Microsoft · 1 month ago
Senior Medium-Term Demand Planner
United States, Washington, Redmond
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid, Senior Level
$117K/yr - $204K/yr
4+ years expMicrosoft is expanding its Cloud business, and the Cloud Supply Chain (CSCP) organization plays a crucial role in supporting this growth. The Senior Medium-Term Demand Planner will be responsible for leading capacity planning and ensuring alignment across various teams to meet customer needs while optimizing for availability, revenue, and cost.
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Responsibilities
Lead planners in different resource types to develop a capacity plan that meets customer needs, while maintaining compliance to supply and execution policies, throughput capacities and contractual requirements
Providing a clear forecast and prioritized signal to the end to end execution teams
Own the relationship with the supply chain and execution team. Set flexibility and throughput targets, while also comprehending and incorporating their capabilities and constraints
Optimizing the plan for availability, revenue and cost
Partner with engineering-specific planners, supply chain, finance, data center operations, cloud server hardware, S&OP and networking teams to ensure all functions act in alignment with common goals
Envision and drive core measures as outputs from the group, as well as key input measures from other teams
Apply advanced analytics concepts toward rich insights and key financial and strategic decisions
Develop a prioritization framework across strategic projects, customer needs, risks and capacities and can solve for cost and other tradeoffs
Analyze and identify gaps in current midterm planning process. Drive process improvements and transformations with stakeholder alignment
Qualification
Required
Master's degree in Business, Supply Chain Management, Engineering, Materials Science, or related field AND 3+ years experience in procurement, supply chain, sourcing, engineering, operations, or relevant sales-related roles OR Bachelor's degree in Business, Supply Chain Management, Engineering, Materials Science, or related field AND 4+ years experience in procurement, supply chain, sourcing, engineering, operations, or relevant sales-related roles OR equivalent experience
3+ years' experience with cross functional coordination, including experience partnering with data scientists, developers, and program managers to drive continual improvement
3+ years' of Supply Chain Expertise: Experience in planning, forecasting, designing or analyzing supply chain challenges
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
8+ years' experience with cross functional coordination, including experience partnering with data scientists, developers, and program managers to drive continual improvement
Leadership: You need to be an expert at leading cross-functional teams on complex projects with many variables
Supply Chain Expertise: Experience in planning, forecasting, designing or analyzing supply chain challenges
Generating clarity: This is one of the most important aspects of what we do. Our job is to align everyone on the same plan and keep them there. This requires constant communication and diligence to squash any ambiguity
Power BI, Metrics and Analytics: Are you able to identify themes and learnings out of data? Define the essence of a function and measure its success? Provide KPI that are clear to understand and can drive decision making
Results: Are you a doer who can span from strategic thinking to getting stuff done and consistently delivering. Ultimately ensuring capacity availability at the right cost and minimal surprises or churn
Communications and Influencing: Can you build relationships and influence people - from execs to individuals, across business and technical disciplines? Are you equally adept at leading cross-functional meetings or building rapport and personal connection in 1:1 conversations
Collaboration: Excellent collaboration and partnering skills are essential. Great collaborators aren't just easy to work with - they also raise tough questions, challenge others as necessary and negotiate win/win solutions
Significant analytical depth supported by experience with several of the following: SQL; advanced Excel modeling; statistical tool kits such as R, MiniTab, or SAS; data-lakes; Kusto; PowerBI. Proven experience analyzing data, then aggregating and visualizing it for executive audiences
Demonstrated experience designing algorithms, OKRs, and models in a supply chain setting
Background working with complex enterprise data sets
Understanding of statistics, including background with different types of modeling
Proven ability to build successful partnerships across diverse disciplines is a strong differentiator
Technical fluency including basic understanding of Cloud concepts: large scale platforms, distributed services, hardware, and data centers
Company
Microsoft
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