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About the Role
Microsoft Cloud Operations and Innovation (CO&I) is responsible for delivering core datacenter infrastructure. The Engineering Procurement & Construction (EPC) organization within CO&I manages complex, large-scale datacenter construction and lease projects. This role focuses on enabling the delivery of Microsoft’s leased data center portfolio across EMEA by ensuring the availability of necessary suppliers, services, materials, commercial frameworks, and procurement capacity. The position combines strategic sourcing with hands-on procurement and supply-chain execution, working with various teams and suppliers to translate project demand into effective sourcing strategies and manage risks to ensure data center delivery is not constrained.
Responsibilities
- Develop and execute sourcing strategies for EMEA leased data center fit-out projects.
- Lead RFIs/RFPs, supplier selection, commercial evaluation, and negotiations.
- Build a competitive, resilient supplier ecosystem with sufficient capacity across EMEA.
- Improve commercial outcomes through benchmarking, aggregation, standardization, and supplier allocation.
- Manage lead times, material readiness, and supply-chain risks to protect project milestones.
- Ensure contracts, POs, change orders, and sourcing activities meet procurement controls and compliance requirements.
- Partner across key functions to resolve issues and support project delivery.
- Improve procurement through standardized processes, automation, AI-enabled analytics, dashboards, and reporting.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, Procurement, Construction Management, or a related field, and relevant professional experience in procurement, sourcing, supply chain, or commercial management.
- Experience developing sourcing strategies and managing competitive sourcing, negotiations, contracts, purchase orders, and suppliers.
- Experience translating complex project requirements and schedules into procurement and supply-chain plans, including managing supplier capacity, readiness, performance, and delivery risks.
- Stakeholder management, analytical, and communication skills, including experience working with senior stakeholders to deliver outcomes across complex, matrixed organizations.
- Experience managing competing priorities, resolving complex issues, improving processes, and building effective relationships with internal stakeholders and suppliers.
- 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
- Stakeholder management
- Analytical skills
- Communication skills
- AI prompting
- Data analysis
- Dashboard development
- Automated reporting
- Generating insights
Location
- United Kingdom
- Italy
- Spain
- Sweden
- Ireland
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- IC5
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree
Salary/Compensations
- United Kingdom: £ 70,300.00 - £ 133,900.00 per year
- Italy: € 85,700.00 - € 152,800.00 per year
- Spain: € 84,000.00 - € 149,500.00 per year
- Sweden: kr 834,000.00 - kr 1,421,000.00 per year
- Ireland: € 101,100.00 - € 151,700.00 per year
Benefits
- Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
About the Company
- Microsoft Cloud Operations and Innovation (CO&I) is the team behind the cloud.
- The MS portfolio consists of complex, multi-disciplinary, large scale, multi-year datacenter construction and lease projects.
- We are looking for a passionate, high-energy individual to help build the cloud datacenters that power the world’s largest online services.
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.