Program Manager

Job Description:
Cloud Operations + Innovation (CO+I) is seeking a program manager to support the Infrastructure Planning and Acquisition organization. CO+I is responsible for planning, building and operating Microsoft's cloud infrastructure datacenters across the globe. The organizational scope includes supply planning, business operations and strategic acquisition and prepositioning across land, power, and networking. You will partner closely with our infrastructure acquisition teams and be responsible for aligning and maintaining critical information to support our rapidly scaling global data center infrastructure. You will create, maintain, and track, project level information and be responsible for supporting land acquisition and development activities and driving clarity, data integrity, and decisions across the land acquisition and development activities, as well as with the engineering groups and drive process and systems optimization for the infrastructure planning process.
This role will focus on:

• Communicating prioritization and trade-off operational decisions to the cross-functional team to drive consensus, and ensure that those decisions are properly implemented
• Collecting, maintaining, and providing market and supply intelligence to drive optimal decision making
• Driving process and systems optimization for the infrastructure planning and execution process
• Building deep understanding of the organization and all related projects and initiatives
• Defining key work-streams and break down the work into manageable projects
• Managing risks and issues and taking corrective measurements
• Establishing and fostering strong working relationships with various stakeholders and teams

In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.ResponsibilitiesCore Responsibilities:

• Deliver, manage, and track land acquisition and land development activities aligned to delivering against our targets and infrastructure plans
• Drive key decisions required for alignment across teams
• Deliver a systematic process for creating, maintaining, tracking and reporting on land acquisition and development activities to deliver against infrastructure plans
• Drive tools and systems requirements for land acquisition and development activities planning and tracking
• Drive data quality across reports and tooling
• Manage, track, and drive alignment with partner teams on critical project deliverables

Qualifications Basic Qualifications:

• 4+ years' experience in cross functional program management, especially in a strategy, planning and decision-making environment
• 4+ years' experience in data and analysis required for decision making
• 4+ years' experience in process optimization and mapping processes to tools
• 4+ years demonstrated experience leading and managing a business-critical function
• BS/BA degree required;
• Excellent communication and leadership skills to drive projects, and build buy-in and support

Preferred Qualifications:

• Masters in an engineering field
• Background in real estate or land development
• 4+ year program management experience driving mission critical cross functional infrastructure projects with end-to-end dependencies
• Experience in planning cloud specific infrastructure

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