Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Microsoft’s Cloud Operations + Innovation organization powers the infrastructure behind its AI and cloud platforms. The DCI Procurement Operations & Data Excellence Leader will build and scale operational systems across global procurement, improving processes, performance management, data quality, analytics, digitization, and transformation. The role will establish operating standards, provide decision support, and drive accountability for supplier execution, risk, and capacity delivery.
Responsibilities
- EPC Analytics Partnership: Partner with the EPC Central team to leverage and build upon the existing Procurement analytics foundation, ensuring DCI requirements are integrated while driving consistent data definitions, reporting, KPIs, and scalable analytics capabilities across the broader procurement organization
- Procurement Operations Excellence: Design and continuously improve end-to-end procurement processes, reducing manual work, cycle time, complexity, and execution variability across regions
- Data & Performance Management: Establish common KPIs, scorecards, dashboards, and data-quality standards that provide visibility to procurement, contracting, supplier, and delivery performance
- Digitization & Automation: Own the DCI Procurement digitization roadmap, leveraging AI, automation, workflow tools, and enterprise platforms to simplify and scale execution
- Operating Rhythm: Establish effective performance reviews, Gemba walks, and operating mechanisms that translate data into actions, accountability, and continuous improvement
- Process & Controls: Develop standardized processes, governance, and controls that enable global consistency while supporting regional execution
- Insights & Decision Support: Translate operational data into actionable insights, identifying bottlenecks, emerging risks, trends, and opportunities requiring leadership action
- Transformation & Adoption: Lead cross-functional transformation initiatives and ensure new processes, tools, and ways of working are adopted, measured, and sustained
Skills
- • 5+ years of experience in procurement, supply chain, operations, operational excellence, analytics, or business transformation
- • Demonstrated experience leading process improvement, digitization, analytics, or operational transformation at scale
- • Experience establishing KPIs, dashboards, operating rhythms, and performance-management mechanisms
- • Strong analytical, change-management, cross-functional leadership, and executive communication skills
- This role is located either in one or all hub locations - Atlanta, GA, Redmond, WA, Houston, TX , Dallas, TX, Richmond, VA, Phoenix, AZ. Relocation support will be provided, and successful candidates must relocate or reside within 50 miles of the hub office location
- • Experience with Lean, Six Sigma, Gemba, or continuous-improvement methodologies
- • Experience implementing AI, automation, analytics, or procurement/supply-chain technology solutions
- • Experience in data centers, infrastructure, construction, technology, manufacturing, or another complex operating environment
- • Demonstrated ability to build and scale new operational capabilities across geographically distributed teams
Benefits
- Relocation support will be provided.
- This role is eligible for hybrid or remote work.
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