Senior Supply Chain Program Manager

Microsoft’s Cloud business is experiencing explosive growth, and the Cloud Supply Chain (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 Manufacturing Operations and Fulfilment (CMOF) 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 supply chain professional to help build create sustainable advantage through supply chain. The role of Senior Supply Chain Program Manager will be responsible for our CSCP 'Pilot to Growth NPI initiative', which will enable us to better manage product ramp to meet customer needs.

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Responsibilities

In this role, you will be working on managing the end-to-end supply chain for new Artificial Intelligence (AI) related product(s). The primary focus will be engaging with new product teams, the product group, Datacenter Infrastructure and supply chain teams for leading, developing and executing supply chain readiness for AI related products. The Senior Supply Chain Program Manager role for New Product Introduction (NPI) at Microsoft is responsible for;

Driving the organization through the launch of new products from One Design to many products and Customers.

Establishing an effective program infrastructure incorporating the product technical requirements, program milestones, cross-functional goals, and organizational interdependencies ensuring stakeholder alignment.

Driving collaborative efforts with teams both within and outside of manufacturing, including external suppliers.

Identifying and developing New Product Introduction milestone scope, co-dependencies (e.g., certifications), conducts mitigation planning, and identifies critical owners and responsibility assignments.

The primary focus of this role will be engaging with new product teams, the product group, Datacenter Infrastructure and supply chain teams for leading, developing and executing supply chain readiness for AI related products.

Specific duties would include:

• Working with cross-functional stakeholders and bringing your own thought leadership to define an NPI readiness strategy, including:
• Conducting risk management efforts to customer capacity
• Providing insights and identifying schedule acceleration opportunities
• Driving decisions including trade-offs to maximize customer capacity
• Conducting cost-benefit analyses and other analytics to examine performance and influence decisions
• Having an in-depth understanding of the product’s technical attributes, milestones, deliverables, and interdependencies
• Stay informed about AI/ Graphical Processiong Units (GPU) industry trends and offer real-time thought leadership on their impact on Microsoft’s Supply Chain
• Using technical experience and product knowledge to have effective engagements with Engineering to ensure schedule, risk, issues, quality, and product changes are aligned to business and customer needs
• Drive business decisions by navigating ambiguity- applying process where it creates value, and designing process where it’s needed
• Using program management tools and communication methods to ensure common understanding of the plan of record with stakeholders, holding them accountable to following the schedule
• Influencing across organizational boundaries to achieve broad business goals by early lifecycle engagement
• Design AI specific metrics, Rhythym Of Business and Scale NPI proce