Overview

Overview

Cloud Operations + Innovation (CO+I) is the engine that powers Microsoft’s core cloud platforms and services that millions of people use every day. With more than 95% of Fortune 500 business on Azure, 180+ million using Office 365, and millions using other services – all running on Microsoft's cloud infrastructure – CO+I builds and operates the foundation upon which Microsoft’s mission to empower every person and organization comes to life.

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 individual to help build the network that powers the world’s largest online 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 AI Site Procurement Manager.

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.”

This role is located at our site in Mount Pleasant, WI.

Relocation support will be provided, and successful candidates must relocate or reside within 50 miles of the Data center.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities

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.

Compliance

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.

Procurement and Contracts

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.

Stakeholder Collaboration

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.

Qualifications

Required/minimum qualifications

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.

Background Check Requirements:

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.

While not required, we also look for the following Preferred Qualifications:

Additional or preferred qualifications

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.
Ability to leverage and implement new processes.

Sourcing and Category Management IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $96,500 - $188,400 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $123,500 - $206,400 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.