Senior Strategic Sourcing Manager
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Sep 04, 2025 | |
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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.
ResponsibilitiesEstablish the appropriate Supply Chain and Quality pillar in the Sourcing Strategy with cross-functional stakeholders to drive long-term goals of Technology Adoption, Quality, and Reliability for networking products and supply chain.Engage early with Microsoft network architects, engineering, NPI, and program/product management teams to establish product performance, quality, and reliability requirements.Capture Microsoft's Network Sourcing and Quality standards and drive high availability and competitive advantage in Microsoft cloud offerings.Articulate expectations with partners to drive quality and reliability into the new product development, validation, qualification, and introduction cycle.Provide thought-leadership and manage strategic initiatives with internal stakeholders and partners' teams to support cloud supply chain objectives and strategies.Work with Microsoft sourcing teams, networking OEMs, networking silicon, and AECs/optical module, cable/interconnect suppliers, and System Integrators to co-develop, introduce, and scale volume into the datacenters.Establish infrastructure to measure quality performance, repeatability, and improvements.Provide KPIs throughout the supply chain; OEMs, ODMs, hubs, System Integrators, and in datacenters.Capture, document, and communicate Microsoft feedback to Supplier engineering teams to drive continuous improvement in product design, functionality, and usability.Understand and influence supplier system BOM, component selection and qualification criteria, and ensure the appropriate quality and reliability validation meets or exceed Microsoft's standardsLead 8D/RCCA for quality events of components, PCB/A, PSU, interconnect, and electro-mechanical subsystems, and systems with internal stakeholders, and suppliers.Lead quality audit, evaluation, and support supplier selection process through cross-functional analysis around supplier quality capabilitiesCollaborate with the Sourcing team to develop and enable new supplier introduction throughout the product life cycle to meet technology, quality, delivery, cost and compliance requirements. | |