Regional Contracts Director

Microsoft Cloud Operations and Innovation (CO+I) is the team behind the cloud. We are responsible for delivering over 200 Microsoft web portals, Live and Online Services around the world including infrastructure, security and compliance, operations, globalization, and manageability. Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and delivering a trusted experience to customers and partners worldwide. We are looking for a Regional Contracts Director to help build the network that powers the world’s largest online services. 
 
Within CO+I, the strategic Supply Chain team is responsible for establishing a supply chain that can meet the ever-growing growth of the Microsoft Cloud and 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 a critical role of Regional Contracts Director which will focus on post-award contract management of construction contracts across the US, Canada and Latin America and will be specifically tasked with driving performance and contractual accountability of General Contractors (GCs). 
 

In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day. 

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 either in one or all hub locations - Atlanta, GA, Redmond, WA, San Antonio, TX or Phoenix, AZ.  

Relocation support will be provided, and successful candidates will need to relocate or reside within 50 miles of the hub office location.  

This role is eligible for hybrid or remote work, up to 100%.

Responsibilities

The Regional Contracts Director for Supply Chain will be the AMERs stakeholder focused on post-award contract management. You will have extensive knowledge of the contract administration of large construction contracts as it relates to management of a contractor or service provided through the lifetime of the contracted scope. You will be expected to drive best practices / concepts for the full spectrum of activities that are associated with contractor post-award management including, performance reporting and monitoring, change management, invoice validation, formal correspondence, and closeout. You should have extensive contract experience and understand the nuances of how contracts are administered. You will have knowledge of the various types of contract methods (Design, Design-Build, Design-Bid-Build etc.) as well as the different pricing formats (Lump Sum, Guaranteed Maximum Price (GMP), Time & Material (T&M), Cost+, Unit Price) in which construction contracts can be based commercially. You will also have extensive experience in the analysis and negotiation of Change Orders submitted by General Contractors. 

Compliance 

• Drives business impact by establishing functional standards and procurement performance expectations that define relevant process and compliance success metrics, while also identifying opportunities for improving process efficiency and policy compliance. Applies end-to-end subject matter expertise and leverages market intelligence to develop and influence Microsoft-wide channel strategies that optimize value and enable execution with consistency, accuracy, quality, and timeliness. Leads decision making across organizations to determine optimum strategies for suppliers and partners to increase efficiency and manage costs and drives accountability and governance for adopting workstream improvements and automation at scale to meet and surpass business expectations. 

• Leads partnerships with global stakeholders and suppliers to identify systematic business threats and determine which sustainable elements, alternative solutions, and/or policy changes would optimally mitigate risks at scale moving forward. Champions new policy direction and changes as needed to ensure systematic resolution and remediation of sourcing issues across Microsoft and its partners. 

• Negotiates and provides strategic oversight for improving existing, or establishing new, Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and/or defined milestones and deliverables, holds accountability and ownership of SLAs with an end-to-end company-wide perspective, and ensures compliance is cascaded down to the business. Strategizes on and communicates SLA terms cross-functionally and/or cross-regionally to internal and external stakeholder