Datacenter Market Intelligence Analyst
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Jan 28, 2025 | |
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OverviewMicrosoft Cloud Operations and Innovation (CO+I) is the team behind the cloud. Weare responsible for delivering over 200 Microsoft web portals, Live and Online Services around the world including infrastructure, security and compliance, operations, globalization, and manageability. Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and delivering a trusted experience to customers and partners worldwide. We are looking for a passionate, high-energy individual to help build the network that powers the world's largest online services. Within CO+I, the strategic Supply Chain team is responsible for establishing a supply chain that can meet the ever-growing growth of the Cloud and our customers. We support a portfolio of complex, multi-disciplinary, multi-billion, multi-year datacenter construction and lease projects. Furthermore, we support the Operations team that manages and runs the cloud assets. We are looking to fill a critical role of Datacenter Market Intelligence Analyst to lead market intelligence and analysis of GC construction services in support of our build program across the AMER region. In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day. 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. This role is located either in one or all hub locations - Atlanta, GA; Washington, D.C.; Redmond, WA; San Antonio, TX or Phoenix, AZ. Relocation support will be provided, and successful candidates must relocate or reside within 50 miles of the hub office location.
ResponsibilitiesApplies in-depth knowledge of the AMER datacenter general contracting and construction market intelligence to proactively identify and address business concerns. Establishes themselves as an expert in data types and sources relevant to business needs, and shares expertise to guide others. Applies expertise to determine optimal analytical tools and techniques, interpret results within a business context, and address business questions with actionable insights and recommendations.Develops presentations of analyses, including dashboards, reports, data visualizations, self-service platforms, slides, and talking points that synthesize insights to inform senior stakeholders' decision making and drive business outcomes. Drives the implementation of methods that create efficiency in core work related to analytics and reporting that are reusable, readily discoverable, and directed to meaningful interpretation of data that drive business decisions and impact across teams.Reinforces a positive environment by learning and adopting best practices. Maintains or develops ties with external network. Assists with documentation for senior team members as requested. Understands and follows ethics and privacy policies when executing research processes and/or collecting data/information. Establishes themselves as an expert in market and leverages data relevant to business needs. Evaluates sufficiency of data for answering business questions between internal and external sources, and works to identify, anticipate, and address gaps and data quality issues with data providers; drives action to source additional data as needed, and leverages relevant frameworks from other teams. Collaborates with internal stakeholders to build needed data pipelines or integrations to address business needs. Drives the implementation of methods that create efficiency in core work related to analytics and reporting that are reusable, readily discoverable, self-service, and directed to meaningful interpretation of data that drive business decisions and impact across teams. Determines and socializes optimal and innovative methods for standardizing, sharing, and scaling insights. Evaluates the viability of implementing automation for patterns of ad hoc analyses or reporting into standard practices, and shares thought leadership to develop and implement automated methods for use in data collection and analysis that are most relevant to addressing business needs. Develops and guides others' work on presentations of analyses, including dashboards, reports, data visualizations, self-service platforms, slides, and talking points that synthesize insights into a story that influences senior stakeholders' decision making and drives business outcomes. Actively supports efforts to improve efficiency of reporting and presentations, and guides others to ensure presented results are accessible, provide information accurately, clearly, and appropriately in a relevant and timely manner to influence decision making for intended audience(s). Applies in-depth knowledge of the market to proactively identify and address business concerns. Takes measures to determine scope and impact to develop appropriate solutions. Builds and leverages connections within the market and builds library of market intelligence. | |