Contract and Supplier Manager at Microsoft

Sepang, Selangor, Malaysia -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

24 Feb, 26

Salary

0.0

Posted On

26 Nov, 25

Experience

5 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Operational Planning, Project Management, Financial Analysis, Supplier Performance Metrics, Stakeholder Collaboration, Cost Benchmarking, Continuous Improvement, Data Analysis, Technical Systems Efficiency, Agility, Communication Skills, Customer Focus, Flexibility, Team Player, Critical Environment Infrastructure, Data Center Operations

Industry

Software Development

Description

-Review and manage maintenance, upgrade and project contracts to ensure compliance, alignment with operational goals, and identification of risk or improvement areas. -Conduct cost benchmarking and financial analysis across service agreements to optimize spend and support strategic sourcing decisions. -Develop and implement supplier performance metrics and scorecards to monitor quality, delivery, cost, and compliance, ensuring continuous improvement and alignment with organizational objectives. -Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to identify operational efficiencies, streamline processes, and drive continuous improvement initiatives -Collaborate with supply chain and procurement teams to align supplier performance objectives with sourcing strategies, contract management, and overall operational efficiency -Oversee supplier relationship and performance management, fostering strategic partnerships and ensuring service levels through KPIs and scorecards -Provide thought leadership and subject matter expertise related to financial controllership (accuracy, forecasting & compliance) of datacenter financials. -Manage the financial and commercial aspects of site contracts including related PO and invoice reviews. -Evaluate cost savings opportunities and implement strategic projects to realize savings -Identify and implement efficiency opportunities across technical systems, operational workflows, and resource deployment to enhance performance, reduce costs, and support scalable data center operations. -Leverage local subject matter expert's tribal knowledge, spread adoption of best practices -Act on opportunities to increase agility, and contribute to workstreams to evolve processes, services, and solutions for Operations and Service Level Agreements for CO+I -Coordinate closely with datacenter field operations to foster alignment and partnerships for business success Capabilities important to success include: -Operational Planning & Project Management: Show structured thinking, planning, and the ability to execute by working through others, influencing without authority, and dealing with ambiguity -Exceptional written and Interpersonal skills: Communicate effectively and concisely with stakeholders, senior managers, and leaders about our programs and objectives -Customer/Stakeholder Focus: Gather stakeholder impressions of services and programs, integrating this feedback into decision making. Allocate and align resources to optimize the stakeholder and partner experience. -Performance Goal and Standards Setting: Develop and communicate to realistic timelines via plans that consider potential obstacles and immediate + long-term consequences -Understand datacenter business objectives: Critically review multiple plans and adjust as needed. Proactively communicate and address necessary trade-offs -Flexibility and Adaptability: Regularly scan the environment to help anticipate changes that could affect key programs and projects. Effectively changes plans, goals, actions or priorities to respond to changing situations. -Team Player: Ability to both contribute strategically to this relatively new team and support strategic decisions once debate is over -Qualification in Engineering, Procurement, Supply Chain,Project Management, or a related field; OR trade certification combined with practical industry experience -OR 5+ years industry experience and college course work. -2+ years experience in Critical Environment infrastructures (e.g., UPS, Generator, AHU) or working in physical IT infrastructures (e.g., Servers, SANs, Networking, Capacity, DC Rack/Enclosures, structured cabling). -Technical College degree in Computer Science, Math, Telecommunications, Electrical/Mechanical Engineering or related field. -2+ years experience with industry program and project management skills -Exposure to Data Centre commissioning and construction 2+ years experience working with collaboration platforms (e.g. SharePoint, MS Teams etc.) -2+ years experience with reporting and data analysis systems & platforms (e.g. PowerBI) These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled. *

Responsibilities

The Contract and Supplier Manager will review and manage contracts to ensure compliance and alignment with operational goals while conducting financial analysis to optimize spending. They will also develop supplier performance metrics and collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive continuous improvement initiatives.