Supply Planning Ic4

**Supply Planning IC4**:
Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Date posted

**Aug 14, 2025**
- Job number

**1857835**
- Work site

**Up to 50% work from home**
- Travel

**0-25**%**
- Role type

**Individual Contributor**
- Profession

**Supply Chain**
- Discipline

**Supply Planning**
- Employment type

**Full-Time**

**Overview**:

- 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.

Within CSCP, the Spares Supply Chain organization is reinventing and transforming the cloud service parts supply chain. Our goal is to ensure the right spare parts are in the right place at the right time to support global capacity requirements and make sure our customers have the cloud capacity they need when they need it.

**Qualifications**:
Required/minimum qualifications
Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain Management, Operations Management, Supply Chain Analytics, or related field AND 3+ years supply planning, operations, supply chain, indirect supply planning, technology-related supply chain, sourcing and manufacturing, or related experience OR Master's Degree in Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain Management, Business, Operations Management, Supply Chain Analytics, or related field AND 1+ year(s) supply planning, operations, supply chain, indirect supply planning, technology-related supply chain, sourcing and manufacturing, or related experience OR equivalent experience.

Additional or preferred qualifications
Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain Management, Operations Management, Supply Chain Analytics, or related field AND 5+ years supply planning, operations, supply chain, indirect supply planning, technology-related supply chain, sourcing and manufacturing, or related experience OR Master's Degree in Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Business, Supply Chain Management, Operations Management, Supply Chain Analytics, or related field AND 4+ years supply planning, operations, supply chain, indirect supply planning, technology-related supply chain, sourcing and manufacturing, or related experience OR equivalent experience.
- Detailed knowledge of supply chain planning and/or management, inventory management, order management, procurement processes, hardware & network service models. -Well-versed in program management methodologies, approaches, and tools -Proficient in process engineering including scoping project, analysis, and definition. Skilled in creating global metrics and decision-support tools. Thrive in fast-paced environments, managing shifting priorities with mínimal oversight. -Proven track record of strong critical thinking, problem-solving, -solution design, implementing and driving closure on continuous improvements efforts eager to learn, curious, and customer focused Excellent analytical, verbal, written, interpersonal communication skills with strong attention to detail -Strong knowledge of key IT and service industry concepts Lean/Six-Sigma training, Kaizen, Agile, CPIM/CSCP certification useful Proficient with Microsoft 365.

**Responsibilities**:

- Drive global fulfilment of spare parts and manage blockers to streamline the order fulfilment across spares supply chain process. -Build strong working relationships across multiple disciplines (Sourcing, Finance, Data Center Operations, Distribution Centers and others) -Manage supplier performance to ensure continuity of supply. -Cultivating strategic relationships and influence across the organization. -Define new data-driven models to support the evolving business need and optimize service level. -Implement measurement frameworks to enable data-driven decision making. -Work independently and be agile in a dynamic and growing environment. -Partner with Sourcing on various SRM activities to monitor and drive supplier performance metrics. -Support business case, financial impact and recommend go-forward plans through the analysis of large data sets -Drive continuous improvement of deployment processes, including assessment & improvement of program delivery capabilities, analysis