New 
Senior Strategic Sourcing Engineer
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Jul 22, 2025 | |
|
OverviewMicrosoft'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.The Cloud Sourcing, Spares, Security and Sustainability (CS4) organization within CSCP manages sourcing, strategy, and suppliers to provide cost, flexibility, and supply advantages that enable our org to become a world-class supply chain. Well-defined and executed sourcing and supply chain management ensures reliable, on-time performance and 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. 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.
ResponsibilitiesProgram Management* Manages internal and external cross-functional partnerships, monitors and resolves internal partner's issues without additional escalation, defines processes and governance for on-boarding and managing supplier partnerships, influences near-term sourcing decisions by discussing details and implications (e.g., tradeoffs, pricing), and seeks to align investments with supply needs to ensure continuity of supply in alignment with product and/or service roadmaps.Strategic Sourcing* Sets savings targets for managed categories. Supports cost and supply chain operations needs relevant to contract manufacturers and/or system integrators (e.g., invoice, buffer strategy, technology transitions, qualification planning, approved vendor list, meets or exceeds technical standards). Makes and delivers to budget commitments.* Ensures that supply chains are robust to disruptions and that mitigation plans are in place that can address issues with manufacturing, geography/geopolitics, seasonality, financial health, performance, and/or major unavoidable events (e.g., climate events, COVID-19) by sharing personal expertise and best practices. Serves as a primary point of escalation for leading the resolution of supply chain continuity issues.* Researches markets, competitors, and industry trends. Performs analyses of supplier pricing, cost, capabilities, and capacity to provide materials and/or components for Microsoft products and/or services, and uses the results to make sourcing recommendations for sourcing strategies for one or more product categories.* Makes recommendations for investments in new technologies, initiatives, components, and/or materials that are critical to products and/or services based on technical expertise in those products/services, suppliers, and industry trends. Acquires buy in from stakeholders to ensure that resources are in place and influences the adoption of technologies across specific product categories based on needs of Microsoft products or services. Makes recommendations for extending the life of existing investments.* Defines, maintains, and executes on sourcing strategy for one or more complex product categories to ensure advantaged cost and sufficient continuity of supply while meeting quality goals (e.g., sustainability, repairability, etc.). Considers all relevant elements of technical roadmaps and business requirements (e.g., risk management, investments, supplier relationship, technology adoption) and partners with cross-functional teams to develop sourcing strategies and influence product-making decisions.Supplier Management* Manages the financial health of a product category by engaging cross-functionally early in the development stage of products and programs, and developing plans to mitigate risks and capitalize on opportunities. Compares suppliers' quoted costs and total costs of ownership with expected cost benchmarks and what products should cost, to forecast future state of the business, evaluates the systematic cost implications of sourcing decisions across product categories, and manages the resolution of complex ad hoc cost issues (e.g., tariffs/import export cost, cost inflation). Makes and delivers to budget commitments.* Integrates business specifications for complex product categories into request for information (RFI) and/or request for proposal (RFP) processes. Collaborates cross-functionally to define and manage supplier scorecard criteria (e.g., key performance indicators [KPIs], Service Level Agreements [SLAs]). Recommends opportunities for suppliers to innovate, improve, and transform operational capabilities.* Manages contract and price negotiation activities and strategies for complex product categories, ensuring that price, capacity, and business needs are met, appropriate risk mitigation measures are defined, and that suppliers are consistently driving costs competitiveness. Where appropriate, ensures compliance with Microsoft's requirements for cross-functional engagements with suppliers. Makes and delivers to budget commitments.* Serves as Microsoft's central point of contact for suppliers within assigned product categories, leads the enablement and development of new suppliers, defines, and evaluates supplier financial health and key performance indicators (KPIs), leads regular business reviews with suppliers to ensure consistent compliance with Microsoft business requirements (e.g., security, social responsibility, payment terms), manages and holds suppliers accountable for exceptions to quality requirements, drives timely corrective actions from business reviews and audits, and facilitates efforts to drive suppliers toward their operational and cost metrics.* Evaluates end-to-end supply chain operations, market conditions, and sourcing data to inform cross-functional decision making that enables continuous supply of products, components, and/or materials as needed to meet business and consumer demand. May flag risks, issues, and other critical factors related to suppliers' supply chain for senior management to inform sourcing decisions for components and/or materials for Microsoft devices. Evaluates root cause of risks, issues, and other factors related to supply chain and communicates findings to senior leaders.Technical Engagement* Recommends and/or influences with minimal guidance whether or not to introduce new technologies, materials, or components for Microsoft products or cloud infrastructure based on the availability of supply, supplier capability and capacity, competitive and industry trends, and the impact on profits and losses. Evaluates long-term business needs, technology maturity, and tradeoffs to influence decision making and suggests processes for implementing changes.* Supports early engagements with cross-functional leadership including product design, quality, and business teams to determine sourcing requirements for system integrators. Provides consultation and influences engineering design teams on the choice of materials and/or components that can be reliably sourced for products or service infrastructure, and highlights systemic implications of sourcing decisions beyond a single component.* Embody our culture and values. | |