Global Supply Manager

** Overview*
* 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  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, One Drive 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*
* The Microsoft Capacity Supply Chain and Provisioning group is an exciting and fast evolving engineering group within Microsoft. CSCP's mission is to optimize and deliver industry leading cloud infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's online services used by our customers around the world. The organization is responsible for strategy and delivery of the foundational platform for all Microsoft Online Services including demand and capacity forecasting, supply chain, data centers, networking, bandwidth, operations, and incident management.  

CSCP supports over 200 online businesses including Bing, O365, One Drive, Xbox and Windows Azure branded services.

Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and delivering a trusted experience to customers and partners worldwide and we are looking for passionate, high-energy individuals to help achieve that mission.

We are looking for a Global Supply Manager to join the Tier 2 Supply Chain Team within Cloud Sourcing, Security and Supply Chain (CS3) Organization.  This position will be responsible for the fulfilment of Microsoft's 1P custom silicon for Maia (GPU) and  in support of building Microsoft's data center and network infrastructure.  This position will be responsible for creating the Supply Plan of Record for several of our long- lead component suppliers, with a focus on CPUs.

This includes driving actions to ensure reliable supply of raw materials for our system integration partners, management of materials at our 3PL stocking locations and aggressive inventory turns while maintaining supply targets.  The Global Supply Planner will contribute to defining key processes and systems requirements, including managing day-to-day interactions with suppliers, providing forecast and capturing supply capability information. This role will engage across multiple groups within Microsoft to assure supply salience and mitigate risk/ E&O.

** Responsibilities*
* + Work with internal teams to drive 3PL and system integrator alignment to supply key inventory to meet production targets for Microsoft's custom silicon GPU, Maia.

+ Meet regularly with assigned suppliers to review forecast, capture supply commitments, and publish updates internally.

+ Review all POs placed by MSFT System Integrators to assure compliance and supportability against our 3PL inventory positioning.

+ Manage metrics including days of supply, E&O, shortages within lead time and inventory exposure at each supplier to improve performance.

+ Work with Supply Chain and Capacity Planning teams on the timing and availability of product transitions to plan for platform end of life (minimizing E&O inventory) and ramp of new platforms.

+ Define inventory buffer targets and strategies in conjunction with Component Planning based on historical usage and forecast and define financial risk/liability associated with said buffers.

+ Perform scenario analysis to understand impact of component shortages and demand upside/downside on…