Senior Demand Planning Manager - CTJ - Top Secret

Senior Demand Planning Manager - CTJ - Top Secret

United States, Washington, Redmond

Job description

Company and benefits

Job number

200049599

Date posted

Sep 08, 2026

Work site

3 days / week in-office

Travel

Less than 25%

Profession

Supply Chain

Discipline

Demand Planning

Role type

Individual Contributor

Employment type

Full-Time

Overview

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. CSCP’s vision is to empower customers to achieve more by delivering Cloud and AI capabilities at scale. Our mission is to deliver the world's computer with an industry-leading supply chain. The CSCP organization is responsible for traditional supply chain functions such as plan, source, make, deliver, but also manages supportability (spares), sustainability, and decommissioning of datacenter assets worldwide. We deliver the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's over 200 online businesses including Bing, MSN, Office 365, Xbox Live, OneDrive and the Microsoft Azure platform for external customers. Our infrastructure is supported by more than 300 datacenters around the world that enable services for more than 1 billion customers in over 90 countries.

Microsoft Cloud Planning (MCP) is the central planning function within CSCP focused on forecasting, demand planning, and supply planning for all Microsoft Cloud services and associated hardware, directly impacting the success of Microsoft's cloud business.

Microsoft’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.

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Responsibilities

• Serve as the main contact for all capacity planning responsibilities with cloud partners.
• Align assumptions with engineering groups, customers, finance teams to develop weekly/monthly plans as part of standard planning processes.
• Develop technical insights into the product, customer value, COGS and margin drivers to make well-balanced data-driven decisions for the business.
• Manage demand for high-priority events and identify macro/micro industry trends affecting demand.
• 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.
• Provide thought leadership to assist management in building vision and aligning with stakeholders

Qualifications

• Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Supply Chain, Information Technology (IT), Business, Operations, Finance, Accounting, Data Science, or related field AND 6+ 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.

• Other Requirements

• Security Clearance

Requirements

• Candidates must be able 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