ResponsibilitiesCreates, maintains, and executes material management for several construction projects performing purchasing responsibilities, ensuring continuity of supply and/or services. Integrates business specifications into request for information (RFI) and/or request for proposal (RFP) processes, manages supplier evaluation frameworks, and partners with suppliers to drive innovation and execution improvement. Supports contract and price negotiation activities and ensures alignment with cross-functional teams. Applies end-to-end understanding of procurement processes to drive business impact and leads decision-making around workstream processes. Ensures adherence to policy and collaborates with senior stakeholders to drive consistency across supply chain requests. Manages procurement execution while ensuring procedural compliance. Monitors the impact of complex change orders and drives supplier and contractor performance management. Develops negotiation strategies and facilitates early business engagements with cross-functional leadership. Manages supplier activity and external stakeholders to improve supplier performance.
Compliance
Ensures adherence to policy, educates stakeholders and suppliers on policy compliance, and contributes to the remediation and resolution of sourcing issues with minimal guidance.
Ensures consistency, timeliness, quality, and accuracy of deliverables in alignment with Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and/or defined milestones and deliverables. Communicates delays potential to stakeholders and executes contingency measures as directed.
Demonstrates an understanding of the tradeoffs between Microsoft and key suppliers, and drives business impact through the application of market intelligence and plans that enable execution with consistency, accuracy, quality and timeliness of delivery. Manages aspects of supplier scorecard process and strategic business reviews, and addresses issues with minimal guidance. Facilitates periodic Microsoft-driven supplier audits against policy/contractual requirements. Ensures the governance model maintains up to date sourcing and supplier data.
Procurement and Contracts
Route contracts and Change Orders via workflow process or technology in support of product and service requirements. Executes contracts and complies with established control processes as directed within an assigned purchasing category. Identifies risks and roadblocks to contract execution, monitors the impact of change orders, and escalates their resolution cross-functionally, including Legal and Corporate Affairs, or to senior sourcing personnel as needed. Ensures supplier performs the work in accordance with requirements set forth in the contract.
Processes or supports stakeholder procurement requests for purchasing categories via engagement and/or leveraging workflow process or technology, where applicable in support of product and service requirements with minimal guidance. Route original Purchase Orders as well as any subsequent Change Orders via workflow process or technology in support of product and service requirements, with minimal guidance. Escalates the resolution of pricing issues to senior sourcing personnel. Audits supplier work in accordance with requirements set forth in the Purchase Order.
Stakeholder Collaboration
Supports business engagements for low-risk and/or well-defined business areas or purchasing categories with cross-functional leadership, including product design, quality, and business teams, to advise on supply solutions and strategies, business requirements, and priorities with minimal guidance.
Collaborates with suppliers and internal Microsoft compliance stakeholders and performs active care as directed, to assist them through on-boarding. Serves as a contact point between a supplier and Microsoft for a set of well-defined accounts within the same purchasing category.
Develops the pricing and negotiation strategies for a well-defined purchasing category, ensures that strategy is clearly articulated cross-functionally, and gains appropriate executive support for strategies both internally and externally with minimal guidance.
QualificationsRequired/minimum qualifications
- Master's Degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, Data Analytics, Business, Finance or related field
- OR Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, Data Analytics, Business, Finance or related field AND 1+ year(s) experience (including internships) in data science/analytics, finance, project management, supply chain, and/or operations
- OR equivalent experience.
Background Check 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 thereafter.
Additional or preferred qualifications
- Experience at active construction environment
- Candidate is willing to travel between local sites (not a single assigned office at one location)
- Certified Purchasing Manager Certification
- Experience at active construction environment
- Candidate is willing to travel between local sites (not a single assigned office at one location)
- Certified Purchasing Manager Certification
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Sourcing and Category 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
Sourcing and Category Management IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $116,900 - $203,600 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 $148,400 - $222,600 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.
This role will be located on-site at one of the following Data Center Campuses: Elkhart, IN; Columbus, OH; San Antonio, TX; Dulles, VA; Phoenix, AZ; San Jose CA; Quincy or Wenatchee WA
Relocation support will be provided, and successful candidates must relocate or reside within 50 miles of the hub office location
