Microsoft’s Cloud business is experiencing explosive growth, and the Capacity, Supply Chain & Provisioning (CSCP) organization is responsible for enabling the infrastructure underlying this growth. Our mission is to deliver the world’s computer with an industry-leading supply chain. CSCP is responsible for strategic sourcing, customer demand forecasting, capacity planning and management, supply chain planning and execution, capacity provisioning, and decommissioning and dispositioning of datacenter assets worldwide.

The Demand Planning team is one of the most central functions within CSCP due its direct impact on Microsoft cloud business success. This team forecasts, plans and manages majority of Microsoft’s cloud services and directly influences cloud user experience. This is a central function that closely partners with Engineering, Finance, Supply Chain, Data Centers, NPI and Deployment Engineering. We are looking for a seasoned demand planning manager with strong partner management skills, insight and supply chain knowledge, and executive presence to transform the relationships with our partners from meeting their stated requirements to meeting their needs while optimizing the efficiency of our Cloud offering.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary POC for Azure Global for New Region and AZ planning.

• Develop technical insights into the product, customer value, COGS and margin drivers to make well balanced data driven decisions for the business.

• Providing a clear forecast and prioritized capacity plan to the end-to-end execution teams and optimizing the plan for availability, revenue and cost.

• Partner with finance, execution, capacity management, software and hardware engineering teams to drive cluster decision to ensure right capacity is available in the right place at right time.

• Operationalize and drive the MBR (monthly business review) cadence for capacity planning

• Liaison with the hardware development organization to ensure SKU development and hardware roadmaps meet the business need by dates.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in supply chain, related product/technology, business administration or engineering field. 

• 8+ years of broad and deep product / supply chain / business planning experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Masters degree or equivalent in supply chain, data science, related product/technology, business administration or engineering field

• Excellent creative thinking skills with emphasis on developing innovative solutions to solve complex problems that may not have one clear answer.

• Adept at communicating findings and driving clarity: pliable to differing audiences, skilled at various data visualizations.

• Adept and passionate about building relationships across disparate teams and working in a matrix environment.

• Driven to not only solve problems but to collaborate with, contribute to, and learn from others, both inside our team and with our stakeholders in the Cloud supply chain (humble and teachable).

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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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