Production Planning Manager - Singapore - Microsoft

Microsoft

Verified Company

Singapore

1 week ago

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Wei Jie

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Description

microsoft's Cloud Operations & Innovation (CO+I) is the engine that powers our cloud services.

By blending modern analytics capabilities with business strategy, you will help influence the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's online services including Bing, Office 365, Xbox, OneDrive, and the Microsoft Azure platform.

As a group, CO+I is focused on the personal and professional development of all employees and offers training and opportunities including Career Rotation Programs, Diversity & Inclusion trainings and events, and professional certifications.

The CO+I Supply Chain Planning & Analytics team is seeking a seasoned and innovative Program Manager for Labor Planning and Analytics with a passion for data, analytics, process improvements, helping others, technology, and operations.

You would join a team that works to deliver and evolve a holistic Data Center performance management platform for CO+I leadership to help the organization make better business decisions.

With environmental sustainability and optimization at the forefront of our Data Center design and operations, we continue to grow and evolve as we meet the ever-changing business demands that make Microsoft a world-class cloud provider.

Do you want to empower billions across the world? Come and join us in CO+I and be at the forefront of the action Come help us build the best Cloud on the planet

In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

Responsibilities:

Responsibilities:

Business Operations

Managing the supply side of the planning equation, lead and support suppliers and project execution teams to capture and report historic, current, and forwardlooking information to support performancetoplan analytics, risk management, and inventory tracking.
Conduct production meetings with various stakeholders to understand and track changes to plans and execution and enable visibility into impacts to the business.
Support strategic prioritization discussions using firsthand knowledge of a complex portfolio of constrained resources to optimize regional, efficient, and impactful deployment of those resources.
Use a deep understanding of manufacturing best practices to work effectively with suppliers and be able to report on inventory matters including WIP, material procurement, cycles, quality, testing, ontime delivery, setting and measuring KPIs, and overall inventory management concepts.

Business Strategy

Own internal and external collaboration tooling to support the crossfunctional collaboration to gain and maintain the visibility needed to report on and manage the regional portfolio of projects.
Bring insights into process improvements internally and externally to add better transparency across the business.

Business Processes

Contributes to the development of models for evaluating logistics operations/service quality/materials management and develop processes or contingency plans for managing risk with mínimal guidance.
Contributes to the development and evolution of workstream processes.
Leverages supply chain knowledge and models to identify opportunities for improvement with mínimal guidance.

Implement inventory tracker and maintenance process to comply with contractual requirements.

Work with procurement teams and local business teams to create new purchase orders for test equipment.

Strategy and Development

Demonstrates creativity and flexibility by thinking beyond current practices. Supports longterm, strategic alignment with suppliers.

Contribute to the team's objectives and key results.

Vendor Management and contract compliance
Manage aspects of logistics operations.
Partners with thirdparty vendors to support the operations of a distribution or fulfilment center and is responsible for maintaining objectives and key results (OKRs) with mínimal guidance.
Actively engages in supplier management processes, such as selection, qualification, performance evaluation, and risk assessment.
Uses appropriate and increasingly complex data sources and converts data as needed.

Qualifications:

Qualifications:

5+ years experience in business, Supply Chain, process improvement or related organization.
Forecasting Model Development Experience.
Deep technical knowledge, ideally with experience in multiple sectors and industries.
A minimum of a bachelor's degree in business, Supply Chain Management, engineering, or related discipline is required.

Preferred

Qualifications:

BS/BA in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Business, or a related field.
Previous Data Center construction exposure/experience would be advantageous.
Demonstrated ability to work in ambiguous situations and across organizational boundaries.
Willingness to adapt quickly to shifting business priorities.

These requirements include, but are not limited