Category Manager Network Cabling
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Job Summary
Category Manager Network Cabling
Role focus: This role focuses on the sourcing contracting and supplier management of structured cabling and physical network infrastructure within Microsofts data center environment. The successful candidate will combine technical expertise in network cabling with experience in supplier project program commercial or contract addition to leading the network cabling category the role supports selected data center infrastructure maintenance operational and service contract categories.
Although network cabling procurement is the core focus the role will also manage other data centre contract categories including selected IT mechanical electrical maintenance upgrade and operational service agreements.
Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
Lead end-to-end sourcing for network cabling including technical specification review supplier identification and qualification tendering commercial evaluation negotiation and contracting for both cabling materials and installation labour.
Partner with engineering design construction and data centre operations teams to translate technical requirements into clear scopes of work bills of materials installation standards acceptance criteria and supplier obligations.
Evaluate cabling contractors and manufacturers on technical capability installation quality safety capacity delivery performance commercial value and compliance with applicable standards.
Manage network cabling contracts through delivery including changes risks milestones service levels claims cost controls and performance improvement.
Build strategic relationships with cabling manufacturers distributors and installation partners using KPIs and scorecards to improve quality availability cost and delivery.
BringAbility to apply technical expertise to sourcing and contracting decisionsto sourcing decisions challenge specifications and supplier proposals constructively and identify practical alternatives without compromising operational reliability.
Manage the financial and commercial aspects of contracts including purchase orders invoices forecasts benchmarking and cost-saving opportunities.
Prepare quarterly spend supplier-performance and contract-management reviews for data centre stakeholders.
Support the tracking and commercial management of data centre maintenance repair upgrade and project activities.
Apply prior project-management or account-management experience to coordinate stakeholders manage suppliers and drive work from scope definition through contract execution and delivery.
Identify and implement efficiency opportunities across technical systems operational workflows and resource deployment to improve performance reduce costs and support scalable data centre operations.
Capture local subject-matter expertise and promote consistent adoption of network cabling and contracting best practices.
Contribute to improvements in Operations and Service Level Agreement processes services and solutions for COI.
Coordinate closely with data centre field operations and cross-functional teams to maintain alignment and support successful delivery.
Capabilities Important to Success
Network cabling expertise:Strong knowledge of structured cabling systemof structured cabling systems components installation methods testing commissioning quality requirements and the supplier landscape.
Technical-to-commercial capability: Ability to convert engineering and delivery requirements into procurement strategies scopes tender documents evaluation criteria and contracts.
Project or account leadership: Demonstrated experience managing complex customer supplier or project outcomes with strong ownership of scope schedule cost risk and stakeholder expectations.
Commercial judgement: Ability to compare labour rates material pricing productivity assumptions supplier capacity and total cost while protecting technical quality and operational outcomes.
Stakeholder influence: Communicate credibly with technical specialists suppliers senior managers and operational leaders including influencing without formal authority.
Flexibility and adaptability: Anticipate change manage ambiguity and adjust plans priorities and sourcing approaches as technical or operational requirements evolve.
Team contribution: Contribute technical insight and constructive challenge then support agreed decisions and shared delivery outcomes.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications and Experience
Experience in network cabling telecommunications physical IT infrastructure or related technical environments.
Experience managing suppliers contracts projects programs or customer engagements.
Experience supporting sourcing procurement contract management vendor management or commercial activities.
Ability to interpret technical specifications and translate them into supplier requirements and scopes of work.
Relevant degree technical diploma trade certification or equivalent practical experience.
Preferred Qualifications
Demonstrated 2years of experience working with critical environment infrastructure such as UPS systems generators air handling units structured cabling servers networking equipment and data center capacity management.
We recognize that candidates may develop relevant skills through a variety of professional technical military apprenticeship or educational experiences. We encourage applicants who meet many but not all qualifications to apply
Bachelors degree technical diploma trade certification or equivalent experience in Computer Science Telecommunications Electrical Engineering Mechanical Engineering Information Technology or a related field.
Relevant industry certifications such as PMP ITIL BICSI CompTIA Network Certified Data Centre Professional (CDCP) Microsoft certifications or equivalent credentials are preferred.
2 years experiencewithcritical environment maintenance and repair costmanagement
2 years experiencewith industryprogram and project managementskills
Experience supporting data center construction commissioning expansion maintenance or operational projects
2years of Experience using collaboration and productivity platforms such as Microsoft Teams and SharePoint.
Experience using reporting and data analysis tools such as Power BI Excel or similar analytical platforms
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 marital status medical condition national origin physical or mental disability political affiliation protected veteran status race religion sex (including pregnancy) sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws regulations and ordinances.
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.
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