Senior Strategic Sourcing Manager

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.

Responsibilities

• Strategy: Define and establish Microsoft’s Network Sourcing strategy for datacenter switching technologies to drive long-term goals of Technology Adoption, COS (Continuity of Supply), Cost, Quality, Business Health, and Sustainability, and provide competitive advantages for Microsoft cloud offerings. 

• Stakeholder Collaboration: Engage early with Microsoft network architects, engineering, NPI, and program/product management teams to establish product performance, quality, and reliability requirements, identify optimization opportunities and drive product solutions around design for availability and TCO. 

• Influence: Provide thought leadership and manage strategic initiatives with internal stakeholders and suppliers to support cloud supply chain objectives and strategies. 

Sourcing management:

• Engage with cross-functional leadership including Network architecture, engineering, quality, and business teams to determine best design solution and supply base to deliver that solution at optimal SC, COS, and cost. 

• Own the switch sourcing process, partnering with product engineering teams on high visibility technology developments and delivery of innovative solutions. 

• Lead industry initiatives and innovate on business models to deliver best in cloud solutions. 

• Define RFI, RFP, RFQ activities and conduct negotiations with suppliers. 

• Manage contracting activities with Legal and ensure contracts reflect appropriate business terms, IP protection, etc. 

Cost and operations management 

• Build multi-sourcing strategies to mitigate risk and drive appropriate competition. 

• Identify cost reduction opportunities and drive supplier competition with cost modelling and other sourcing tools. 

• Manage NPI (New Product Introduction) development builds until mature enough to transition to sustaining sourcing team. 

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