defined purchasing category, ensures that strategy is clearly articulated cross-functionally, and gains appropriate executive support for strategies both internally and externally with minimal guidance
Requirements:
Master's Degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, Data Analytics, Business, Finance or related field AND 3+ years experience in data science/analytics, finance, project management, supply chain, and/or operation OR Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, Data Analytics, Business, Finance or related field AND 4+ years experience in data science/analytics, finance, project management, supply chain, and/or operations OR equivalent experience
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements
Ability to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter
Nice to have:
Master's Degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, Data Analytics, Business, Finance or related field AND 6+ years experience in data science/analytics, finance, project management, supply chain, and/or operation OR Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, Data Analytics, Business, Finance or related field AND 8+ years experience in data science/analytics, finance, project management, supply chain, and/or operation OR equivalent experience
Experience at active construction environment
Candidate is willing to travel between local sites (not a single assigned office at one location)
Hyperscale data center or large building construction experience in an owner or general contractor capacity
Knowledge of data center industry and experience managing a variety of project delivery
Drive to deliver results in midst of ambiguity and matrixed org
Ability to prepare and process purchase orders
Effective communicator that can interact with diverse groups across organizational levels