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The SDM is the central link between Microsoft, vendor partners, and cross-functional stakeholders. The role moves vendor management from reactive, transactional oversight to a proactive partnership focused on results.\nThis is an individual contributor role that leads through influence rather than direct authority. At Level 62, the SDM independently runs governance across vendors, sites and time zones. The role covers financial and risk stewardship, continuous improvement, and the responsible use of AI and automation.\nMicrosoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more, and we’re dedicated to this mission across every aspect of our company. Our culture is centred on embracing a growth mindset and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. Join us and help shape the future of the world.\nResponsibilities\nVendor delivery ownership: Own vendor delivery across VL operations against SLAs, KPIs and contract commitments. Provide daily oversight and act as the primary Microsoft escalation point for complex risks and incidents.\nPerformance governance: Run weekly, monthly, and executive business reviews using scorecards, trend analysis and action logs. Hold vendors accountable through root cause analysis and corrective and preventive action plans, tracked to closure.\nInsights and reporting: Turn data on quality, productivity, CSAT, throughput, rework, cycle time and backlog into insights leaders can act on. Check vendor-reported data against source systems.\nFinancial stewardship: Manage purchase orders and invoices, overtime, accruals, and forecasts. Assess vendor requests for more capacity or investment based on return on investment.\nCapacity and demand: Match vendor capacity, skills, and schedules to forecast demand, especially at peak periods and quarter-end, without losing resilience or cost control.\nRisk, business continuity and compliance: Identify and reduce operational, commercial, security, compliance and customer-impact risks. Maintain workable business continuity and recovery plans, and keep records ready for audit.\nContracts and vendor lifecycle: Work with Procurement, Legal, Finance and Risk on vendor selection, onboarding, statements of work, contract changes, renewals and remedies. Make sure contract obligations are applied in day-to-day operations.\nContinuous improvement and AI: Reduce waste, rework, defects, and cycle time. Work with Vendor Solutions and engineering to pilot and scale responsible AI and automation, with clear benefits and measurable adoption.\nChange and transitions: Lead vendor onboarding, transitions, process migrations, and readiness for releases, keeping disruption to a minimum.\nStakeholder leadership: Coordinate across vendors, sales, finance, procurement, legal, risk, engineering, and service design. Explain trade-offs, options and recommendations clearly to senior leaders.\nEmbody ourcultureandvalues\nQualifications\nRequired Qualifications\nMaster's Degree in Business Management, or related field AND 2+ years process management, process execution, process optimization, or related experience OR Business, or related field AND 4+ years process management, process execution, process optimization, or related experience OR equivalent experience.\nPreferred Qualifications\nOverall 12+ years of experience in service delivery, vendor operations, outsourcing, business program management or operations leadership, or equivalent experience.\nProven experience managing outsourced or vendor-delivered operations, including performance governance, escalation management and delivering corrective actions.\nKnowledge of operations and finance, and a working understanding of engineering, data and analytics.\nExperience in commercial operations or deal processing for Volume Licensing.\nExperience delivering across multiple sites and time zones, including business continuity planning and site recovery.\nGood to know - Lean, Six Sigma, ITIL or PMP certification, and understand AI or automation adoption with measurable results.\nData skills, for example in Power BI or Excel.\nProcess Management IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $97,600 - $188,400 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $125,000 - $206,400 per year.\nCertain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:\nhttps://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay\nThis position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.\nMicrosoft is an equal opportunity employer. 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