Job Description, Responsibilities & Requirements
About the Position
We are seeking a Sourcing Director to lead our team in ensuring continuity of supply for our new server hardware.
Responsibilities
- Managing sourcing strategy with your team and engage directly with internal stakeholders and suppliers to resolve any supply issues.
- Working closely with suppliers, you will remove obstacles and provide resources to create a favorable supply chain, review staffing, and influence supplier selection.
- Serve as an expert in tools and processes for managing supply and driving improvements, summarizing complex systems for senior leaders and overseeing standardization.
- Determine potential data sources for analyzing supply, review dashboards for presenting analysis, and design and streamline data management processes.
- Serve as a key point of contact between teams for senior leaders while communicating status, driving clarity, and anticipating future challenges.
Requirements
- Master's degree in Business, Supply Chain Management, Engineering, Materials Science, or related field AND 6+ 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 8+ years experience in procurement, supply chain, sourcing, engineering, operations, or relevant sales-related roles OR equivalent experience.
- Cross-functional leadership including product design, quality, and business teams to consult on and influence sourcing decisions and requirements with minimal guidance.
Nice to Have
- Sourcing or Supply chain work experience in tech hardware company (e.g., server OEM, ODM and other cloud service providers).
We Offer
- Full-Time employment
- Competitive salary
- Opportunity to work in a dynamic and innovative environment
About the Company
Microsoft’s Cloud business is expanding, and the Cloud Supply Chain (CSCP) organization is responsible for enabling the hardware infrastructure underlying this growth including AI! CSCP’s vision is to empower customers to achieve more by delivering Cloud and AI capabilities at scale. Our mission is to deliver the world's computer with an industry-leading supply chain. The CSCP organization is responsible for traditional supply chain functions such as plan, source, make, deliver, but also manages supportability (spares), sustainability, and decommissioning of datacenter assets worldwide. We deliver the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's over 200 online businesses including Bing, MSN, Office 365, Xbox Live, OneDrive and the Microsoft Azure platform for external customers. Our infrastructure is supported by more than 300 datacenters around the world that enable services for more than 1 billion customers in over 90 countries.
Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
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