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 operational reviews and driving internal alignment. You will drive clarity, data integrity, and decisions across the acquisition and planning activities, as well as help 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
• Provide clear, consistent communication on progress, status, and blockers

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 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 activities to deliver against infrastructure plans, objectives, and key results
• Drive tools and systems requirements for acquisition activities planning and tracking
• Drive data quality across reports and tooling
• Manage, track, and drive alignment with partner teams on critical project deliverables

QualificationsBasic Qualifications:

• 3+ years' experience in cross functional program management, especially in a strategy, planning and decision-making environment
• 3+ years' experience in data and analysis required for decision making
• 3+ years' experience in process optimization and mapping processes to tools
• 3+ 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
• 3+ year program management experience driving mission critical cross functional infrastructure projects with end-to-end dependencies
• Ability to translate ideas into clear, high impact communications (e.g. emails, papers)
• Knowledge of Hardware Products and Supply Chain
• Attention to detail, strong at strategic execution and tactical management
• Successfully collaborates across multiple teams and levels
• Strong analytical, financial acumen and communication skills with the ability to influence across non-direct reporting teams
• Ability to maintain good judgment in fast-paced, high-stress environments
• Ability to excel in an ambiguous environment

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HM: ADD three questions relevant to the ROLE for candidates applying (optional) :

• Do you have at least 5 years of cross-functional program management experience
• Do you have experience with supply chain or cloud infrastructure projects
• Do you have at least 5 years of process management experience

Background Check Requirements:
ESO and Tented roles:
Candidates must meet Microsoft, customer and government security background screening requirements for this role. These requirements currently include, but may change, and are not limited to:

• Microsoft Cloud Screen Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Screen background check upon hire/transfer and every two years after that while in this role.

Tented roles only - additional clearance requirements:

• Please contact LX Business Program Manager for current requirements.

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