Demand Planning Manager

Demand Planning Manager | Microsoft Careers

• 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.
• Manage demand for high priority events and identify macro/micro industry trends affecting demand.
• Own and report forecast accuracy, forecast bias and value-add metrics 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.

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Supply Chain, Information Technology (IT), Business, Operations, Finance, Accounting, Data Science, or related field AND 4+ years supply chain, inventory management or sales operations experience, preferably in planning (demand/supply/forecasting), cloud industry experience, infrastructure, data science, and/or channel management experience
• OR equivalent experience.
• 2+ years of experience in data analytics.

• Health insurance
• 401k matching
• Flight privileges
• Generous time away
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Savings and investments
• Discounts on products and services

Microsoft’s Cloud business is expanding, and the Cloud Supply Chain (CSCP) organization is responsible for enabling the hardware infrastructure underlying this growth including AI!