Microsoft · 5 hours ago
Sourcing Engineer
Redmond, WA
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
$120K/yr - $235K/yr
3+ years expMicrosoft is expanding its Cloud business and is seeking a passionate Sourcing Engineer to manage system integrators for Tier 1 System Integration supply chain. The role focuses on optimizing sourcing operations, managing supplier performance, and ensuring compliance while supporting sustainable initiatives across the supply chain.
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Responsibilities
Support the Sustainable Rack Packaging (SRP) strategic initiatives across the Tier I System Integrators (SI) supply chain
Represent SI Sourcing with the suppliers to ensure their adherence to MSFT requirements across functions, while building trust and influencing improvement to their operational performance
Represent SI Sourcing in various internal forums, and partner with teams on actions and deliverables
Engage across product design, quality, engineering, and operations to determine requirements for SIs
Contribute to architecting the supply chain for sustainable rack packaging that is resilient to disruptions and help develop mitigation plans to address geopolitical risk, seasonality, financial health, operational performance, and unplanned events
Collect, synthesize, and create fact-based insights to develop comprehensive and succinct leadership communications to help influence decision making and negotiations
Develop SI sourcing operations processes to deliver optimized financial, material, and information flows between Microsoft, the SI’s, and the packaging supplier
Work closely with planning and suppliers to understand demand and supply, design solutions for adjusting to plan changes, ensuring optimized capacity and mitigating possible inventory risks
Create robust financial models to evaluate complex transactions by engaging with internal and external stakeholders to clearly articulate the outcome of complex financial analyses
Supports the financial health of the supply chain through focus on the operational execution of critical processes with the SIs and packaging supplier, to include commodity settlements, invoice payments, excess material settlements, inventory reconciliation, and reworks
Synthesize supply chain operations and sourcing data, to enable cross-functional decision making and contingency planning to ensure continuity of supply, support of demand, and seamless operations
Collaborate with demand/capacity planning, deployment, logistics, finance, data center operations, and engineering teams
Manage ad-hoc and drive continuous improvement of operational processes and performance metrics
Develop and enable new suppliers
Ensure supplier compliant with Microsoft requirements (e.g. security, social responsibility, cost, quality, payment terms), holds suppliers accountable, and initiates corrective actions to drive improvement
Influence supplier performance through quarterly business reviews and Supply Chain interlocks of key performance indicators (KPIs)
Qualification
Required
Master's degree in Business, Supply Chain Management, Engineering, Materials Science, or related field AND 3+ years experience in procurement, supply chain, sourcing, engineering, operations, or relevant sales-related roles
OR Bachelor's degree in Business, Supply Chain Management, Engineering, Materials Science, or related field AND 4+ years experience in procurement, supply chain, sourcing, engineering, operations, or relevant sales-related roles
OR equivalent experience
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter
Preferred
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Supply Chain, Information Technology (IT), Business, Operations, Finance, Accounting, Data Science, or related field AND 4+ years supply chain, inventory management or sales operations experience, preferably in planning (demand/supply/forecasting), cloud industry experience, infrastructure, data science, and/or channel management experience
Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, Business Operations, OR related field AND 8+ years supply chain, planning (demand/supply/forecasting)
Preferably in cloud industry experience, infrastructure, and/or change management experience
Supply chain consulting experience
Consulting experience preferred
Packaging background
Manufacturing Engineering background
Benefits
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
Company
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