Job Description

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, OneDrive, 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 Commodity Supply Manager to join the Tier 2 Supply Chain Team within Cloud Sourcing and Supply Chain (CSSC) Organization. This position will be responsible for the fulfilment of commodities such as CPU/DIMM/SSD/HDD/GPU in support of building out Microsoft's data center and network infrastructure.

* Meet regularly with assigned suppliers to review forecast, capture supply commitments and publish internally.
* Review all PO's placed by MSFT for production spares 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 (in conjunction with Component Planning) and strategies based on historical usage and forecast. Define financial risk/liability associated with said buffers.
Review priorities between production and spares to create allocation plans for constrained materials.
* Act as primary liaison between production planning and warranty teams to define processes to assure supply across both demand streams. Develop processes and tools to support allocations between parties.

Basic Requirements:

3 years in Electronics manufacturing supply planning or similar role,
Bachelor's degree required (BS/MS in business, supply chain, operations management or engineering preferred) or equivalent work experience.

Preferred Requirements:
Capable of performing complex data analysis to identify problems or opportunities to improve supply chain performance
Strong knowledge of inventory management process and logistics, including metrics and analytics, in order to make a data informed decision.
Experience managing inventory and material movement through a 3rd party logistics provider.

Familiarity with inventory management principles, such as ROP, Safety stock and forecast based planning.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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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