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Site Procurement Manager

Microsoft· Sourcing and Category Management
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Hybrid (Multiple locations)$97.6k - $188.4kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Role within Microsoft Cloud Operations + Innovation (CO+I) focused on site procurement for data center construction and related services across multiple U.S. locations. On-site role requiring relocation or residence within 50 miles of hub offices, with responsibilities spanning material management, supplier engagement, contract and price negotiation, compliance, and stakeholder collaboration to support complex datacenter projects.

Responsibilities

  • Creates, maintains, and executes material management for several construction projects performing purchasing responsibilities, ensuring continuity of supply and/or services.
  • Integrates business specifications into request for information (RFI) and/or request for proposal (RFP) processes, manages supplier evaluation frameworks, and partners with suppliers to drive innovation and execution improvement.
  • Supports contract and price negotiation activities and ensures alignment with cross-functional teams.
  • Applies end-to-end understanding of procurement processes to drive business impact and leads decision-making around workstream processes.
  • Ensures adherence to policy and collaborates with senior stakeholders to drive consistency across supply chain requests.
  • Manages procurement execution while ensuring procedural compliance.
  • Monitors the impact of complex change orders and drives supplier and contractor performance management.
  • Develops negotiation strategies and facilitates early business engagements with cross-functional leadership.
  • Manages supplier activity and external stakeholders to improve supplier performance.
  • Ensures adherence to policy, educates stakeholders and suppliers on policy compliance, and contributes to remediation and resolution of sourcing issues with minimal guidance.
  • Ensures consistency, timeliness, quality, and accuracy of deliverables in alignment with SLAs and defined milestones.
  • Communicates delays potential to stakeholders and executes contingency measures as directed.
  • Drives business impact through market intelligence and plans that enable consistent, accurate, quality, and timely delivery.
  • Manages aspects of supplier scorecard process and strategic business reviews, and addresses issues with minimal guidance.
  • Facilitates periodic Microsoft-driven supplier audits against policy/contractual requirements.
  • Ensures governance model maintains up-to-date sourcing and supplier data.
  • Route contracts and Change Orders via workflow process or technology in support of product and service requirements.
  • Executes contracts and complies with established control processes within an assigned purchasing category.
  • Identifies risks and roadblocks to contract execution, monitors impact of change orders, and escalates resolution cross-functionally.
  • Ensures supplier performs the work in accordance with contract requirements.
  • Processes or supports stakeholder procurement requests for purchasing categories via engagement and/or workflow process with minimal guidance.
  • Route original Purchase Orders and subsequent Change Orders via workflow process with minimal guidance.
  • Audits supplier work in accordance with PO requirements.
  • Supports business engagements for low-risk and/or well-defined business areas with cross-functional leadership.
  • Collaborates with suppliers and internal compliance stakeholders and performs on-boarding activities.
  • Serves as a contact point between a supplier and Microsoft for defined accounts within the same purchasing category.
  • Develops pricing and negotiation strategies for a well-defined purchasing category and gains executive support.

Qualifications

  • Master’s Degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, Data Analytics, Business, Finance or related field OR Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, Data Analytics, Business, Finance or related field AND 1+ year(s) experience in data science/analytics, finance, project management, supply chain, and/or operations OR equivalent experience.

Skills

Required:Procurement managementContract negotiationSupplier relationship management
Last updated Oct 9, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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