Senior Program Manager

Cloud Operations + Innovation (CO+I) is seeking a Senior 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 and planning 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 across horizontal initiatives. 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.
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• 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

Qualifications Required Qualifications:

• 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.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 5+ year program management experience driving mission critical cross functional infrastructure projects with end-to-end dependencies
• 5+ years' experience in data and analysis required for decision making
• 5+ years' experience in process optimization and mapping processes to tools
• 5+ years demonstrated experience leading and managing a business-critical function
• Proven ability to translate ideas into clear, high impact communications (e.g. emails, papers)
• Knowledge of Hardware Products and Supply Chain
• Strong analytical, financial acumen and communication skills with the ability to influence across non-direct reporting teams

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.
Demand Planning IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $91,800 - $178,800 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 $117,900 - $195,000 per year.
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