Senior Strategic Sourcing Engineer

Microsoft’s Cloud business is expanding, and the Cloud Supply Chain (CSCP) organization is responsible for enabling the hardware infrastructure underlying this growth including AI! CSCP’s vision is to empower customers to achieve more by delivering Cloud and AI capabilities at scale. Our mission is to deliver the world's computer with an industry-leading supply chain. The CSCP organization is responsible for traditional supply chain functions such as plan, source, make, deliver, but also manages supportability (spares), sustainability, and decommissioning of datacenter assets worldwide. We deliver the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's over 200 online businesses including Bing, MSN, Office 365, Xbox Live, OneDrive and the Microsoft Azure platform for external customers. Our infrastructure is supported by more than 300 datacenters around the world that enable services for more than 1 billion customers in over 90 countries.

The Cloud Sourcing, Spares, Security and Sustainability (CS4) organization within CSCP manages sourcing, strategy, and suppliers to provide cost, flexibility, and supply advantages that enable our org to become a world-class supply chain. Well-defined and executed sourcing and supply chain management ensures reliable, on-time performance and optimized cost, prevents urgent and unplanned investments, and provides accurate and timely information across the supply base and internally across the infrastructure organization. Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and delivering a trusted experience to customers and partners worldwide. 

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

Program Management
• Manages internal and external cross-functional partnerships, monitors and resolves internal partner's issues without additional escalation, defines processes and governance for on-boarding and managing supplier partnerships, influences near-term sourcing decisions by discussing details and implications (e.g., tradeoffs, pricing), and seeks to align investments with supply needs to ensure continuity of supply in alignment with product and/or service roadmaps.

Strategic Sourcing
• Sets savings targets for managed categories. Supports cost and supply chain operations needs relevant to contract manufacturers and/or system integrators (e.g., invoice, buffer strategy, technology transitions, qualification planning, approved vendor list, meets or exceeds technical standards). Makes and delivers to budget commitments.
• Ensures that supply chains are robust to disruptions and that mitigation plans are in place that can address issues with manufacturing, geography/geopolitics, seasonality, financial health, performance, and/or major unavoidable events (e.g., climate events, COVID-19) by sharing personal expertise and best practices. Serves as a primary point of escalation for leading the resolution of supply chain continuity issues.
• Researches markets, competitors, and industry trends. Performs analyses of supplier pricing, cost, capabilities, and capacity to provide materials and/or components for Microsoft products and/or services, and uses the results to make sourcing recommendations for sourcing strategies for one or more product categories.
• Makes recommendations for investments in new technologies, initiatives, components, and/or materials that are critical to products and/or services based on technical expertise in those products/services, suppliers, and industry trends. Acquires buy in from stakeholders to ensure that resources are in place and influences the adoption of technologies across specific product categories based on needs of Microsoft products or services. Makes recommendations for extending the life of existing investments.
• Defines, maintains, and executes on sourcing strategy for one or more complex product categories to ensure advantaged cost and sufficient continuity of supply while meeting quality goals (e.g., sustainability, repairability, etc.). Considers all relevant elements of technical roadmaps and business requirements (e.g., risk management, investments, supplier relationship, technology adoption) and partners with cross-functional teams to develop sourcing strategies and influence product-making decisions.

Supplier Management
• Manages the financial health of a product category by engaging cross-functionally early in the development st