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About the Role

Microsoft's Cloud Supply Chain (CSCP) organization is responsible for enabling the hardware infrastructure for the company's expanding Cloud and AI businesses. The Spares Supply Chain team is transforming the cloud service parts supply chain to ensure timely availability of spare parts for global capacity requirements.

Responsibilities

Own end-to-end demand, supply, inventory, and lifecycle planning for assigned commodities, platforms, or services.
Develop and execute supply strategies balancing availability, cost, inventory health, and business risk.
Lead material readiness and planning execution for NPI, scale-out, sustainment, transition, Last Time Buy (LTB), and End-of-Life (EOL) activities.
Drive cross-functional programs from planning through execution, managing schedules, dependencies, milestones, risks, and stakeholder alignment.
Ensure deployment readiness by coordinating material, spares, capacity, and infrastructure availability.
Monitor inventory health, forecast accuracy, excess and obsolete inventory, supply constraints, and capacity risks; implement corrective actions.
Partner with engineering, sourcing, suppliers, finance, operations, deployment, and business leaders to align priorities and drive execution.
Proactively identify supply chain, lifecycle, and operational risks; lead mitigation strategies, continuity planning, and risk-buy recommendations.
Leverage data analytics, planning systems, and dashboards to generate actionable insights and drive fact-based decision making.
Define, track, and report key business metrics, providing regular updates on program performance, inventory, risks, and operational readiness.
Lead process improvement and automation initiatives to increase planning efficiency, scalability, data quality, and operational excellence.
Serve as the central coordination point across multiple organizations, influencing decisions through strategic recommendations and executive-level communication.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Supply Chain, Information Technology (IT), Business, Operations, Finance, Accounting, Data Science, or related field AND 4+ 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.
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.

Skills

Planning
Life Cycle management
Reporting for Supply Chain Optimization
Inventory planning
Multi-echelon inventory optimization
Supply chain hardware engineering
Gathering, analyzing, and defining demand and supply variables
Operational execution
Deployment & service of high-performance, highly available, large-scale server hardware, network devices, and related technologies
Cloud infrastructure and datacenter issues (physical space, rack units, break-fix requirements, incident management)
Managing competing priorities
Working under pressure with minimal guidance
Process/system background
Rapidly understand, use, and drive improvements in new processes/systems
Technical problem-solving
Communication skills
Process engineering
Automation
Working in a fast-paced dynamic environment
Critical thinking
Driving resolution in ambiguous situations
Detail-oriented
Communicating complex problems and solutions
Collaboration
Bias for action
Working with numbers
Business judgment
Executive communication/presentation skills
Persistent attention to detail
Key IT and service industry concepts
Analytical capabilities
Time-series modeling
Optimization
Statistical analysis
Program management methodologies, process, and tools
ERP/MRP systems (SAP or comparable)

Experience Level

4+ years supply chain, inventory management or sales operations experience
8+ years supply chain, inventory management or sales operations experience (preferred)

Education Level

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Supply Chain, Information Technology (IT), Business, Operations, Finance, Accounting, Data Science, or related field

Salary/Compensations

USD $97,600 - $188,400 per year (U.S. typical base pay range)
USD $125,000 - $206,400 per year (San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area base pay range)

Benefits

Certain roles may be 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.