Microsoft Looking For Sourcing Program Manager at Austin, TX Full Time

Microsoft’s Cloud business is experiencing explosive growth, and the Capacity, Supply Chain & Provisioning (CSCP) organization is responsible for enabling the infrastructure underlying this growth. Our mission is to deliver the world’s computer with an industry-leading supply chain. CSCP is responsible for strategic sourcing, customer demand forecasting, capacity planning and management, supply chain planning and execution, capacity provisioning, and decommissioning and dispositioning of datacenter assets worldwide.

Cloud Sourcing and Supply Chain (CSSC) organization within CSCP manages sourcing and supply of all IT hardware for the data centers which includes all servers, storage, and networking devices. 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.

As our supply chain grows in complexity, the responsibilities of our suppliers, and subsequent sourcing organization continues to grow. This role will contribute to building expertise in, driving consistency, and leading initiatives across Sourcing teams in the areas of, but not limited to, Security, Sustainability, Risk Management, Supplier Relationship Management (SRM), Material Cost Reduction, and Digital Transformation. This role will report to the Director of Sourcing Program Management Office.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities

The successful candidate must be a self-starter with proven skills in driving key initiatives with results through engagement with stakeholders and partners and have a solid business acumen. The candidate will be a problem solver and be resourceful, able to drive change, creative, and willing to work with and through others to be successful. Strong executive verbal and written communication skills and analytical thinking are necessary for driving a high level of impact.

• Manages cross-functional projects to improve business results, tools, and processes
• Leads project teams in support of strategic initiatives and manages overall project activities, plans, and schedules associated with deliverables and milestones.
• Develops recommendations for optimizing business performance
• Collaborates across functions and organizations to align strategy and direction with approaches, systems, information, and support
• Prepares strategic content for high profile forums with top executives / senior leaders across the organization to shape and drive strategic agenda

Core skills to enable success

• Demonstrated ability to successfully manage large-scale change and influence in a matrixed organization
• Demonstrated strategic thinking and leadership with strong relationship management ability
• Prior experience in managing by influence across multiple teams/groups across an organization
• Proven track record for identifying risks and implementing mitigations successfully
• Demonstrated customer focus, evaluates decisions through the eyes of the customer and develops processes to deliver outcomes that meet Microsoft, supply chain, and sourcing goals
• Undaunted by challenges with a drive for execution, delivering excellent results under tight, pressure-filled timelines

Qualifications

Required Qualification

Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Supply Chain Management, or related discipline or equivalent experience.

3+ years in project management roles or in similar roles

Preferred Qualification

PMP certified

MBA Degree

Strong project management/process improvement skills, effectively evaluates information/data to make decisions; anticipates obstacles and develops plans to resolve issues; creates actionable strategies and operational plans.

Demonstrated strategic thinking and leadership with strong relationship management ability.

Ability to lead analysis studies in multiple areas and lead project definition and recommendations.

Ability to be comfortable and credible in assessing impact of change, communication, and training need.

Ability to effectively design, gain alignment and successfully execute significant change initiatives from project start to finish.

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