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Sr. Demand Planning Manager
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Aug 07, 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 focused on forecasting, demand planning, and supply planning for all Microsoft Cloud services and associated hardware, directly impacting the success of Microsoft's cloud business.
ResponsibilitiesIn this role, you will be managing rolling 24-month cloud capacity/demand plan for internal and external customers via a combination of statistical modeling and consensus demand planning. The primary focus will be: Lead consensus demand planning process with Engineering Group, Customers, Finance, Field Sales, and Data Science teams to develop a rolling 24-month forecast as part of monthly planning process. Develop technical insights into the product, customer value, COGS and margin drivers to make well balanced data driven decisions for the businessManage demand for high priority events and identify macro/micro industry trends affecting demand.Own and report forecast accuracy, forecast bias for your customers / business segments. Explain drivers of month-over-month change, and corresponding financial impact. Partner with analytics team for automating reports and building management dashboards. Perform ad-hoc analysis for critical business needs.Bring in thought leadership to help management in building vision, and aligning with stakeholders. | |