Sr. Director, Special Projects & Strategic Initiatives

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 an experienced leader to help build the network that powers the world’s largest online services.

Within CO+I, the Engineering Procurement and Construction (EPC) team is responsible for strategic development and execution of engineering, supply chain, construction, commissioning, and fit out that can meet the growth of the Microsoft Cloud Datacenters and our customers. We support a portfolio of complex, multi-disciplinary, multi-billion, multi-year datacenter builds and lease projects and operations of those assets. We are looking to fill the critical role of Amers EPC Leader who can oversee, manage, and drive safe delivery of datacenter builds and lease in Americas.

The Sr. Director, Special Projects & Strategic Initiatives, is responsible for leading the EPC Strategic Roadmap, EPC operational excellence, Learning, Executive Office Management, Suppliers’/Partners Assurance, Communication Plan, and Workforce Planning ensuring full alignment with the overall EPC functional guidelines as well as company's overall business goals.

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.

Responsibilities

• Develop and manage the development of the EPC strategic initiatives roadmap
• Establish and manage intake projects, assess, analyze, and assign to the respective EPC functional pillar for deployment
• Develop a rhythm of business for Major Suppliers’ / Partner for the EPC Executive office including briefing and quality assurance plan.
• Lead the EPC workforce planning and alignment with the talent acquisition and talent planning
• Manage and oversee the EPC learning program
• Manage the overall EPC governance
• Oversees and administrates the EPC Key Result Metrics.

Leadership

• Has led a diverse team
• Ability to deal with ambiguity and exhibits agility.
• Strategic Thinker; Foresight and Judgement; Collaborator and Integrator; Organization and Planning
• Able to operate effectively in a fast pace and complex environment.
• Create, communicate, and maintain an organizational vision and strategy that is based on appropriate business intelligence, is following Microsoft policies, and has buy-in from stakeholders, Microsoft-wide.
• Embody executive presence with ability to communicate effectively with senior leadership and other stakeholders across various pillars of organization.
• Implement execution strategies to effectively and competitively deliver our projects aligned with the overall Microsoft business objectives and growth plan.
• Bring a continuous improvement mindset to the team focused on seeking ways to streamline, automate, drive efficiencies, and simplify processes.
• Lead a team of 7-10.

Execution

• Partner with Global EPC functions to ensure operationalization of multi-year strategies for mature business, identifies opportunities to meet agility requirements, and enables business growth.
• Full understanding of project execution strategy
• planning and execution background
• Full understanding of the EPC industry.

Stakeholder Collaboration

• Oversees and develops business groups for optimal cross-functional stakeholder support and business assurance, and broadly fosters internal and external partnerships to align and negotiate strategic decisions and produce deliverables.
• Drives consensus in the goals and success criteria with stakeholders both internal and external to Microsoft, shares thought leadership and socializes best practices related to negotiation and collaboration to enable teams to execute negotiations with consistent success.