Sr. Procurement Manager – EMEA - Data Center

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 a passionate, high-energy individual to help build the network that powers the world’s largest online services. 

Within CO+I, the strategic Supply Chain team is responsible for establishing a supply chain that can meet the ever-growing growth of the Microsoft Cloud and our customers. We support a portfolio of complex, multi-disciplinary, multi-billion, multi-year datacenter construction and operations of those assets. We are looking to fill a critical role of Procurement Director – Equipment. 

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. 

As part of the regional EPC Execution Oversight Team, the key responsibilities are to work cross functionally with other Execution Oversight Team members to provide oversight on the consistent implementation of the project SLA and functional governance, perform project health analysis against the approved SLAs/scope/execution plan/cost/schedule, assist with the project setup, evaluate the site resource effectiveness, conduct spot audits, assist with onboarding and training of the site based team.  Team will be dedicated to this scope and will not be assigned to specific projects or other functional/regional activities.  The project reviews and assessment will be as per the Execution Oversight Team roadmap and/or managed by exception should a critical priority is raised within the region. Team will be based in hub location and will travel together to the site as per the roadmap and business critical priorities. Travel requirements: 50-75%. 

Responsibilities

Responsibilities 

• Field Service Technician/Engineer Management (OEM): 

• Verify Supplier labor management on site visits in coordination with General Contractor, Scheduling Teams, and Internal Planning Teams to align schedules and deliverables. 

• Audit schedule compliance and escalations from field team to support installation and Cx activities as required to drive efficiencies between Supplier and General Contractor  

• Review and advise on strategy for any change orders for overtime, schedule compression and acceleration as needed.  

• Change Order Management:   

• Assess Change Order activity after CDEs & Tech Submittals are complete with Suppliers before Constructions begins.   

• Review the impact of change orders to the project with Execution Oversight Team partners cross-functionally to mitigate impact on schedule and cost.   

• Examine the commercial justification for change orders and review with site team.  

• Knowledge of claims management wit