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Global Supply Manager

United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 30 Aug 2024

💰 $200,500/yr($94,600/yr – $200,500/yr)

About the role

Microsoft’s Cloud business is experiencing significant growth, and the Cloud Supply Chain and Provisioning (CSCP) organization is at the forefront of this expansion. CSCP is responsible for enabling the infrastructure that supports this growth, including advancements in AI. Our vision is to empower customers to achieve more by delivering differentiated cloud capacity at scale. Our mission is to provide predictable cloud service capacity through intelligent systems driven by continuous learning and a world-class organization. Beyond the traditional supply chain functions of planning, sourcing, making, and delivering, CSCP also handles supportability (spares), decommissioning, and disposition of Data Center assets globally. We deliver core infrastructure and foundational technologies for over 200 Microsoft on-line businesses, including Bing, MSN, Office 365, Xbox Live, Skype, One-Drive, and the Microsoft Azure platform for external customers. Our infrastructure encompasses a vast global portfolio of more than 200 data centers, supporting services for over 1 billion customers in more than 90 countries. Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and delivering a trusted experience to customers and partners worldwide. We are seeking a Global Supply Manager who is passionate and driven to help us achieve this mission. The Global Supply Manager on the CSCP Supply Operations team will be responsible for creating the Supply Plan of Record for several of our long-lead component suppliers in the GPU and CPU space. Key responsibilities include: - Ensuring a reliable supply of raw materials for our system integration partners.- Managing materials at our 3PL stocking locations.- Driving aggressive inventory turns while maintaining supply targets. This role will contribute to defining key processes and systems requirements, managing day-to-day interactions with suppliers, providing forecasts, and capturing supply capability information.

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Responsibilities

Work with internal teams to drive 3PL and system integrator alignment to supply CPUs/GPUs to meet production targets.
Meet regularly with assigned suppliers to review forecasts, capture supply commitments, and publish updates internally. Engage across multiple groups within Microsoft to assure supply salience and mitigate risk/ E&O.
Review all POs placed by Microsoft System Integrators to assure compliance and supportability against our 3PL inventory positioning.
Manage metrics including days of supply, E&O, shortages within lead time and inventory exposure at each supplier to improve performance.
Work with Supply Chain and Capacity Planning teams on the timing and availability of product transitions to plan for platform end of life (minimizing E&O inventory) and ramp of new platforms.
Define inventory buffer targets and strategies in conjunction with Component Planning based on historical usage and forecast and define financial risk/liability associated with said buffers.
Perform scenario analysis to understand impact of component shortages and demand upside/downside on Supply Plan of Record.

Other

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