Sourcing Procurement Manager - AI Job at Microsoft Corporation (Mount Pleasant)

Job Description

Cloud Operations + Innovation (CO+I) is the engine that powers Microsoft’s core cloud platforms and services. 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 Sourcing Procurement Manager - AI.

Job Responsibility

Leads, maintains, and executes material management for several construction projects in the Metro performing purchasing responsibilities, ensuring continuity of supply and/or services
Oversees price and procurement requests via workflow process or technology as applicable in support of product and service requirements, ensuring procedural compliance, and managing the resolution of highly complex pricing issues raised by other sourcing personnel
Serves as a primary point of contact for identifying and resolving internal and/or external contract delivery, execution risks, and road blocks
Leads the (RFI) and/or request for proposal (RFP) processes, manages supplier evaluation frameworks, and partners with suppliers to drive innovation and execution improvement
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
Monitors the impact of complex change orders to the underlying business case, and partners cross-functionally to adjust impact models
Develops negotiation strategies and facilitates early business engagements with cross-functional leadership
Drives supplier and contractor performance management, including safety deliverables, by collaborating with internal and external stakeholders and providing timely feedback
Ensures adherence to policy, educates stakeholders and suppliers on policy compliance, and contributes to the remediation and resolution of sourcing issues
Identifies opportunities to adapt policy as needed to mitigate risk and better enable suppliers to meet business requirements
Collaborates with stakeholders to ensure awareness of Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and/or defined milestones and deliverables, and to drive timeliness, accuracy, quality, and consistency across supply chain requests
Communicates delays to stakeholders, and independently proposes and executes contingency measures
Leads periodic Microsoft-driven supplier audits against policy/contractual requirements in the metro
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
Creates and delivers contract execution plans, defining control processes and approaches that drive consistent alignment with business requirements and supports continuous improvements in the execution of contracts within and across organizations
Serves as a primary point of contact for identifying and resolving internal and/or external contract delivery, execution risks, and road blocks
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
Resolve and escalate the resolution of pricing issues to senior sourcing team
Leads effort to ensure supplier performs the work in accordance with requirements set forth in the Purchase Order
Develops and leads pricing and negotiation strategies for several complex projects, ensures that strategies clearly articulate tradeoffs, roles, and responsibilities across parties, and gains C-suite support for strategies both internally and externally
Anticipates negotiation setbacks, proactively drives action to mitigate contract disagreements, and coaches others on negotiation best practices across internal sourcing teams
Drives early business engagements for complex business areas or purchasing categories with cross-functional leadership including product design, quality, and business teams, to define and drive action on supply solutions and strategies, business requirements, optimal sourcing spend, and priorities
Shares expertise to advise cross-functional teams on sourcing decisions

Requirements

Master'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 operation
OR Bachelor'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 equivalent experience
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements
This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter

Nice to have

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
Ability to leverage and implement new processes
Understanding of sourcing strategy and supply chain execution for long lead items across multiple categories

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