Principal AI Demand Planner

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

As a Principal AI Demand Planner, you will be responsible for defining and driving the 5-year long-range forecast for AI infrastructure, translating strategic business priorities and capacity signals into actionable, data-driven demand plans that shape investment decisions at scale. You will partner cross-functionally with Finance, Engineering, Cloud Operations, and Supply Chain leadership to align on multi-year AI demand outlooks — spanning GPU, silicon, power, and infrastructure capacity — ensuring the organization is positioned to meet both near-term commitments and long-horizon growth targets.  In the S&OP horizon, you will: 

• Create the AI-related long-range demand plan and keep it up to date 
• Work with sourcing on what commodities require inputs to support LTAs
• Identify highly complex opportunities and gaps in long range planning and work with engineering, datacenter, supply chain teams and finance to develop scenarios 
• Prepare executive presentations and briefings to communicate status, shifts and decisions required
• Support S&OP transformation efforts across the Cloud Supply Chain 
• Define data driven metrics and use data to make decisions

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Supply Chain, Information Technology (IT), Business, Operations, Finance, Accounting, Data Science, or related field AND 8+ 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:

• Ability 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:
  • Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Ability to think, understand, and process information quickly
• Cloud industry experience, data science, and/or channel management experience   
• End-to-end supply chain experience (EX: plan, source, make, deliver) and experience working across those various capabilities
• Mindset of continuous improvement and proven capability to synthesize information and draw conclusions
• Experience building PowerBIs and/or AI Agents and adopting them into key tasks and processes

Demand Planning IC6 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $130,900 - $277,200 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 $165,600 - $303,600 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft 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. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.