Microsoft · 1 day ago
Demand Planner
United States, Texas, Austin
Full-time
Hybrid
Entry, Mid Level
$77K/yr - $152K/yr
2+ years expMicrosoft is expanding its Cloud business, and the Cloud Supply Chain organization is responsible for enabling the hardware infrastructure underlying this growth including AI. The Demand Planner role focuses on forecasting, demand planning, and supply planning for all Microsoft Cloud services, ensuring high availability and optimized performance for Azure customer workloads.
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Responsibilities
In this role, you will be collaborate with Engineering teams to develop a rolling 24-month cloud capacity/demand plan for internal services via a combination of statistical modeling and consensus demand planning. These services are vital to ensuring high availability, optimized performance, and seamless failover for Azure customer workloads. The primary focus will be:
Align assumptions with Engineering Groups, Finance, and Azure Networking teams to develop a rolling 24-month forecast as part of monthly planning process
Develop technical insights into the product, customer value, COGS and margin drivers to make well balanced data driven decisions for the business
Manage demand for high priority events and identify business trends affecting future demand
Work closely with the short-term planning team to enable successful on time deployment of capacity
Explain drivers of month-over-month change, and corresponding financial impact
Drive automation for the internal services’ forecasting and planning process
Perform ad-hoc analysis for critical business needs
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Supply Chain, Information Technology (IT), Business, Operations, Finance, Accounting, Data Science, or related field AND 2+ 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
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
Preferred
Hands-on experience moving fluidly from long-term strategy to day-to-day tactical implementation
Passionate about Cloud Computing and willing to dive into in-depth technical discussions
Excellent communication skills and the ability to effectively manage key stakeholders, resolve problems and seek practical solutions
Proficiency in Enterprise Planning systems (such as SAP, Oracle, E2Open, etc.) and business intelligence engines (SQL, Power BI, Power Pivot, Tableau, etc.) are highly desired for this role
A proven track record of growth and increasing responsibility, specifically in acquiring scope/leading areas in supply chain and capacity planning
Experience in Demand planning and good understanding of different supply chain models and being able to manage multiple projects simultaneously is preferred
Company
Microsoft
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