Overview

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.

Microsoft Cloud Operations and Innovation (CO&I) is the team behind the cloud.  Within CO&I, the Engineering Procurement and Construction (EPC) team is responsible for delivering core datacenter infrastructure for Microsoft’s cloud business. The MS portfolio consists of complex, multi-disciplinary, large scale, multi-year datacenter construction and lease projects. We are looking for a passionate, high-energy individual to help build the cloud datacenters that power the world’s largest online services.  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. ​​​​​​​

Responsibilities

Role Summary

• The DC Campus Procurement Manager- is a site-based role which maintains and executes sourcing strategies for complex projects and/or purchasing opportunities.
• Integrates business specifications for complex purchasing areas into request for information and/or request for proposal processes.
• Applies an understanding of procurement policies.
• Ensures adherence to policy, educates stakeholders and suppliers on policy compliance, and drives the remediation and resolution of sourcing issues.
• Identifies issues related to procurement requests and collaborates with business and engineering partners.
• Creates contract execution plans, defining control processes and approaches.
• Drives early business engagements for highly complex business areas or purchasing categories.
• Manage supplier activity and progress across multiple accounts and complex purchasing categories, developing and executing supplier account plans detailing mutual priorities and focus for the supplier relationship for the upcoming period. 

Compliance

• Collaborates with senior Procurement stakeholders to ensure awareness of Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and/or defined milestones and deliverables, and to drive timeliness, accuracy, quality, and consistency across supply chain requests.
• Serves as subject matter expert on the SLA, milestones, and/or deliverables, and manages any escalations related to policy non-compliance.
• Leverages data to anticipate and mitigate risk and negative business impacts by ensuring compliance with agreed-upon terms, communicating delay potential to stakeholders, and driving the execution of contingency plans cross-functionally and/or cross-regionally as needed. 
• Leads decision making around the execution and evolution of various workstream processes, identifies and seeks solutions to compliance areas/gaps, and influences leadership to drive change internally and/or externally. 
• Ensures adherence to policy, educates stakeholders and suppliers on policy compliance, and drives the remediation and resolution of sourcing issues.

Sourcing

• Maintains and executes multi-year sourcing strategy for several complex projects and/or purchasing opportunities, optimizing costs, ensuring continuity of supply and/or services, and driving benchmarking and alignment across Microsoft.
• Works cross functionally with senior stakeholders and consult with other industry experts to inform strategy with a global view.
• Leverages end-to-end sourcing and procurement expertise and benchmark data to identify, revise, and influence the definition of business requirements, manage conflicting priorities and tradeoffs, and resolve escalations to execute on sourcing strategies and solutions
• Manages, and improves supplier evaluation frameworks, identifies gaps or trends across supplier strategic business and performance reviews, and drives corrective actions.
• Partners with suppliers to drive innovation and improvement, transform operational capabilities, and proactively identify and manage risk.
• Evaluates procedural, operational, and/or environmental factors across categories, accounting for key stakeholder relationships and dependencies, analyzing root causes of issues, linking insights to improvement strategies, and influencing the adoption of needed improvements. 

Job Description:

DC Campus Procurement Manager

• On time LLE/OFCI (Long Lead Equipment/Owner Furnished Contractor Installed) Delivery & Quality Assurance for  Campus Data Center Projects: 

• Ensure On time delivery as per OEMs Contractual ROJs (Required on Job Site) dates
• Help facilitate the LLE/OFCI (Owner Furnish Contractor Installed) equipment once delivered to site, including inspections and appropriate sign offs.  
• Address quality-related issues as they arise and report to the quality team and category management as appropriate. 

• Supplier Engagement & Performance Management:
  • Manage “Post award” site delivery scheduling, on-time delivery performance, and reporting.
  • Communicate scheduling delays from OFCI equipment suppliers to relevant stakeholders & make mitigation strategy
  • Oversee site specific Procurement activities and collaborate with both internal and external partners to proactively resolve issues.

• Field Service Technician/Engineer Management (OEM):
  • Align OEMs FSR (Field Service Resources) plan in coordination with the General Contractor, DCD & Commissioning team to support Overall Project/Commissioning schedule
  • Negotiations and management of OEMs FSR change orders for overtime, schedule compression and acceleration as needed.

• Change Order Management:
• Initiate Change Order post POs
• Monitor and mitigate the impact of change orders to the project schedule, and partners cross-functionally to resolve/escalate issues if any
• Attend cost/change management meetings to ensure any changer orders of additional equipment are executed promptly and timely.
• Support Claims negotiations with the detailed understanding of the contractual conditions and partner with regional claims to settle or escalate.

The role needs to partner with the broader teams including Projects Control, Strategic Sourcing, DCD, Commissioning, Supplier Quality etc. for the successful execution of LLE/OFCI for the on-time delivery for a large, complex capital project

Stakeholder Collaboration

• Drives early business engagements for highly complex and/or undefined business areas or purchasing categories with cross functional leadership including product design, quality, and business teams, to share best practices, influence decision-makers, drive action, and optimize sourcing strategies, business requirements, spend, and short- and long-term priorities.
• Manage supplier activity and progress across multiple accounts and complex purchasing categories, developing and executing supplier account plans detailing mutual priorities and focus for the supplier relationship for the upcoming period.
• Trains external stakeholders during onboarding and identifies engagement programs to improve supplier performance to achieve business goals. 

Qualifications

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Management, Supply Chain or related field and 6+ years’ experience in Project Management & Supply Chain

• Strong commercial understanding of Product & Capital Equipment procurement.  

• Extensive experience in Sourcing, Procurement and Project management is an essential requirement for this role.   

While not required, we also look for the following Preferred Qualifications:

• Hyperscale data center or large building construction experience in an owner or general contractor capacity 
• Knowledge of data center industry and experience managing a variety of project delivery methods - ability to lead a project team in defining risk and developing the appropriate contracting.
• High energy and drive to achieve results in midst of ambiguity and matrixed org.
• Excellent communicator that can interact with diverse groups across organizational levels.
• Ability to implement new processes and get buy in from a cross functional team.
• Must be able to drive & execute sourcing strategy and supply chain execution for multiple categories.

Background Check 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 required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

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This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.