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Demand Planning Manager
Redmond, WA
Job Description
OverviewMicrosoft's Cloud business is experiencing explosive growth, and the Cloud Supply Chain (CSCP) organization is responsible for enabling the infrastructure underlying this growth. Our mission is to deliver the world's computer with an industry-leading supply chain. CSCP is responsible for strategic sourcing, customer demand forecasting, capacity planning and management, supply chain planning and execution, capacity provisioning, and decommissioning and dispositioning of datacenter assets worldwide.The Demand Planning team is a central function within CSCP with direct impact on Microsoft cloud business success. This team forecasts, plans, and drives capacity for the majority of Microsoft's cloud services and directly influences cloud user experience. As a central function, we work closely with partners across Engineering, Finance, Supply Chain, Data Centers, NPI and Deployment Engineering. We are looking for a seasoned Demand Planning Manager with great partner management skills, insight and supply chain knowledge, and executive presence to transform the relationships with our partners from meeting their stated requirements to meeting their needs while optimizing the efficiency of our Cloud offering.
ResponsibilitiesThis is a key role that leads plan development and engagement, while impacting customer capacity availability and the bottom-line cost for the Azure Business. There are three key areas to this roleTranslating usage and customer requirements into hardware units with an optimal capacity plan across Azure workloads.Managing shiproom or S&OE execution decisions to balance demand supply risksPartnering with a wide set of stakeholders including Software engineering, Finance, Supply Planning and Sourcing, and New Product Introduction teams to inform and influence, while delivering and balancing key measures such as plan accuracy, optimality, availability, and quality. A successful candidate for this role will leverage their analytical, leadership, and communication skills to deliver innovative solutions that will transform the way our customers interact with our products. Job ResponsibilitiesServe as the primary focal point with engineering team for all capacity topicsDevelop technical insights into the product, customer value, COGS and margin drivers to make well balanced data driven decisions for the businessProvide a clear forecast and prioritized capacity plan to the end-to-end execution teams and optimizing the plan for availability, business growth and costPartner with finance, execution, capacity management, software and hardware engineering teams to drive cluster decision to ensure right capacity is available in the right place at right timeOperationalize and drive the MBR (monthly business review) cadence for capacity planningLiaise with the hardware development organization to ensure SKU development and hardware roadmaps meet the business need by datesDrive continued process efficiencies and tooling improvements
ResponsibilitiesThis is a key role that leads plan development and engagement, while impacting customer capacity availability and the bottom-line cost for the Azure Business. There are three key areas to this roleTranslating usage and customer requirements into hardware units with an optimal capacity plan across Azure workloads.Managing shiproom or S&OE execution decisions to balance demand supply risksPartnering with a wide set of stakeholders including Software engineering, Finance, Supply Planning and Sourcing, and New Product Introduction teams to inform and influence, while delivering and balancing key measures such as plan accuracy, optimality, availability, and quality. A successful candidate for this role will leverage their analytical, leadership, and communication skills to deliver innovative solutions that will transform the way our customers interact with our products. Job ResponsibilitiesServe as the primary focal point with engineering team for all capacity topicsDevelop technical insights into the product, customer value, COGS and margin drivers to make well balanced data driven decisions for the businessProvide a clear forecast and prioritized capacity plan to the end-to-end execution teams and optimizing the plan for availability, business growth and costPartner with finance, execution, capacity management, software and hardware engineering teams to drive cluster decision to ensure right capacity is available in the right place at right timeOperationalize and drive the MBR (monthly business review) cadence for capacity planningLiaise with the hardware development organization to ensure SKU development and hardware roadmaps meet the business need by datesDrive continued process efficiencies and tooling improvements
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Start Date
As soon as possible
Employment Term and Type
Regular, Full Time
Required Experience
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