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Microsoft’s Cloud business is expanding, and the Cloud Supply Chain (CSCP) organization is responsible for enabling the hardware infrastructure underlying this growth including AI! CSCP’s vision is to empower customers to achieve more by delivering Cloud and AI capabilities at scale. Our mission is to deliver the world's computer with an industry-leading supply chain. The CSCP organization is responsible for traditional supply chain functions such as plan, source, make, deliver. We deliver the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft Azure. Our infrastructure is supported by more than 300 datacenters around the world that enable services for more than 1 billion customers in over 90 countries. Cloud Sourcing, Security, and Sustainability Supply Chain (CS3) organization within CSCP, manages sourcing and supply of IT hardware for the data centers. Well-defined and executed sourcing and supply chain management ensures reliable on-time performance, optimized cost, prevents urgent and unplanned investments, and provides accurate and timely information across the supply base and internally across the infrastructure organization. Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and delivering a trusted experience to customers and partners worldwide. We are looking for a passionate, high energy supply chain professional to help build create sustainable advantage through supply chain. The role of Sourcing Engineer manages system integrators under CSSC for Tier 1 System Integration supply chain and is also focused on specific platforms and partnership.
Job Responsibility:
Support the Sustainable Rack Packaging (SRP) strategic initiatives across the Tier I System Integrators (SI) supply chain
Represent SI Sourcing with the suppliers to ensure their adherence to MSFT requirements across functions, while building trust and influencing improvement to their operational performance
Represent SI Sourcing in various internal forums, and partner with teams on actions and deliverables
Engage across product design, quality, engineering, and operations to determine requirements for SIs
Contribute to architecting the supply chain for sustainable rack packaging that is resilient to disruptions and help develop mitigation plans to address geopolitical risk, seasonality, financial health, operational performance, and unplanned events
Collect, synthesize, and create fact-based insights to develop comprehensive and succinct leadership communications to help influence decision making and negotiations
Develop SI sourcing operations processes to deliver optimized financial, material, and information flows between Microsoft, the SI’s, and the packaging supplier
Work closely with planning and suppliers to understand demand and supply, design solutions for adjusting to plan changes, ensuring optimized capacity and mitigating possible inventory risks
Create robust financial models to evaluate complex transactions by engaging with internal and external stakeholders to clearly articulate the outcome of complex financial analyses
Supports the financial health of the supply chain through focus on the operational execution of critical processes with the SIs and packaging supplier, to include commodity settlements, invoice payments, excess material settlements, inventory reconciliation, and reworks
Synthesize supply chain operations and sourcing data, to enable cross-functional decision making and contingency planning to ensure continuity of supply, support of demand, and seamless operations
Collaborate with demand/capacity planning, deployment, logistics, finance, data center operations, and engineering teams
Manage ad-hoc and drive continuous improvement of operational processes and performance metrics
Develop and enable new suppliers
Ensure supplier compliant with Microsoft requirements (e.g. security, social responsibility, cost, quality, payment terms), holds suppliers accountable, and initiates corrective actions to drive improvement
Influence supplier performance through quarterly business reviews and Supply Chain interlocks of key performance indicators (KPIs).
Requirements:
Master's degree in Business, Supply Chain Management, Engineering, Materials Science, or related field AND 1+ year(s) experience in procurement, supply chain, sourcing, engineering, operations, or relevant sales-related roles OR Bachelor's degree in Business, Supply Chain Management, Engineering, Materials Science, or related field AND 2+ years experience in procurement, supply chain, sourcing, engineering, operations, or relevant sales-related roles 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.
Nice to have:
Consulting experience preferred
Packaging background
Manufacturing Engineering background
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 Bachelor's degree in Business, Supply Chain Management, Engineering, Materials Science, or related field AND 5+ years experience in procurement, supply chain, sourcing, engineering, operations, or relevant sales-related roles OR equivalent experience.