Data & Applied Scientist

Microsoft’s Cloud business is experiencing explosive growth, and the Capacity, Supply Chain & Provisioning (CSCP) organization is responsible for enabling the infrastructure underlying this growth. Our mission is to deliver the world’s computer with an industry-leading supply chain. CSCP is responsible for strategic sourcing, customer demand forecasting, capacity planning and management, supply chain planning and execution, capacity provisioning, and decommissioning and dispositioning of datacenter assets worldwide.

Microsoft’s Cloud business is experiencing explosive growth, and the Capacity, Supply Chain & Provisioning (CSCP) organization is responsible for enabling the infrastructure underlying this growth. Our mission is to deliver the world’s computer with an industry-leading supply chain. CSCP is responsible for strategic sourcing, customer demand forecasting, capacity planning and management, supply chain planning and execution, capacity provisioning, and decommissioning and dispositioning of datacenter assets worldwide.

Are you passionate about solving large scale supply chain problems in an ever-changing and rapidly growing cloud computing environment? Do you want to work in a planning team driving processes and modelling capacity planning innovations for server and network infrastructure? If yes, please continue reading on.

Microsoft Capacity, Supply Chain, and Provisioning (CSCP) is an exciting and fast-evolving organization within Microsoft. CSCP’s mission is to optimize and deliver industry-leading cloud infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft’s online services used by our customers around the world. The organization is responsible for the strategy and delivery of the foundational platform for all Microsoft Online Services including demand and capacity forecasting along with supply chain management which includes planning, sourcing, logistics and fulfilment. CSCP supports over 200 online businesses including Azure, Search, O365, OneDrive and Xbox.

Cloud Capacity Planning is one of the most central functions within CSCP due to its direct impact on Microsoft cloud business success. This team forecasts, plans and manages the majority of Microsoft’s cloud services and directly influences cloud user experience. This is a central function that closely partners with Engineering, Finance, Supply Chain, Data Centers, NPI and Deployment Engineering.

India Center-of-Excellence (CoE) is a comparatively new team which offers capabilities to make planning processes efficient and best-in-industry by bringing expertise in areas like Supply Chain Management, Data Science, Engineering and Analytics. The team is growing very fast to get ahead of Cloud Supply Chain demand increase and set up practices for structured long, medium and short-range planning.

**Responsibilities**:
Analysis and Insight Generation

Provides coaching to team members on business context, interpretation, and the implications of findings. Interprets findings and their implications for multiple businesses and champions methodological rigour by calling attention to the limitations of knowledge wherever biases in data, methods, and analysis exist

Generates and leverages insights that inform future studies and reframe the research agenda

Informs both current business decisions by implementing and adapting supply-chain strategies through complex business intelligence

Work with extended team members to understand the KPI requirement, target performance measure and design the metric / KPI

Partner with Supply Chain experts to understand business processes and related systems, which can create data sources for effective performance measurements

Develop and Maintain Data Visualizations for Supply Chain effectiveness measurement

Help other team members with relevant data for ad-hoc analysis of a problem.

Understand various demand sources of Supply Chain data and guide other team members to refer to the appropriate data source on a need basis

Data Quality and Consistency

Define and Maintain the processes and procedures for Data Consistency for the SC enterprise. Drive issue resolution across different organization constituencies

Lead internal process improvements, create process documentation and bring different and new perspectives to solving problems.

Partner with Product Data Management Engineering, Sourcing, Supply Chain Ops; Planning groups to ensure accurately; timely maintenance of Product; SC data

Monitor internal requests and establish standard processes to improve efficiencies and provide internal customer support

Work independently to balance multiple tasks and competing priorities simultaneously.

Effectively run cross-organizational meetings to lead teams to consensus and/or decisions to meet deliverables.

Drive compliance to established standards and metrics

Communicate and enforce data policies, rules, and standards

Perform data analysis, leveraging large data sets to develop insights