Senior AI Demand Planner

Microsoft•Redmond, WA

9h•$116,900 - $203,600

About The Position

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. #CSCP #CSCPJobs

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Supply Chain, Information Technology (IT), Business, Operations, Finance, Accounting, Data Science, or related field AND 6+ 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 OR equivalent experience.
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role.
Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Nice To Haves

Ability to think, understand, and process information quickly
Cloud industry experience, infrastructure, data science, and/or channel management experience
Experience in program management, process management, process improvement
End-to-end supply chain experience (EX: plan, source, make, deliver) and experience working across those various capabilities.
Mindset of continuous improvement and proven capability to synthesize information and draw conclusions
Lean background (belt certifications such as yellow, green or black)
Experience building PowerBIs and/or AI Agents and adopting them into key tasks and processes

Responsibilities

Create the AI-related demand plan in the system and keep it up to date
Coordinate supply supportability inputs to understand if there are any constraints which would impact commits
Perform pre-checks to ensure each demand request has all required prerequisites to enable its seamless execution
Work cross functionally to gather the prerequisites to de-risk your demand plan de-risked
Identifies highly complex opportunities and gaps in execution and works with product teams to solution
Own the execution of changes to your demand plan as business priorities change
Define data driven metrics to sense risk to your demand plan and use data to make decisions
Support S&OE transformation efforts across the Cloud Supply Chain
Demonstrates and builds experiences across multiple groups or divisions including working with Software and Hardware Engineering to design architecture and integrated solutions to highly complex challenges
Create and manage key KPI and OKRs
Program manage large, cross org meetings including readiness for the meeting, execution of it, and follow ups as needed