About the Role
Microsoft's Cloud Supply Chain (CSCP) organization is responsible for enabling the hardware infrastructure for Microsoft's growing Cloud and AI businesses. CSCP's vision is to empower customers to achieve more by delivering Cloud and AI capabilities at scale, with a mission to deliver the world's computer with an industry-leading supply chain. Microsoft Cloud Planning (MCP) is the central planning function within CSCP, focusing on forecasting, demand planning, and supply planning for all Microsoft Cloud services and associated hardware.
Responsibilities
- Own the creation, maintenance, and execution of the AI demand plan, ensuring alignment with business priorities, capacity, and strategic objectives.
- Partner with supply and engineering teams to assess supportability, identify capacity constraints, and mitigate risks impacting delivery commitments.
- Drive cross-functional alignment by gathering and validating required dependencies, prerequisites, and inputs to de-risk demand planning and execution.
- Identify complex business and technical challenges, evaluate tradeoffs, and partner with Product, Software, and Hardware Engineering teams to develop scalable solutions.
- Lead demand plan adjustments and prioritization decisions in response to changing business requirements, market conditions, and organizational objectives.
- Develop and leverage data-driven insights, capacity models, and risk indicators to support decision making, scenario planning, and executive reviews.
- Collaborate with Software and Hardware Engineering teams to define architecture considerations and integrated solutions that address complex operational and technical challenges.
- Establish, track, and report key performance indicators (KPIs), objectives and key results (OKRs), and operational health metrics to measure execution success and business outcomes.
- Program manage large-scale cross-organizational initiatives and governance forums, including agenda development, stakeholder alignment, meeting facilitation, action tracking, and executive communications.
- Influence stakeholders across multiple organizations to drive accountability, execution excellence, and continuous improvement in planning processes.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Supply Chain, Information Technology (IT), Business, Operations, Finance, Accounting, Data Science, or related field AND 6+ years supply chain, inventory management or sales operations experience, preferably in planning (demand/supply/forecasting), cloud industry experience, infrastructure, data science, and/or channel management experience OR equivalent experience.
- 2+ year of experience developing Power BI dashboards, reports, or data visualizations and/or leveraging AI solutions, copilots, or intelligent agents to improve business processes and decision-making.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements.
- Must pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Supply Chain, Information Technology (IT), Business, Operations, Finance, Accounting, Data Science, or related field AND 12+ years supply chain, inventory management or sales operations experience, preferably in planning (demand/supply/forecasting), cloud industry experience, infrastructure, data science, and/or channel management experience OR equivalent experience.
- Demonstrated analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to synthesize complex information, identify trends, and drive continuous process improvement.
Skills
- Demand planning
- Supply planning
- Forecasting
- Power BI
- AI solutions
- Copilots
- Intelligent agents
- Data analysis
- Problem-solving
- Process improvement
Location
- U.S.
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 6+ years
- 12+ years
Education Level
- Bachelor's Degree
Salary/Compensations
- USD $116,900 - $203,600 per year (U.S. typical base pay)
- USD $148,400 - $222,600 per year (San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area)
Benefits
- Eligible for benefits and other compensation
About the Company
- 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.
Equal Opportunity
- 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.
