Sr. Technical Program Manager, Compute Short-Term Planning
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Sep 04, 2025 | |
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OverviewMicrosoft's Cloud business is expanding, and the Cloud Supply Chain (CSCP) organization is responsible for enabling the hardware infrastructure underlying this growth including AI! CSCP's vision is to empower customers to achieve more by delivering Cloud and AI capabilities at scale. Our mission is to deliver the world's computer with an industry-leading supply chain. The CSCP organization is responsible for traditional supply chain functions such as plan, source, make, deliver, but also manages supportability (spares), sustainability, and decommissioning of datacenter assets worldwide. We deliver the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's over 200 online businesses including Bing, MSN, Office 365, Xbox Live, OneDrive and the Microsoft Azure platform for external customers. Our infrastructure is supported by more than 300 datacenters around the world that enable services for more than 1 billion customers in over 90 countries. Microsoft Cloud Planning (MCP) is the central planning function within CSCP focusing on forecasting, capacity planning, hardware demand planning, inventory buffer strategies, and Integrated Business Planning (IBP). MCP is responsible for effectively collaborating with Cloud Services development partners, deeply understanding business goals, translating those needs into useful signals that inform long- mid- and short-term capacity plans, and providing consumable feedback signals that help inform future plans and goals. The function closely partners with Engineering, Finance, Supply Chain, Data Centers, New Product Introduction Teams, and the other Supply Chain organizations to plan capacity and hardware demand. The Commercial Cloud Planning team within MCP is chartered with generating an accurate and affordable hardware forecast and demand plan, which includes all Compute & Storage and all 1P Services and Appliances. We are looking for a passionate, high-energy individual who will lead and own the end-to-end process for forecasting, Capacity and Demand Planning for Comm Cloud Planning.
ResponsibilitiesTechnical PM in this role will own process improvement and system transformation for short-term planning for Compute capacity. Primary expectation from this role is to simplify planning tools and system inputs. The goal is to ensure that optimal server capacity is available to support Azure growth and margin goals. You will partner closely with leaders across the organization and be responsible for high quality & accurate plans for rack deployments. A successful candidate for this role will leverage their technical, analytical, supply-chain, leadership, and communication skills to deliver innovative solutions that will transform the way capacity is deployed for our customers. This includes: Serve as the primary focal point with engineering teams for all capacity topics Trace customer level forecast signal all the way through an optimized deployment plan Risk Detection: Develop end-to-end (usage forecast to capacity live) risk detection methodology and KPIs. Develop processes for risk mitigation actions at different stages of planning and deployment Analyze systems data pipelines to align between S&OP and S&OE planning Drive process automation for risk detection and risk mitigation Operationalize and drive weekly and monthly metrics/business review for Short Term Planning Drive continuous process & tooling improvements for short-term planning | |