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Microsoft’s Cloud business is expanding, and the Cloud Supply Chain (CSCP) organization is responsible for enabling the infrastructure underlying this growth including AI!

CSCP’s vision is to empower customers to achieve more by delivering Cloud Capacity Differentiated at Scale. Our mission is to deliver capacity for all cloud services predictably through intelligent systems driven by continuous learning and a world class organization. The CSCP Organization is responsible for traditional supply chain functions such as Plan, Source, Make, Deliver, but also manages supportability (spares), decommissioning and disposition of Data center assets worldwide. We deliver the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's over 200 online businesses including Bing, MSN, Office 365, Xbox Live, Skype, OneDrive and the Microsoft Azure platform for external customers. Our infrastructure is comprised of a large global portfolio of more than 200 datacenters supporting services for more than 1 billion customers in over 90 countries worldwide.

Cloud Manufacturing Operations and Fulfillment (CMOF) organization within CSCP manages business operations performance and supplies hardware to the data centers. Well-defined and executed supply chain management ensures reliable on-time performance, optimized cost, prevents urgent and unplanned investments, and provides accurate and timely information across the supply base and internally across the infrastructure organization. Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and delivering a trusted experience to customers and partners worldwide.

Within the CMOF organization, the Readiness Engineering & Sovereign (RE&S) organization plays a key role in the pre-dock readiness and First Footprint execution across GPU, Compute, Storage, as well as end-to-end Sovereign execution across CSCP. The role of Principal Program Manager will be responsible for driving strategic cross-functional transformations and business initiatives across the RE&S organization.

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.

Responsibilities

In this role, you will be leveraging your experience in the domain to deliver cloud capacity to our customers. The primary focus will be on deployment strategies, process improvements, operational excellence and engineering solutions that enable us to scale with predictability.

Provide thought leadership for the end-to-end Readiness Engineering function to drive faster time to market across multiple resource types and capacity expansion scenarios.

Identify business and technology transformation opportunities to drive increased efficiency and predictability in readiness engineering.

Definition of multi- year operations maturity roadmaps enabled through related solution/engineering roadmaps and delivery commitments. Provide guidance when working with Software and Hardware Engineering to design and integrated readiness solutions to crucial technical needs for multiple feature areas

Partner with key organizations across Engineering, Planning, Sourcing and New Product Introduction (NPI) to drive end-to-end improvements.

Drive capacity delivery with focus on speed and predictability

Create, manage and govern key strategic partnerships across the Cloud business between supply chain management, data center teams and engineering teams to drive the necessary orchestration and integration.

Lead roadmap discussions and business reviews at operational and executive levels through presentations and effective communications.

Mentor talent in the organization and contribute to the growth of organizational capability. Participate in interviewing, developing and managing talent.

Embody our Culture (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/culture) & Values (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/about/corporate-values)

Qualifications

Requierd Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree AND 6+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development o OR equivalent experience.

• 4+ years people management experience.

• 3+ years experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.

Other Qualifications:

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.

Preferred Qualifications:

• MBA/MS preferred

• Minimum of 10 years in technical program management and/or operations management in the Enterprise Cloud/Hitech domain.

• 8+ years experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.

• 1+ year(s) experience reading and/or writing code (e.g., sample documentation, product demos).

• Experience leading cross-functional initiatives with key stakeholders ex: Engineering, Operations, Planning and Deployment functions

• Leadership experience in the definition of multi-year cloud business and technical roadmaps, delivery of process/technology solutions, and operations excellence.

• Experience in leading large-scale programs, and a track record of successfully setting up and executing technology/supply chain operational processes ideally in the data center/server deployment domain.

• Experience with deriving insights and actions from data and driving process improvement based on those

• Ability to lead in ambiguous situations, and deal effectively with conflicting priorities and changes

• Proficient with performance analytics, and able to generate quality outputs for an executive audience.

• Experience in working with global and cross-functional internal and external teams in a fast-paced environment

• Experience in technical operations deployments and working with engineering organizations across a large technology enterprise

• Influencing skills and ability to build relationships across multiple layers in the organization

   Technical Program Management M5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $137,600 - $267,000 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $180,400 - $294,000 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until September 20, 2024.

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