Microsoft

Senior Operations Program Manager - CoreAI

Microsoft • $97K — $188K *
Redmond, WA 98052In-Person
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Less than 5 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Business, Operations, Finance, or related field AND 4+ years experience in program management or process improvement.
  • Proven analytical skills with standard reporting and BI tool experience.
  • Strong stakeholder management abilities across senior leadership and operational teams.
  • Experience in driving simplification, standardization, and automation.
  • Effective communication skills to influence cross-functional partners.

Responsibilities

  • Lead procurement operations for external staffing and software.
  • Develop outsourcing strategies and manage vendor relationships effectively.
  • Optimize costs through strategic sourcing and performance management.
  • Maintain oversight of contracts, spend, and vendor dependencies.
  • Standardize workflows for finance, legal, and procurement processes.

Benefits

  • Health, dental, and vision insurance coverage.
  • Generous retirement plan with company matching.
  • Flexible work hours and remote work opportunities.
  • Employee wellness programs and mental health support.
Full Job Description
Overview

The CoreAI Senior Operations Program Manager leads end-to-end procurement operations for external staffing and third-party software. The role develops outsourcing strategies, optimizes vendor spend, simplifies procurement workflows, and provides leadership with clear visibility into budgets, supplier performance, dependencies, and risk.

Responsibilities
  • Serve as a member of CoreAI's Procurement-as-a-Service team, owning strategy, spend management, and end-to-end execution for external staffing and third-party software procurement.
  • Partner with cross-functional stakeholders (e.g. Business managers , senior team leader, vendor champs ) to Define outsourcing strategy for each group. Leverage preferred suppliers. Drive collaboration with vendor champs to Identify duplication across teams and consolidate vendors for efficiency and leverage
  • Drive cost optimization opportunities through strategic sourcing, including master agreements, pricing initiatives. competitive bidding, schedule commitments, risk allocation, claims resolution, and performance management. PO submission, manage invoices, renewals, and financial tracking.
  • Apply value engineering, market intelligence, competitive bidding, and supplier relationship management to reduce costs while maintaining quality and reliability standards.
  • Maintain a consolidated view of vendors, contracts, spend, and dependencies. Track budgets, forecasts, and risks across vendor engagements to support fiscal-year planning, budgeting, and trade-off decisions related to vendor spend.
  • Inventory all roles, groups, and resources then drive a burn down plan to eliminate duplication, consolidate access paths.
  • Act as a single point of contact so teams don't navigate finance, legal, and procurement separately. Standardized workflows and streamline intake, approvals, and onboarding
  • Establish procurement governance, forecasting, reporting, and operational metrics to provide leadership visibility into spend, schedule, supply chain health, and program risks.
  • Supplier performance governance through procurement manager engagement at Corp level, escalation management, recovery planning, and continuous improvement initiatives to ensure delivery, quality, and cost objectives are achieved.
  • Build and maintain strategic partnerships with key suppliers to improve supply assurance, increase flexibility, accelerate deployment schedules, and strengthen long-term capacity planning.


Key Outcomes / Measures of Success
  • Procurement and fiscal year planning deliverables are completed on time and aligned with approved strategies.
  • Timely business insights that support leader budget planning, improve decision quality, and drive accountability for execution.
  • Positive stakeholder signals reflect stronger role clarity, operational effectiveness, and business partnership.


Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's Degree in Business, Operations, Finance, or related field AND 4+ years experience in program management, process management, or process improvement
    • OR equivalent experience.


Other Requirements:

  • 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


Preferred Qualifications:
  • Ability to translate business strategy into clear execution plans. Self-motivated and proven problem-solving skill. Detail oriented and great organization skill.
  • Proven analytical capability with experience using standard reporting, BI tools, and data-driven insights to support leadership decisions.
  • Proven stakeholder management skills across senior leaders, Business Manager, Finance, Procurement, Legal and legal Operations teams.
  • Ability to drive simplification, standardization, automation, and adoption of scalable operating models.
  • Proven communication skills, including the ability to simplify complex operational topics and influence cross-functional partners.
  • Growth mindset, inclusive leadership behaviors, learning agility, and comfort operating in a fast-changing, matrixed environment.
  • Experience in business operations and procurement processes.
  • Work experience in products team as Engineering or PM
  • Experience working with senior business leaders and cross-functional stakeholders to drive governance, planning, reporting, and performance management.
  • Familiarity with AI-enabled transformation, automation, standardized reporting.


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Business Program Management IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $97,600 - $188,400 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 $125,000 - $206,400 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

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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Size
181,000 employees
Market Cap
$1,762.4 billion
Industry
Enterprise Technology
Net Income
$51.3 billion
Founded
1975
5 Year Trend
+15.5%
Revenue
$153.2 billion
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