Senior Program Manager with ref.

Company's Benefits

Flexible Working Arrangements
Equal Pay Initiatives
Mentorship Program
Leadership Development Program
Paid Parental Leave
Return to Work Policy
Childcare Facilities
Breastfeeding Rooms
Sponsorship Program
Coaching Program
Raise Numbers Of Women In Leadership
Internal Women's Networking Group

Job Description

The Infrastructure Planning and Acquisition (IPA) organization is seeking a Senior Program Manager for our Front Door function, covering new region launch and existing region expansion planning. This role is responsible for managing cross functional infrastructure strategy and plans to support our rapidly scaling global data center infrastructure. This role will program manage strategy and planning forMicrosoft’s new cloud region launches and regional expansions. The right candidate will drive clarity and decisions on infrastructure sourcing signals by integrating with Azure, Finance, and Infrastructure acquisition teams, including land, power, network, and data center leasing and acquisition.

This role is part of a critical function that will be accountable for driving critical infrastructure decisions making sure all inputs are adequately captured and analysed. This role will focus on:

Analysis of regional demand and supply inputs and variances to support long term decisions
Coordinating and driving infrastructure decisions on a timely manner
Identifying data needs, collecting required data, and providing the analysis to expedite decision making
Coordinating with finance on financial analysis and decision alignment
Program managing inputs to planning of new cloud regions
Understanding and clarifying key constraints to deploying new regions in a timely manner

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

5+ years’ experience in cross functional program management, especially in a strategy, planning and decision-making environment
5+ years’ experience in data and analysis for decision making
5+ years demonstrated experience leading and managing a business-critical function
BS/BA degree required;
Ability to communicate and present complex analysis at the executive levels for alignment and decision making
Excellent communication and leadership skills to drive projects, and build buy-in and support

Preferred Qualifications:

10+ year program management experience driving mission critical cross functional infrastructure projects with end to end dependencies
Experience in planning cloud specific infrastructure

Responsibilities

Manage the new and existing expansion cloud region strategy and planning processes
Coordinate inputs for planning of new region launches and existing region expansions across infrastructure acquisition and Azure
Manage the infrastructure decision process to drive decisions on time and in alignment with our strategy
Drive close collaboration with planning and execution teams to resolve infrastructure problems
Perform Data analysis as required for driving infrastructure decisions

Senior Program Manager