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As a Regional Datacenter Business Operations Program Manager, you will perform a key role in delivering the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's online services including Bing, Office 365, Xbox, OneDrive, and the Microsoft Azure platform. As a group, CO+I is focused on the personal and professional development of all employees and offers training and growth opportunities including Career Rotation Programs, Diversity & Inclusion training and events, and professional certifications.\nOur infrastructure is comprised of a large global portfolio of more than 200 Data Centers in 32 countries and millions of servers. Our foundation is built upon and managed by a team of subject matter experts working to support services for more than 1 billion customers and 20 million businesses in over 90 countries worldwide.\nWith environmental sustainability and optimization at the forefront of our data center design and operations, we continue to grow and evolve as we meet the ever-changing business demands that hold Microsoft as a world-class cloud provider.\nMicrosoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.\nResponsibilities\nAs a Regional Business Program Manager your performance objectives include:\nProvide thought leadership and subject matter expertise related to the delivery of datacenter-centric services\nOperate with a consultant mindset: quickly assess complex or ambiguous business challenges, create structure, and own initiatives from concept through implementation with clear objectives, milestones, governance and measures of success\nAssist in preparation of quarterly spend management review materials at datacenter site and regional level\nAnalyze controllable cost per kW and other operational cost drivers to identify trends, variances, underlying drivers and opportunities for structural improvement\nStand up and mature the regional operational efficiency program, including intake, prioritization, governance, tracking, reporting and benefits realization, with clear baselines and defensible benefit methodologies\nOwn and evolve the strategic vendor management program, including operating rhythms, governance, performance expectations and accountability, and manage supplier contracts end to end (procurement engagement, cost/terms negotiations, change orders, scorecards, recurring business reviews)\nEstablish and own a Regional Supplier Assurance program that provides consistent visibility into supplier health, performance, risk and compliance, with KPIs, scorecards, escalation mechanisms and corrective-action follow-through\nSupport organizational financial management, budgeting, and forecasting\nEvaluate cost savings opportunities and implement strategic projects to realize savings, with forward-looking indicators that show what is driving cost and where intervention is required\nPartner with regional and global teams to identify, evaluate and scale efficiency initiatives and best practices, maintaining an integrated portfolio of initiatives and measuring impact across spend, time, people and productivity\nIdentify inefficient, fragmented or manual processes and lead efforts to simplify, standardize and automate them, with mechanisms to sustain improvements beyond initial implementation\nServe as a cross-functional enabler across Operations, Finance, Procurement, Sourcing, Engineering and Global Business Operations, influencing without direct authority and driving teams to clear decisions and accountable execution\nAbility to work independently in a remote workplace setting\nCapabilities important to success include:\nOperational Planning & Project Management: Show structured thinking, planning, and the ability to execute by working through others, influencing without authority, and dealing with ambiguity.\nExceptional written and Interpersonal skills: Communicate effectively and concisely with stakeholders, senior managers and leaders, turning complex analysis into a clear so-what, recommendation and action.\nCustomer/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.\nPerformance Goal and Standards Setting: Develop and communicate to realistic timelines via plans that consider potential obstacles and immediate + long-term consequences.\nUnderstand datacenter business objectives: Interpret spend, forecasts, cost drivers, supplier economics and business cases; connect individual projects and data points to larger business objectives and proactively address trade-offs.\nProcess and Technology: Demonstrate a solid understanding of IT and CE environments including operational processes and industry best practices.\nFlexibility 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.\nTeam Player: Ability to both contribute strategically to the team and support strategic decisions.\nAnalytical Rigor and Bias for Action: Work with large datasets to identify patterns and variances, convert analysis into recommendations, and start with imperfect information, test, learn and adjust while driving adoption across teams.\nProgram Building and Benefits Realization: Take an undefined need and build the governance, processes, tooling and operating rhythm around it, distinguishing activity from measurable impact with defensible baselines and KPIs.\nQualifications\nRequired Qualifications:\nHigh School Qualification or equivalent AND 3+ years' experience supporting IT equipment or related technology or delivering server and network deployment projects in large-scale environments OR equivalent experience \nOther Requirements:\nAbility to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:\nMicrosoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.\nPreferred Qualifications:\nBachelor's or Technical College Degree in Computer Science, Math, Telecommunications, Electrical/Mechanical Engineering, Supply Chain Management or related field AND 8+ 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) OR High School Qualification or equivalent AND 10+ 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) OR equivalent experience\n\nApplicable certifications: APICS/Inventory Control, CompTIA, Microsoft, Network Certifications, CCNA Certifications, ITIL v3 Foundation, Microsoft Operations Framework (MOF) Certifications\n\n5+ years' experience in the development of tools and apps utilizing Power Apps, Power BI, Power Automate, Azure DevOps, Sharepoint, Dynamics\n5+ years' experience providing business support in a 24x7x365 production environment\n6+ years of relevant finance, planning or analysis work experiences with analytical foundation\nKnowledge or background supporting AI\nDemonstrated PowerPoint, Excel, Power BI and Power Platform skills (Power Apps, Power Automate and Azure DevOps a plus)\nExperience in datacenter, critical environment, supply chain or large-scale infrastructure operations\nDemonstrated ability to manage multiple work streams and prioritize as needed\nExperience owning a strategic vendor management, supplier performance or supplier assurance program, including scorecards, governance rhythms and business reviews\nDemonstrated partnering capabilities, including the ability to influence others without direct authority and appropriately push back when required\nExperience standing up an operational efficiency or continuous improvement program with defined intake, prioritization and benefits tracking\nPrior experience in driver-based cost analysis, including controllable cost per kW or similar unit-cost metrics\nData Center Operations Management IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across Canada is CAD $89,300 - CAD $163,200 per year.\nFind additional pay information here:\nhttps://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/canada-pay-information.html\nData Center Operations Management IC4 - L'échelle salariale de base typique pour ce rôle dans l'ensemble du Canada est de 89,300 $ CAD à 163,200 $ CAD par année. \nPour plus d'information au sujet de la rémunération, veuillez cliquer ici:\nhttps://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/canada-pay-information.html\nCe poste sera ouvert pendant au moins cinq jours et les candidatures seront acceptées de façon continue jusqu’à ce que le poste soit pourvu.\nThis position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.\nMicrosoft est un employeur offrant l’égalité d’accès à l’emploi. Tous les candidats qualifiés seront pris en considération pour l’emploi, sans égard à l’âge, à l’ascendance, à la citoyenneté, à la couleur, aux congés médicaux ou familiaux, à l’identité ou à l’expression de genre, aux renseignements génétiques, à l’état d’immigration, à l’état matrimonial, à l’état de santé, à l’origine nationale, à un éventuel handicap physique ou mental, à l’affiliation politique, au statut de vétéran protégé ou au statut militaire, à la race, à l’ethnie, à la religion, au sexe (y compris la grossesse), à l’orientation sexuelle ou à toute autre caractéristique protégée par les lois, ordonnances et règlements locaux applicables. Si vous avez besoin d’aide avec des accommodements religieux et/ou d’un accommodement raisonnable en raison d’un handicap pendant le processus de candidature, apprenez-en plus sur la demande d’accommodement.\nMicrosoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. 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