Contract Manager

Microsoft Cloud Operations and Innovation (CO&I) is the team behind the cloud.Within CO&I, the Global Project Controls (GPC) teamis responsible fordelivering core datacenter infrastructure for Microsoft's cloud business. The MS portfolio consists of complex, multi-disciplinary, large scale, multi-year datacenter construction and lease projects. We are looking for a passionate, high-energy individual to help buildthe clouddatacenters that power the world's largest online services.

In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positivelyimpactour culture every day.

"Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Asemployeeswe come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empowerothersand 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."

This role issite basedlocation and will bebased outofCharlotte, North Carolina

Relocation support will be provided, and successful candidates must relocateorresidewithin 50 miles of thesiteoffice location.

• Manages contract and price negotiation activities across multiple categories and cross-functionally, ensuring Microsoft's price and capacity needs are met while reflecting broad stakeholder and supplier engagements;identifiescost-reduction opportunities and drives cost competitiveness with suppliers and internal teams.

• Demonstrates strong BATNA-driven negotiation discipline, entering GC/AE negotiations with clear alternatives to protect Microsoft's commercial position and strengthen outcomes.

• Serves as an influential leader, driving alignment across senior stakeholders and cross-functional teams, leading through complex contractual decisions, tradeoffs, and escalations with clear communication and executive-ready recommendations.

• Understands construction industry contracting norms and Microsoft contracting requirements;participatesin and/or leads negotiations that meet business goals, mitigate risk, and enable predictable execution.

• Developsnegotiation strategies for construction services and subcontractor scopes,organizesandevaluatesbid results, andcommunicatesstrategy, risks, and outcomes to senior management.

• Supports stakeholder procurement requests for complex purchasing categories byleveragingprocesses, workflows, and technology; manages resolution of escalated pricing issues.

• Executes and manages contracts in compliance with established control processes to ensure delivery and execution align with business requirements; manages contract changes, resolves disputes, and partners with project teams to keep projects on schedule and within budget.

• Identifiesrisks and roadblocks to contract execution and drives action internally/externally to resolve or escalate asappropriate; monitors and mitigates change-order impacts to the business case and partners cross-functionally tomaintainaccurateimpact models.

• Provides strong functional leadership and mentorship to the contracts site execution team, ensuring capability growth, consistent application of contract management best practices, and an aligned, highperformance culture across multiple projects.

Compliance

• Applies an end-to-end understanding of the tradeoffs between Microsoft and key suppliers to drive business impact by influencing senior managers cross-functionally, or cross-regionally to apply market intelligence and adopt practices that enable execution with consistency, accuracy, quality, and timeliness of delivery. Manages supplier scorecardprocess, leads strategic business reviews, educates stakeholders on policy compliance, analyzes root causes of issues, and influences change internally and/or externally toaddressesissues.

• Ensures adherence to policy, educates stakeholders and suppliers on policy compliance, and manages the remediation and resolution of sourcing issues.Identifiesopportunities to adapt policy as needed to mitigate risk and better enable suppliers to meet business requirements.

• Ensures consistency, timeliness, quality, and accuracy of deliverables, and ensures Procurement stakeholders are aware of Service Level Agreement (SLA) and/or defined milestones anddeliverablesterms. Communicates delay to Procurementstakeholders, andindependently proposes and executes contingency measures.

Stakeholder Collaboration

• Develops pricing and negotiation strategies for multiple complexespurchasingcategories, ensures that strategies clearly articulate the tradeoffs, roles, and responsibilities across parties, and gains senior executive support for strategies both internally and externally.Identifiesnegotiation setbacks andtakes action to mitigatecontract disagreements.

• Drives early business engagements for complex business areas orpurchasingcategories with cross-functional leadership including planning, strategic sourcing, cost, engineering, quality, construction, project managers, to define and drive action on supply solutions and strategies, business requirements,optimalsourcing on spend/budget and align on priorities.

• Sharesexpertiseto advise cross-functional teams on sourcing decisions.

Partners

• Internal: Engineering, construction, cost management, finance, safety, legal, risk management and other groups as needed.

• External: Contractors, consultants, suppliers, and industry groups.

Other

• Embody ourcultureandvalues