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Senior Director, Supplier Development, Quality & Technology

Microsoft· Sourcing Engineering
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Hybrid (United States)$165.6k - $296.4kfull-timePosted 4d ago

About the role

Senior leadership role overseeing supplier quality, development, technical capability, and supplier-enabled innovation to support Microsoft’s datacenter roadmap. Partners with Procurement, Engineering, Operations, and CTO organization to improve supplier performance, develop capabilities, reduce risk, and translate technology needs into scalable supplier solutions.

Responsibilities

  • Define and execute global supplier quality strategy, governance, standards, and performance management.
  • Drive measurable improvement in supplier quality, process capability, reliability, yield, defect reduction, and corrective-action effectiveness.
  • Lead resolution of critical supplier quality and technical issues through structured root-cause analysis and sustainable corrective actions.
  • Establish supplier qualification, audit, assessment, and readiness processes appropriate to supplier and technology risk.
  • Identify and mitigate supplier risks that could affect datacenter capacity, schedule, reliability, or business continuity.
  • Develop and execute strategies that strengthen supplier technical, engineering, manufacturing, quality, capacity, and operational capabilities.
  • Assess supplier maturity and establish development roadmaps that close critical capability and performance gaps.
  • Lead supplier improvement, transformation, and recovery initiatives with strategic and critical suppliers.
  • Develop suppliers to support future capacity growth, new technologies, new product introductions, and evolving engineering requirements.
  • Build deeper technical relationships with strategic suppliers and ensure their investment and capability roadmaps align with Microsoft’s future needs.
  • Expand and develop the supplier ecosystem to increase resilience, technical capability, competition, and innovation.
  • Serve as a key connection between Microsoft’s supplier ecosystem and the CTO and Engineering organizations, translating future technology priorities into supplier opportunities.
  • Engage supplier engineering and technology leaders to understand emerging technologies, manufacturing capabilities, materials, designs, and solutions.
  • Create a pipeline of supplier-enabled innovation and advance solutions from evaluation through qualification, industrialization, and scaled deployment.
  • Facilitate supplier technology reviews, innovation workshops, and joint technical development opportunities.
  • Partner with suppliers to improve manufacturability, scalability, reliability, sustainability, cost, and deployment velocity of emerging solutions.
  • Ensure strategic suppliers understand Microsoft’s evolving technology direction to align resources, capacity, and roadmaps.
  • Partner across Engineering, CTO, Procurement, Planning, and Operations to integrate supplier quality, development, and innovation into broader strategies.
  • Establish strong executive and technical relationships with strategic suppliers.
  • Build organizational capability in supplier quality, supplier development, technical problem solving, manufacturing excellence, and technology assessment.
  • Use digital tools, analytics, and supplier performance insights to identify emerging risks and drive proactive decision-making.
  • Communicate supplier performance, technical opportunities, risks, and business implications effectively to senior and executive leadership.

Qualifications

  • Master’s degree in Business, Supply Chain Management, Engineering, Materials Science, or related field AND 8+ years experience in procurement, supply chain, sourcing, engineering, operations, or relevant sales-related roles OR Bachelor's degree in Business, Supply Chain Management, Engineering, Materials Science, or related field AND 10+ years experience in procurement, supply chain, sourcing, engineering, operations, or relevant sales-related roles OR equivalent experience.

Skills

Required:Supplier quality managementRoot-cause analysisSupplier developmentTechnology alignment with CTO/EngineeringExecutive communicationGlobal program leadership
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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