Director of Sourcing & Category Management at Microsoft
Director of Sourcing & Category Management Details
Dec. 10, 2018, 5:54 p.m.
Hardware Manufacturing Engineering
★★★★
People Manager
Full-Time
Redmond, WA
The Strategic Sourcing
Do you have what it takes to join a growing, fast-paced organization, take on new challenges and move the business forward? The Strategic Sourcing Group is hiring and we are looking for high quality, passionate, driven individuals to join our team. There has not been a more exciting time to join! Not only do we make market impacting products like Surface, Xbox One, Hololens, PC Hardware, Software and more, but we are also an evolutionary organization with a world-class supply chain that maximizes business value. The Strategic Sourcing Group is a pivotal team within the Devices Group. This Director of Tier 1 Strategic Sourcing role will be directly involved in further developing Microsoft's hardware muscle by leading the team that manages the worldwide commercial relationships with our strategic hardware manufacturing and service partners. This role will have in-depth knowledge of contract manufacturing and ODM services, overall supply chain operations, and have end-to-end product development
Primary responsibilities for this team and role include: Sourcing Strategy: o Internally, you will have responsibility for developing and sustaining the Tier 1 vendor short and long-term sourcing strategy in order to achieve world class services with best-in-class pricing and terms. You will be responsible for driving and articulating the strategy discussions with Microsoft's senior executives and business partners. o Externally, you'll be responsible to sell a scenario that entices the world's most successful manufacturing and service providers to deliver world-class results by establishing long-term,
Functional Expectations/Experiences A minimum of 15 years' experience in strategic sourcing in the OEM consumer electronics industry AND/OR as a Commercial Account Manager in the contract manufacturer side of the industry. Expertise in market analysis and sourcing planning to dissect market size, players, customers, growth, technology replacements/forecasts, pricing trends, etc. to formulate sourcing strategies. Expertise in Financial Statement Analysis to derive should-cost models and cost competitiveness/financial strengths of suppliers before RFx is conducted. Bottom's up process costing utilizing