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Senior Operations Program Manager - CoreAI

Microsoft· Business Program Management
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Redmond, WA$97.6k - $188.4kFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Leads end-to-end procurement operations for external staffing and third-party software within CoreAI, developing outsourcing strategies, optimizing vendor spend, and providing leadership with visibility into budgets, supplier performance, dependencies, and risk.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as a member of CoreAI’s Procurement-as-a-Service team, owning strategy, spend management, and end-to-end execution for external staffing and third-party software procurement.
  • Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to define outsourcing strategy for each group. Leverage preferred suppliers. Drive collaboration with vendor champs to identify duplication across teams and consolidate vendors for efficiency and leverage.
  • Drive cost optimization opportunities through strategic sourcing, including master agreements, pricing initiatives, competitive bidding, schedule commitments, risk allocation, claims resolution, and performance management. PO submission, manage invoices, renewals, and financial tracking.
  • Apply value engineering, market intelligence, competitive bidding, and supplier relationship management to reduce costs while maintaining quality and reliability standards.
  • Maintain a consolidated view of vendors, contracts, spend, and dependencies. Track budgets, forecasts, and risks across vendor engagements to support fiscal-year planning, budgeting, and trade-off decisions related to vendor spend.
  • Inventory all roles, groups, and resources then drive a burn down plan to eliminate duplication, consolidate access paths.
  • Act as a single point of contact so teams don’t navigate finance, legal, and procurement separately. Standardized workflows and streamline intake, approvals, and onboarding
  • Establish procurement governance, forecasting, reporting, and operational metrics to provide leadership visibility into spend, schedule, supply chain health, and program risks.
  • Supplier performance governance through procurement manager engagement at Corp level, escalation management, recovery planning, and continuous improvement initiatives to ensure delivery, quality, and cost objectives are achieved.
  • Build and maintain strategic partnerships with key suppliers to improve supply assurance, increase flexibility, accelerate deployment schedules, and strengthen long-term capacity planning.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Business, Operations, Finance, or related field AND 4+ years experience in program management, process management, or process improvement OR equivalent experience

Skills

Required:Procurement strategyVendor managementCost optimizationBudgeting and forecasting
Nice to have:Governance and reporting

Benefits

  • See company benefits information linked in the job description (not itemized here)
Last updated Sep 17, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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