Job Category: Software Engineering: Program ManagementLocation: Redmond, WA, USJob ID: 840811-114384Division: Server & Tools Business
Description
Are you passionate about solving large scale supply chain problems in ever changing and rapidly growing cloud computing environment? Do you want to work in a fast-paced infrastructure supply chain team driving process and modeling innovations that span the entire infrastructure planning lifecycle - capacity planning, constrained supply planning, flow path modeling, inventory management and higher order simulations for all server and components in Windows Azure?The world is moving to cloud computing and Microsoft is betting the company on Windows Azure as its operating system for the cloud. The Windows Azure Infrastructure Team is at the forefront of the massive growth and innovation wave and we're in the midst of managing infrastructure supply chain planning on a global scale. We have an exciting opportunity for a seasoned Senior program manager Supply Chain, who is passionate about driving deeply strategic and tactical supply chain plans that span the breadth of the infrastructure stack.
Supply Chain is a key member of the team and is well positioned for expanded responsibility. This position will play a crucial role in Windows Azure Infrastructure planning team in re-inventing and leading best in class server & server component supply chain on a global basis. This position requires extensive cross-group collaboration and plays a crucial role in defining capacity planning, distribution planning, flow path modeling, and operations research on regional and global levels. In this highly visible role, you will identify trade-offs, work across disciplines and divisions, balance tactical and strategic initiatives, drive decisions, present to executives, work with partners, and get your hands dirty with direct operational experience.
Specifically, Supply Planning has the following responsibilities:
- Supply Chain SME: Serve as a functional expert in all aspects of distribution & capacity planning, inventory management, strategic sourcing models, cost trade off analysis and collaborative supply chain.
Operations Management: Experience with managing strategic and tactical relationships with multiple OEM’s, ODM’s; building statement of work and process management. Drive operations excellence across manufacturing and supply chain functions - drive key business / operations processes, milestone management and issue management for product launches
- Systems Architect: Serve as subject matter expert in designing and implementing world class supply chain planning software solution to automate strategic and tactical tasks so that the team can focus on applying higher-order business judgment.
- Communicate to leadership the recommended supply plan, including its underlying assumptions and strategic basis, upside and downside risk factors, and our plans for adapting to the unpredictable.
- Execute, measure and continuously improve key end-to-end supply chain performance indicators and maintain a culture of continuous improvement.
- Carry on the development of a team that can keep pace with the Azure infrastructure’s rapid global expansion.
This leader will have superb communications skills and the highest level of integrity and intellectual honesty. He or she will be gifted at inspiring confidence in the teams he/she directly manages, across the organization, and externally with large suppliers and vendors; this requires an exceptional ability to simplify complex concepts and to bring clarity to ambiguous situations.
Required Experience
- 7+ years progressive experience in various supply chain planning roles
- A proven track record of growth and increasing responsibility, specifically in acquiring scope/leading areas outside of planning (e.g. strategic sourcing).
- Experience managing a team that is building and validating data-oriented plans backed up by well-reasoned judgment.
- A proven track record of business intelligence or data mining experience.
- Experience managing large financial commitments.
- An ability to manage diversity of culture in organizations as well as a highly matrixed organizational structure.
- Hands-on leadership experience moving fluidly from long-term strategy to day-to-day tactical implementation.
- Experience attracting, hiring and maintaining top talent.
- Excellent communication, collaboration skills
- Outstanding systems thinking and design skills
- Experience with large scale OEM, ODM and commodity Supply Chain logistics
Personal Qualities
- Exhibits excellent judgment
- Hires great people; develops great people
- Has relentlessly high standards
- Thinks strategically, but stays on top of tactical execution
- Expects and requires innovation of her/his team
- Thinks big and has convictions
- Results-oriented
- Has the innate ability to inspire passion in others
Basic Qualifications
- Master’s degree in Operations, Industrial Engineering, Business or other related quantitative disciplines.
- 7+ years leading a supply planning or related data/decision sciences organization for a CE or hi-tech company
- Experience managing a team that is building and validating data-oriented plans backed up by well-reasoned judgment
ST:Azure
ST:SLR
Nearest Major Market: Seattle
Nearest Secondary Market: Bellevue
Job Segments: Program Manager, Engineer, Supply Chain Manager, Logistics, Cloud, Management, Engineering, Operations, Technology
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