Senior Business Strategy Manager
Redmond, WA 
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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.Cloud Sourcing, Spares, Sustainability & Security (CS4) 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 create sustainable advantage through supply chain. 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.
ResponsibilitiesThe role of Senior Business Strategy Manager will be focusing on key areas: Drive direction: Provide thought-leadership and define strategic agenda for Microsoft Cloud Supply ChainPerform analysis and develop recommendation: collect external and internal cross-functional data, drive analysis, identify gap, recommend improvement actionsManage strategy projects: Partner with cross-functional teams to drive actions, bring strategy to life and deliver resultsInfluence and communicate: Lead executive-level communication and influence cross-functional stakeholdersConduct analysis, synthesize findings, develop recommendations to drive supply chain strategies. Topics ranging from industry intelligence and benchmarking, mid to long-term operations/ supply chain optimization, to firefighting and resolving short-term Supply Chain and Sourcing challengesLead cross-functional teams to drive implementation of strategic projects: from defining plan, monitoring progress, tracking KPI, removing roadblock to delivering result and institutionalizePartner with Supply Chain, Sourcing and Engineering teams to ensure supply chain resiliency is built-in at product launch, with diversified supply base and geographyLead executive communications to drive strategic agenda and report progressEngage with cross functional teams on Supply chain and Sourcing related initiatives, e.g., Sustainability, government policyServe as trusted advisor and support other Supply Chain and Sourcing teams to form strategic agenda and executive communicationsEmbody our Culture and Values

 

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