Principal Program Manager Lead 777730

Do you want to lead a dynamic team that will challenge your technical, strategic and leadership skills to solve some of the toughest engineering problems Microsoft faces? Are you passionate about building Supply Chain Management (SCM) software that will help Customers optimizing their business processes and reducing their cost?

We are looking for a passionate colleague who will lead our Distribution, Warehouse and Inventory Management team and help designing, building and releasing new and enhanced Inventory functionality in Dynamics AX. We have an ambitious growth plan driving numerous investments in this area and are looking for an experienced Program Manager to lead and drive key feature design and development.

Your background

Through your career, you have gained an in-depth and solid understanding of one or more ERP solutions either by implementing, designing or programming ERP functionality. You understand how Business Processes and, in particular, how SCM and Inventory/Distribution processes works. Optimal you have lead key Warehouse and Inventory Management projects and can detail what challenges companies are facing in managing and controlling complex warehouses and warehouse processes.

You have strong analytical skills and, by nature, a curiosity to ‘root causes’ and ability to analyze a set of data and provide solid analysis of this data. You are able to convert marker requirement to specifications of features that can be implemented. At the same time you are able to take decisions and lead feature development from start to end of the development cycle by bringing clarity into complex tasks and handling many tasks at the same time without stalling.

Excellent Program Management, communication and cross team collaboration skills, is a prerequisite for having success in our development teams.

To be able to smoothen communication between Program Managers, Developers and Testers, you have basic coding skills. You might understand OOP, data modeling and architectural overview and are experienced with the MS stack on a technical and usage level.

Working as a Program Manager Lead in Microsoft Dynamics AX

Being a leading Program Manager is a high-visibility key position in the Dynamics AX R&D team that is focused on managing, designing and verifying product direction as well as driving product lifecycle engineering solutions that delight partners and customers.

Your main responsibilities within the Inventory team are:

• Being a key driver in building Dynamics AX WMS product strategy
• Leading other Program Managers and coordinating with Test and Development Leads
• Partner identification and collaboration for building future WMS features
• Gathering feature requests from other teams, Partners and Customers
• Reviewing detailed functional specifications and verifying these against overall release directions
• Drive feature development throughout release lifecycle together with PM’s, developers, testers and affected teams
• Drive and perform Customer and Partner product presentations
• As part of the AX SCM management team, making sure that investments are coordinated and in line with operational and strategic directions and agreements

Being part of the team

This position will enable you to build on your core product implementation and development to drive and manage medium and long term software development projects, manage key strategic decisions around product direction and roadmap for Dynamics AX Inventory.

You will work in an International environment characterized by flexibility, an informal atmosphere and a fast pace. Your colleagues will be highly professional, motivated and value and support your contribution.

If you are looking for a job within the ERP industry, where you can influence product direction, where you will be responsible for building key critical SCM functionality and eventually present the solutions to Partners and Customers, you should seriously consider sending us your resume.

All applications for vacant positions will be welcomed and will be considered on the relative merits of the applicant against the role profile for the position regardless of color, race, nationality, ethnic origin, sex, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, parental responsibilities, age, religion, or belief. How to apply: Please submit your English version application and CV online.

If you have further questions to this job, please contact Jesper Theil Hansen, Group Program Manager, Microsoft Dynamics AX SCM on +45 2922 9129 or email: jehansen@microsoft.com

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