Supply Chain Planning Program Manager

Derflan is hiring a Supply Chain Planning Program Manager for our client Microsoft.

Base: $100-$117k

Estimated start date: ASAP

Estimated end date: 6/30/2024

Requirements

1. Experience in Supply chain planning/program management | 7+ years
2. Understanding and application of key inventory management concepts (Supply Commit, Clear to Build, Open to Buy, WOS, turns) | 7+ years
3. Exceptional Excel experience | 7+ years
4. Years of Experience Required – 7 years of experience minimum.
5. Hands on demand planning or forecasting experience, meets all hard skill requirements, PowerBI experience.

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Microsoft is looking for individuals with supply chain expertise to join its dynamic infrastructure cloud capacity planning team.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Identify feasibility of a capacity plan and trigger execution with operations team – including elements like space, power, networking and SKU availability

• Interface with supply chain, Data Center space management, hardware supply management, deployment PM’s, SKU team, networking to manage and reconcile all issues related to projects

• Drive root cause and corrective actions to close out process, training or tools arising from the escalations

• Generate and manage metrics and reporting related to planning accuracy and jitter, supply changes and supply-demand gaps

• Load execution plan into operations system of record (MDM)

• Generate and publish forecasts for downstream teams

CORE COMPETENCIES:

• Deals well with ambiguity

• Self-motivated/self-starter

• Results & detail oriented

• Strong cross-functional collaboration and negotiation skills

• Strong communication/organizational skills

• Analytical acumen

• Stronger Project Management, Facilitation, Coordination skills

• Strong Problem-solving and issue-resolution

• People-person who communicates credibly and follows through with issues

EXPERIENCE/QUALIFICATIONS:

• Experience in supply chain planning or transaction management, preferably with cloud infrastructure or computer hardware

• Understanding and application of key inventory management concepts (Supply Commit, Clear to Build, Open to Buy, WOS, turns)

• Exceptional Excel skills managing large amounts of data

• Build pivot tables

• Pull data from SQL data sources

• PowerBI experience a plus