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Senior Supply Chain NPI Program Manager
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Jan 10, 2025 | |
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OverviewMicrosoft's Cloud business is expanding, and the Cloud Supply Chain (CSCP) organization is responsible for enabling the infrastructure underlying this growth. Our mission is to deliver capacity for all cloud services predictably through intelligent systems driven by continuous learning and world class organization. The CSCP organization is responsible for traditional supply chain functions such as plan, source, make, deliver, but also manages spares, decommissioning, and disposition of data center assets worldwide. This Senior Supply Chain New Product Introduction (NPI) Program Manager role presents an exciting opportunity to influence a part of the cloud business. As part of the Supply Chain NPI team, this role will be responsible for utilizing technical understanding to effectively launch new cloud solutions and improve time to scale. This role will act as a key point-of-contact across Supply Chain, Engineering Business Groups and Hardware Infrastructure Engineering (HIFE) Groups to deliver scalable execution. As Microsoft's cloud business continues to grow, the ability to deploy new offerings and hardware (HW) infrastructure on time, in high volume with high quality and lowest cost is of paramount importance. 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. In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.
ResponsibilitiesIn this role, you'll oversee supply chain NPI for new cloud solutions, focusing on collaboration with product teams, engineering group, datacenter infrastructure teams, and supply chain functions to lead with an agile NPI framework that ensures customer requirements are met. Specific duties would include: Utilizing technical expertise to engage effectively with Engineering, ensuring schedule, risk, issues, quality, and changes meet business and customer needsOperating effectively in ambiguity by applying process where it's valuable, clear, and simplifies execution.Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to define a supply chain NPI readiness strategy Conducting cost-benefit analyses to examine performance and influence decisionsUnderstanding the product's technical attributes, NPI milestones, deliverables, and interdependencies to make informed decisionsUsing program management tools and communication methods to ensure all stakeholders share a common understanding of the plan-of-record | |