Microsoft Hiring For Supply Chain 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.

We are seeking a  Supply Chain Manager to join the Storage Commodity Sourcing team within Cloud Sourcing, Spares, Sustainability & Security (CS4) to manage Drives supply chain. In this role, this person will be instrumental in delivering operational excellence for supply chain management, supplier relationship management, and balancing Microsoft’s business priorities for the acquisition of technology and services related to primarily storage systems.

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.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain Management, Operations Management, Supply Chain Analytics, or related field AND 1+ year(s) supply planning, operations, supply chain, indirect supply planning, technology-related supply chain, sourcing and manufacturing, or related experience
• OR Master’s Degree in Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Business, Supply Chain Management, Operations Management, Supply Chain Analytics, or related field
• OR equivalent experience.
• 1+ years experience in Supply Chain

Other 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated ability to partner with internal and external teams to build credibility and trust while driving alignment around common objectives

Supply Planning IC3 – The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $72,800 – $144,000 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 $95,100 – $157,900 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

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Supply and Demand

• Develops and/or executes on forward or reverse supply plans that suppliers and manufacturers will build to, under the guidance from senior team members.
• Engages with the factories for supply plans.
• Assists with inventory strategy for plans while leveraging logistics to inform strategy.
• Conducts analysis and learns to determine “what-if” scenarios impacting supply and demand management for forward and reverse planning.
• Contributes to contingency plans and impact assessments. Supports allocation processes.

Strategy

• Begins to apply strategy of how to determine best operating model for forward and reverse planning strategy to optimize service levels, costs, and inventory positioning based on uncertainty of true demand.
• Supports the strategy to transfer materials, builds, and shipments out of the factory. Learns to align forecast/order and/or inventory targets.
• Executes strategy based on metrics.
• Collaborates with other team members to address imbalances.
• Begins to design solutions independently to adjust to changes in demand after deployment.
• May collaborate with others on the reworking of finished goods inventories.
• Shapes demand to manage inventory.

Lifecycle and Inventory Management

• Collaborates with the team on the planning of raw materials for the building of products or goods.
• Works with others to transition old products to new products while avoiding materials stranded and yield and binning issues.
• Determines quantity of materials needed for last time buy decisions to ensure goods can continue to be made.
• Buffers in signal to address upside over existing forecast in supply. Participates in the execution of buffer strategy included in the demand shared with supplier.
• Learns and uses capacity under oversight with the use of a template.
• Participates in or provides input for ramps and may work with sourcing and New Product Introduction (NPI) teams on individual component liabilities to advise senior leaders on risk.
• Identifies excess goods under the direction of a senior team member. Reacts to changes in demand build and deployment and provides leadership to correct issues.

Analytics, Tools, and Processes

• Uses tools and processes for managing supply and driving improvements to avoid additional labor needs, and gains a deeper understanding of such tools and processes. Provides automation and scales systems for inventory. 
• Uses increasingly complex data sources for analyzing supply. Interprets data to help make assumptions or predictions of business needs for component or product level.
• Creates dashboards to visualize and present supply-chain analysis and metrics. Conducts data analysis to identify gaps in order to understand root cause.
• Leverages metrics to review progress against goals.

Supplier Operations Management

• Works closely with suppliers to remove obstacles or provide resources to meet build plan and align on a favorable supply plan. Reviews staffing, capacity, bills of materials, and change orders. Tracks metrics related to operational performance of suppliers.
• Identifies build requirements in comparison to supplier capacity (e.g., fixed-install capacity, realistic capacity) and consider supplier elements such as overtime or other considerations.
• Supports supplier adherence to compliance expectations. Supports mid-term capacity and financial investments and alignment with stakeholders as needed.

Communication

• Serves as a point of contact between teams to ensure priorities are defined, communicated, and executed.
• Communicates with stakeholders, such as senior team members.

Other

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