Dc Procurement

DC Procurement - ANZ & NE Asia Sub Regional Leader Subsidised health insurance + stock discounts
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Microsoft Cloud Operations and Innovation (CO&I) is the team behind the cloud.
Within CO&I, the Engineering Procurement and Construction (EPC) team is responsible for delivering core datacenter infrastructure for Microsoft's cloud business.
The MS portfolio consists of complex, multi-disciplinary, large scale, multi-year datacenter construction and lease projects.
We are looking for a passionate, high-energy individual to help build the cloud datacenters that power the world's largest online services.
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.
Qualifications Required Qualifications Master's Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Supply Chain, Data Analytics, Business, Finance or related field AND 7+ years experience in Data Science/Analytics, Finance, Project Management, Supply Chain, and/or Operations OR Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Supply Chain, Data Analytics, Business, Finance or related field AND 9+ years experience in Data Science/Analytics, Finance, Project Management, Supply Chain, and/or Operations OR equivalent experience Preferred Qualifications Experience in industry like Data Center / Infrastructure / Power / Oil & Gas industry managing large capital projects with Contractors & Equipment supplier management. Experience in Supply Chain Management, Commercial Negotiations/Contracting and external Supplier/contractor Management across multiple projects spread across different locations. 5+ years People management experience leading a team. Responsibilities Role Summary The Sub-Regional DC Procurement Manager/Director establishes the development of multi-year sourcing strategies and protocols at scale for complex projects.
Leads the integration of business specifications and sourcing strategies.
Leads cross-functional contract negotiations across purchasing categories.
Drives business impact by establishing functional standards and procurement performance expectations.
Leads partnerships with global stakeholders and suppliers to identify systematic business threats and determine which sustainable elements, alternative solutions, and/or policy changes would optimally mitigate risks at scale moving forward.
Negotiates strategic oversight for improving existing, or establishing new, Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and/or defined milestones and deliverables, holds accountability and ownership with a company-wide perspective.
Provides high-level negotiation and sets standards across organizations and company.
Oversees and leads the pricing and negotiation strategies for the most complex and strategic purchasing categories, develops business groups for optimal cross-functional stakeholder support and business assurance, and broadly fosters internal and external partnerships to negotiate strategic decisions and produce deliverables.
Drives the execution of strategies for business engagements between teams and corporate leadership to determine supply strategy at scale.
Directs supplier activity and progress across the most complex and strategic accounts and purchasing categories.
In addition, this role has people management responsibilities including driving employee growth and development, executing projects, and managing performance.
Creates, maintains, and executes on procurement contracting strategies for multiple complex data center construction projects and/or purchasing opportunities to ensure optimal cost and sufficient continuity of supply and services.
Drives Equipment localization and cost productivity projects for the projects in assigned Sub-region.
Works across functionally with senior stakeholders and consults with other industry experts to inform strategy with a global view.
Leverages end-to-end sourcing and procurement expertise and benchmark data to identify, revise, and influence the definition of business requirements, manage conflicting priorities and trade-offs, and resolve escalations to execute on contracting strategies and solutions.
Actively partners with strategic sourcing and suppliers to identify and drive continuous improvement and risk management opportunities by evaluating procedural, operational, and/or environmental factors, analyzing root causes of issues, sharing insights with key stakeholders, and influencing the adoption of needed improvements.
Compliance Negotiates and provides strategic oversight for improving existing, or establishing new, Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and/or defined milestones and deliverables, holds accountability and ownership of SLAs with an end-to-end company-wide perspective, and ensures compliance is cascaded down to the business.
Strategizes on and communicates SLA terms cross-functionally and/or cross-regionally to internal and external stakeholders.
Serves as subject matter expert on the SLA and coaches team members to do the same, manages any escalations related to policy non-compliance, and manages the execution of contingency plans internally and externally as needed.
Leads partnerships with global stakeholders and suppliers to identify systematic business threats and determine which sustainable elements, alternative solutions, and/or policy changes would optimally mitigate risks at scale moving forward.
Champions new policy direction and changes as needed to ensure systematic resolution and remediation of sourcing issues across Microsoft and its partners.
Drives business impact by establishing functional standards and procurement performance expectations that define relevant process and compliance success metrics, while also identifying opportunities for improving process efficiency and policy compliance.
Applies end-to-end expertise and leverages market intelligence to develop and influence Microsoft-wide channel strategies that optimize for value and enable execution with consistency, accuracy, quality, and timeliness.
Leads decision making across organizations to determine optimum strategies for suppliers and partners to increase efficiency and manage costs, and drives accountability and governance for adopting workstream improvements and automation at scale to meet and surpass business expectations.
Provides high-level negotiation and sets standards across organizations and company.
Addresses unresolved or broadly impactful escalations related to pricing and category management issues, and proactively develops strategies to evaluate and drive change in processes broadly across the organization, as needed to ensure teams and/or partners adopt processes that improve the pricing and procurement of goods and services across Microsoft.
Manages price and procurement requests and complex pricing issues across purchasing categories to ensure procedural compliance.
Provides guidance and clarification on contract execution processes for consistency, accuracy, and timeliness across Microsoft.
Provides thought leadership and shares best practices on established methodologies to ensure they are aligned with and influence current and anticipated business outcomes, both internally and externally.
Drives accountability for resolving escalated contract delivery issues and monitoring the impact of change orders on contracting, and delivers briefings to executive leadership detailing current and projected sourcing contract execution models, anticipated risks, impact models, and contingency plans.
Sourcing Leads the integration of business specifications and sourcing strategies into supplier selection processes for the most complex, undefined, and strategic purchasing areas.
Leverages a company-wide, global end-to-end perspective on procurement and supplier operations to define a vision, strategies, and priorities for process management to drive consistency, impact, and improvements in supplier management efforts and outcomes (e.g., risk, cost, time, technology adoption) using data-driven approaches.
Proves proposed changes and holds teams accountable for developing and implementing improvement plans, sharing delivery best practices, and identifying insights and root causes of issues across procurement and buying processes.
Leads cross-functional contract and price negotiation activities across purchasing categories to ensure contracts reflect Microsoft's cross-functional engagements with suppliers, and establishes relevant enterprise-level best practices and standards.
Identifies systematic, long-term, and scalable cost reduction opportunities to drive supplier cost competitiveness across Microsoft and champions efforts to realize those opportunities across organizations.
Establishes and leads the development of multi-year sourcing strategies and protocols at scale for complex projects and/or purchasing opportunities company-wide, that are rooted in industry best practices and optimized for value, while ensuring continuity of supply and/or services.
Sets the vision and priorities for the function aligned to the core business goals, drives cross-functional alignment, and connects key resources across Microsoft, while ensuring risk mitigation plans are in place and driving efficiencies in budgets, time, and resources across the organization.
Ensures sourcing strategies account for relevant global perspectives by benchmarking data across markets, and sharing thought leadership with internal teams and executive leadership.
Stakeholder Collaboration Drives the execution of strategies for business and industry engagements between sourcing teams and cross-functional corporate leadership to determine supply strategy at scale.
Defines multi-year strategies for mature business, identifies opportunities to meet agility requirements, and enables business beyond standard purchase categories and historical spend areas.
Develops solutions for highly complex and undefined business areas and purchasing categories and adapts delivery plans with cross-functional leaders.
Leads industry and ecosystem engagements, proactively defines communication strategies with leadership teams, articulates business cases to support recommendations, and influences leaders to buy in on sourcing decisions and optimizations that can be deployed at scale.
Directs supplier activity and progress across the most complex and strategic accounts and purchasing categories.
Leverages corporate strategies to define overall objectives and strategies for supplier management practices to ensure alignment to Microsoft-wide business goals, and shares thought leadership that affects supplier engagement protocols and processes company-wide.
Considers broad enterprise engagement opportunities and future supplier and partner innovations, to further optimize for value.
Oversees and leads the pricing and negotiation strategies for the most complex and strategic purchasing categories, develops business groups for optimal cross-functional stakeholder support and business assurance, and broadly fosters internal and external partnerships to negotiate strategic decisions and produce deliverables.
Drives consensus in the goals and success criteria with stakeholders both internal and external to Microsoft, shares thought leadership and socializes best practices related to negotiation and collaboration to enable teams to execute negotiations with consistent success.
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