Cloud Supply Chain Sustainability Impact Manager

Microsoft is seeking a Cloud Supply Chain Sustainability Impact Manager to enhance the sustainability impact of its cloud IT infrastructure. The role involves developing sustainability initiatives, conducting assessments, collaborating with engineering teams, and advocating for design changes to meet environmental goals. Candidates should have a relevant degree and experience in program management, environmental indicators, and life cycle assessment methods. The position is based in Redmond, WA.
About the position

The Cloud Supply Chain Sustainability Impact Manager at Microsoft will play a pivotal role in assessing and enhancing the sustainability impact of the company's cloud IT infrastructure. This position is integral to the Cloud Supply Chain & Provisioning (CSCP) business unit, focusing on implementing sustainability strategies that align with Microsoft's environmental goals. The role involves collaboration with data scientists and engineers to tackle complex sustainability challenges, driving initiatives that promote carbon reduction and circularity within the supply chain.

Responsibilities
• Develop and manage initiatives to assess the sustainability impact of Microsoft's cloud IT infrastructure, including conducting Life Cycle Assessments and other product impact evaluations.
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• Build tradeoff & what-if analysis models assessing sustainability impacts of hardware design proposals.
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• Support engineering efforts to build a scalable solution for sustainability impacts assessment across the cloud business.
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• Provide insights around complex environmental challenges and tradeoffs related to carbon accounting, embodied emissions, circularity, and other sustainability related impacts.
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• Advocate and engage hardware engineering teams to drive product design changes that contribute to corporate sustainability strategy and goals.
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• Support in the creation of a framework for measuring sustainability impact of hardware design, material and supplier selection.
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• Collaborate with sourcing and supply chain teams to work on supplier interventions programs reducing carbon emissions & waste.
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• Contribute to cross-company methodology development and collaboration among peers across organizations.

Requirements
• Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 4+ years related experience OR Master's Degree in the same fields AND 3+ years related experience OR Doctorate in the same fields AND 1+ year(s) related experience OR equivalent experience.
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• Demonstrated program management on environmental indicators and impacts, particularly with respect to carbon, water, energy.
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• Experience with material science and flows, from sourcing to manufacturing to end-of-life recycling.
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• Demonstrated experience evaluating environmental impacts of novel materials and technologies using limited and/or imperfect data.
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• Experience with life cycle assessment methods, modeling approaches, data, and applications like GaBi, SimaPro, or equivalent.
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• Understanding of the ICT sector, cloud hardware and the cloud supply chain.

Nice-to-haves
• Experience developing parameterized process-based models for engineering and/or manufacturing processes.
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• Knowledge of electronic component production (semiconductors, printed circuit boards, etc.), raw material production (aluminum, steel, plastics, etc.), mechanical part production (machining, stamping, injection molding, etc.) and/or industrial engineering.
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• Demonstrable program management skills, including ability to direct multiple programs.
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• Strong technical and analytical experience in the context of supply chains and sustainability.
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• Strong understanding of circular economy models, and an established network of sustainability practitioners and institutions.
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• Proven ability to write white papers, and detailed process documentation.

Benefits
• Health insurance
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• Dental insurance
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• Vision insurance
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• 401k
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• 401k matching
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• Paid holidays
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• Paid volunteer time
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• Flexible scheduling
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• Professional development
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• Tuition reimbursement
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• Employee discount programs