Senior AI Demand Planner

Microsoft’s Cloud business is expanding, and the Cloud Supply Chain (CSCP) organization is responsible for enabling the infrastructure underlying this growth including AI! CSCP’s vision is to empower customers to achieve more by delivering Cloud Capacity Differentiated at Scale. Our mission is to deliver capacity for all cloud services predictably through intelligent systems driven by continuous learning and a world class organization. The CSCP Organization is responsible for traditional supply chain functions such as Plan, Source, Make, Deliver, but also manages supportability (spares), decommissioning and disposition of Data center assets worldwide. We deliver the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's over 200 online businesses including Bing, MSN, Office 365, Xbox Live, Skype, OneDrive and the Microsoft Azure platform for external customers. Our infrastructure is comprised of a large global portfolio of more than 200 datacenters supporting services for more than 1 billion customers in over 90 countries worldwide. The Senior AI Demand Planner is part of AI Planning which is within the Microsoft Cloud Planning (MCP) organization in CSCP. AI Planning’s mission is to drive AI planning excellence and innovative leadership to deliver scalable AI capacity. 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. Within AI Planning we embody and lead with these core Microsoft values daily.

Responsibilities

As an Senior AI Demand Planner, you will be focused on balancing supply and demand constraints through the Execution Horizon by working cross functionality with data center and engineering teams to optimize the plan. This opportunity will allow you to develop deeper business acumen with cloud supply chain, AI, and Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) as you interact across all levels of the organization. In the Sales and Operations Execution (S&OE) horizon, you will:

• Create the AI-related demand plan in the system and keep it up to date.
• Perform pre-checks to ensure each demand request has all required prerequisites to enable its seamless execution.
• Work cross functionally to gather the prerequisites when they’re not completed in advance to keep your demand plan de-risked.
• Own the execution of changes to your demand plan as business priorities change.
• Define data driven metrics to sense risk to your demand plan and use data to make decisions.
• Support S&OE transformation efforts across the Cloud Supply Chain.

• Other

  • • Embody our culture and values

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Supply Chain, Information Technology (IT), Business, Operations, Finance, Accounting, Data Science, or related field AND 6+ years supply chain, inventory management or sales operations experience, preferably in planning (demand/supply/forecasting), cloud industry experience, infrastructure, data science, and/or channel management experience
  • OR equivalent experience.

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 r