Sr. Contracts Lead

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 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 passionate, high-energy individuals to help build the network that powers the world’s largest online services. Within CO+I, the Global Supply Chain - Contracts team is responsible for ensuring fair and ethical procurement processes and managing all commercial/contract requirements that can meet the ever-growing growth of the Cloud and our customers. We support a portfolio of complex, multi-disciplinary, multi-billion, multi-year datacenter construction and lease projects. We are looking to fill the critical role of Sr. Contracts Lead on our US West/Canada Subregional team supporting builds in Phoenix, AZ.

Responsibilities

Contracts

• Defines, maintains, and executes on AE/GC/Commissioning (Cx) contracting strategies for a large, complex data center construction project and/or purchasing opportunities to ensure optimal cost and time to delivery for Msft customers. 
• Integrates business specifications for complex purchasing areas into request for information (RFI) and/or request for proposal (RFP) processes. Collaborates cross-functionally to define and manage supplier scorecard criteria (e.g., key performance indicators [KPIs], Service Level Agreements [SLAs]), coordinates supplier performance/recovery reviews, and drives corrective actions.
• Actively partners with suppliers to identify and drive continuous improvement and risk management opportunities by evaluating procedural, operational, and/or environmental factors, analyzing root causes of issues, sharing insights with key stakeholders, and influencing the adoption of needed improvements.
• Manages contract and price negotiation activities for GC/AE/Cx categories cross-functionally and ensures that both price and capacity needs are met while also reflecting Microsoft's cross-functional engagement with suppliers. Identifies cost reduction opportunities and works closely with suppliers and internal stakeholders to drive cost competitiveness.
• Understand construction industry contracting norms and Microsoft contracting requirements; participate and/or lead negotiation of contracts that meet business goals.
• Identifies risks and roadblocks to contract execution and drives action internally and/or externally to resolve and/or escalate, as appropriate.
• Monitors and mitigates the impact of change orders to the underlying business case, and partners cross-functionally to adjust impact models.
• Enforces contract terms and conditions with notices, if necessary, citing appropriate language from the master contracts
• Ensure contractors are compliant with contractual deliverables and milestones
• Ensure entitlement is applied to change order requests by collaborating with EPC stakeholder SMEs

 Compliance

• Ensures adherence to policy, educates stakeholders and suppliers on policy compliance, and manages the remediation and resolution of sourcing issues. Identifies opportunities to adapt policy as needed to mitigate risk and better enable suppliers to meet business requirements.
• Ensures consistency, timeliness, quality, and accuracy of deliverables, and ensures Procurement stakeholders are aware of Service Level Agreement (SLA) and/or defined milestones and deliverables terms. Communicates delay to Procurement stakeholders, and independently proposes and executes contingency measures.

 Stakeholder Collaboration

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• Drives early business engagements for complex business areas or purchasing categories with cross-functional leadership including planning, strategic sourcing, cost, engineering, quality, construction, project managers, to define and drive action on supply solutions and strategies, business requirements, optimal sourcing on spend/budget and align on priorities.
• Shares expertise to advise cross-functional teams on sourcing decisions.

 People Management

• Provide managerial direction to Site based Contract personnel to ensure execution of contractual tasks with Microsoft and CO+I Contracting/Procurement policies.
• This role will report to the EPC PHX Site Director and take dotted-line functional direction from the PHX Metro Contracts Director and US West/Canada Sub-Regional Director.

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