Senior Medium-Term Demand Planner

Plan Transformation Lead

Microsoft'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. Microsoft Cloud Planning (MCP) is the central planning function within CSCP focused on forecasting, demand planning, and supply planning for all Microsoft Cloud services and associated hardware, directly impacting the success of Microsoft's cloud business.

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.

Responsibilities

As a Plan Transformation Lead, you will be responsible for :

• Leading planners in different resource types to develop a capacity plan that meets customer needs, while maintaining compliance to supply and execution policies, throughput capacities and contractual requirements.
• Providing a clear forecast and prioritized signal to the end to end execution teams.
• Owning the relationship with the supply chain and execution team. Setting flexibility and throughput targets, while also comprehending and incorporating their capabilities and constraints.
• Optimizing the plan for availability, revenue and cost.
• Partnering with engineering-specific planners, supply chain, finance, data center operations, cloud server hardware, S&OP and networking teams to ensure all functions act in alignment with common goals.
• Envisioning and driving core measures as outputs from the group, as well as key input measures from other teams.
• Applying advanced analytics concepts toward rich insights and key financial and strategic decisions.
• Developing a prioritization framework across strategic projects, customer needs, risks and capacities and can solve for cost and other tradeoffs.
• Analyzing and identifying gaps in current midterm planning process. Driving process improvements and transformations with stakeholder alignment.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications :

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Preferred Qualifications :

Sourcing Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $158,400 - $258,000 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here : https : / / careers.microsoft.com / us / en / us-corporate-pay

Single reqs : Microsoft will accept applications for the role until October 30, 2025.

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