Senior Product Manager

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.

Do you get excited about solving difficult supply chain and operations management problems with software solutions in a critical area for Microsoft? Are you passionate about deeply understanding your customers and competition to build your product strategy and roadmap? Do you like to dig deeper into quantitative and qualitative data to identify and prioritize new product capabilities? Are you excited about championing your product roadmap and customer value to a variety of audience? If so, we may have a great opportunity for you.

Responsibilities
Envision and lead the development of the next generation commodity supply chain management workflow and data analytics solutions that drives Microsoft’s Cloud Supply Chain
Engage closely with Customers and Partners to deeply understand their needs and demonstrate customer obsession.
Translate business opportunities and pain points into a roadmap of Product investments, breaking down ambiguous and complex problems into a manageable list of epics and features with clearly articulated specs.
Be curious, connect data, generate insights, and define experiments to validate or invalidate the hypotheses with results that ultimately lead to the right feature and investment decisions.
Drive an inclusive planning process for each product or initiative, balancing partners input and driving alignment to Organizational Objectives & Key Results (OKR’s).
Understand how to ruthlessly prioritize, manage stakeholder expectations when making trade-offs to achieve the high value outcomes for our customers, partners, and sellers.
Closely partner with the software engineering teams, Operations and Data Science teams to land key product capabilities and business goals.
Proactively identify critical risks and dependencies to deliver on upon the product roadmap and KPIs and mitigate those risks, tightly collaborating within and across teams
Continuously engage with customers, partners, and leadership to provide updates on product roadmap and collect actionable feedback.
Identify critical data and telemetry required to optimize the product functionality, and work with engineering teams to grow the required data footprint.
Manage metrics, dashboards, and analytics that track the performance of the product capabilities against the goals and optimize the product functionality to drive the right performance.
Perform rich analysis and develop actionable insights using a variety of data sets.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:

BS in Engineering or Computer Science or other Quantitative fields along with
9+ years combined experience into Program Management, Product Management, Data Science, Operations Research, Software Development, technical/engineering role(s).
5 years of experience leading product management and/or implementing supply chain systems.
3 years of experience presenting and communicating effectively to director level stakeholders.

The ideal candidate will demonstrate.
Product Mindset & Demonstrate customer obsession, vision led, make data driven decisions, deliver right outcomes, and tell the story.
Collaboration; Strong collaboration skills with ability to work effectively across teams.
Planning and Execution; A proven ability to plan, organize, and manage complex technical products.
Communication; Ability to conduct insightful, multi-faceted conversations with technical decision makers inside Microsoft.

Preferred Qualifications:

Strong understanding of supply chain fundamentals
Experience with leading digital transformation infusing AI capabilities.
Demonstrated leadership skills-proven in creating clarity, generating energy, and delivering success.
Proven success in collaborating across engineering, business, data science, and operational teams, up to and including working with director level stakeholders.
Excellent written communication and presentation skills.
Demonstrated proficiency in executive level presentations and communications.
Ability to quickly learn existing concepts and employ new techniques.

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

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