Contract Lead

Step into a role where your ideas spark innovation and your impact is felt every day.As a Contract Lead supporting Engineering, Procurement & Construction within Microsoft's Cloud Operations and Innovation team, youhave the opportunity todrive large-scale transformation in mission-critical environments.You'llplay an essential part in ensuring the operational excellence and rapid growth of Microsoft's datacenter construction portfolio, supporting supplier and trade partner engagement, and executing strategies that underpin the core of Microsoft's success in artificial intelligence and cloud capacity.

In this role, you will champion contract management, procurement, and commercial management for construction programs that power Microsoft's data centers around the globe. Your work will directly contribute to major build programs, ensuring seamless execution and robust contract strategy while helping develop innovative sourcing solutions.You'lljoin a collaborative environment committed to advancing Microsoft's ability to deliver secure, reliable, and scalable infrastructure that empowers global innovation.

At Microsoft, our missiontoempower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve moreguideshow we partner with customers to deliver trusted, impactful solutions. With agrowthmindsetculture, we innovate responsibly and measure success by shared progress, people, teams, and customers. Join us to do meaningful work that changes the world and helps shapewhat'snext for everyone.

• Leads cross-functional contract and price negotiation activities across strategic purchasing categories to ensure contracts reflect Microsoft's cross-functional engagements withsuppliers, andestablishes relevant enterprise-level best practices and standards.Identifiessystematic, long-term, and scalable cost reduction opportunities to drive supplier cost competitiveness across Microsoft and champions efforts to realize those opportunities across organizations.

• Provides guidance and clarification on contract execution processes for consistency, accuracy, and timeliness across Microsoft. Provides thought leadership and shares best practices on established methodologies to ensure they are aligned with and influence current andanticipatedbusiness outcomes, both internally and externally. Drives accountability for resolving escalated contract delivery issues andmonitoringthe impact of change orders oncontracting, anddelivers briefings to executive leadership detailing current and projected sourcing contract execution models,anticipatedrisks, impact models, and contingency plans. Leads enterprise-level claims resolution strategies in collaboration with Legaland executive stakeholders, ensuring systemic issues areaddressedand lessons learned are integrated into future contracting practices.Guidessupplier and contractor performance management, including safety deliverables, by overseeing internal and external stakeholders andprovidingtimelyguidance.

• Leads the integration of business requirements and sourcing strategies into supplier selection processes for the most complex, undefined, and strategic purchasing categories. Leverages a company-wide, global end-to-end perspective on sourcing operations to define a vision, strategies, and priorities for process management to drive consistency, impact, and improvements in supplier management efforts and outcomes (e.g., risk, cost, time, technology adoption) using data-driven approaches. Validates proposed changes and holds teams accountable for developing and implementing improvement plans, sharing delivery best practices, andidentifyinginsights and root causes of issues across procurement and sourcing processes.

• Drives business impact byestablishingfunctional standards and performance expectations that define relevant process and compliance success metrics, while alsoidentifyingopportunities for improving process efficiency and policy compliance. Applies end-to-endexpertiseand leverages market intelligence to develop and influence Microsoft-wide channel strategies thatoptimize forvalue and enable execution with consistency, accuracy, quality, and timeliness. Leads decision making across organizations todetermineoptimumstrategies for suppliers and partners to increase efficiency and managecosts, anddrives accountability and governance for adopting workstream improvements and automation at scale to meet and surpass business expectations.Overseesperiodic Microsoft-driven supplier audits to ensure compliance with policy/contractual requirements.

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Master's Degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, Data Analytics, Business, Finance or related field AND 5+years experiencein data science/analytics, finance, project management, supply chain, and/or operation
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• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, Data Analytics, Business, Finance or related field AND 7+years experiencein data science/analytics, finance, project management, supply chain, and/or operation
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• equivalent experience.

• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's Degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, Data Analytics, Business, Finance or related field AND 12+years experiencein data science/analytics, finance, project management, supply chain, and/or operation
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• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, Data Analytics, Business, Finance or related field AND 15+years experiencein data science/analytics, finance, project management, supply chain, and/or operation
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• equivalent experience.

• 5+yearspeople management experience.

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