Sourcing Analyst

Jobinhalt

The Capacity Supply Chain and Provisioning (CSCP) group is an exciting and fast evolving group within Microsoft whose vision is to empower customers to achieve more by delivering cloud capacity differentiated at scale. The organization is responsible for planning, delivery and provision of all data centers globally powering Microsoft cloud properties. CSCP supports over 200 online businesses including Bing, O365, OneDrive, Xbox and Windows Azure branded services.

Cloud Sourcing and Supply Chain (CSSC) organization within CSCP manages sourcing and supply of IT hardware for the data centers. Well-defined and executed sourcing and supply chain management ensures reliable on-time performance, optimized cost, prevents urgent and unplanned investments, and provides accurate and timely information across the supply base and internally across the infrastructure organization. Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and delivering a trusted experience to customers and partners worldwide. We are looking for a passionate, high energy supply chain professional to help build create sustainable advantage through supply chain.

The role of Sourcing Analyst will be focusing on key areas:

• Cost and operations analytics (50%)
• Support sourcing management and strategy (30%)
• Drive organizational initiatives (20%)
  

Meanwhile, s/he needs to support strategic initiatives with internal stakeholders and suppliers to support cloud supply chain overall objectives and strategies

Responsibilities

• Cost and operations analytics
• Identify cost reduction opportunities with sourcing tools (e.g. Cost modeling)
• Run analytics for regular review on cost and operations KPIs and help define targets
• Provide cost and supply chain data for internal stakeholders, e.g., system integrators, planning team, finance
• Ensure sourcing input is successfully captured in the forecast planning system
• Support ad-hoc initiatives, e.g. tariffs / import export cost, cost inflation
• Continuous improvement of operations processes
• Sourcing management and strategy
• Perform market assessment and industry benchmarking to support sourcing strategy development
• Contribute ideas and proposals to ensure advantaged cost and sufficient continuity of supply while meeting quality goals (e.g., sustainability, repairability, etc.)
• Contribute to the development of mitigation plans that are robust to disruptions around manufacturing, geography/geopolitics, financial health, and/or major unavoidable events (e.g., climate events, COVID-19)
• Organizational initiatives
• Develop knowledge management structure and tools to drive usage and knowledge transferring
• Host forums of training and/or guest speaker sharing to promote team’s learning
• Establish forums of communication to share knowledge and enhance team’s awareness, e.g., bi-weekly industry news e-mail, site newsletter
• Propose and drive innovative/ad-hoc organizational initiatives upon request
  

Qualifications

Core skills:

• Basic knowledge in hardware sourcing and supply chain
• Demonstrated coordination and program management capabilities
• Strong influencing skills and ability to build lasting relationships across multiple layers in the organization
• Distinctive problem solving leadership and analytical thinking
• Proven capabilities in operating in a growing, fast-paced, results-oriented environment
• Excellent communication and synthesizing skills of both written and verbal
• Familiar with business tools (g. word, excel modeling, power point slides) and able to generate quality outputs
  

Major Experience

• 2+ years working experience in supply chain, operations, and project management fields
• Extensive experience in leading cross functional teams
• Cloud / high tech supply chain experience is a plus
  

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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