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Overview

As the pace of business accelerates and regulatory expectations continue to intensify, Procurement has a unique opportunity to shift compliance and risk from a perceived control function into a strategic enabler of speed and confidence. By transforming fragmented risk, compliance, and supplier data into timely, decisionready insights embedded directly into buying, sourcing, and supplier workflows, we can help leaders make faster, betterinformed decisions while reducing rework, escalations, and downstream audit risk.

Achieving this requires continued investment in a unified supplier risk model, integration of risk signals into core procurement systems, and automation of monitoring and reporting so insights are delivered at the point of decision rather than after the fact. It also requires clear governance, ERM alignment, and crossfunctional partnership to ensure risk thresholds are understood, consistently applied, and trusted—enabling the business to move faster because risk is better understood and managed, not avoided.

Role Overview

We are seeking a seasoned Risk & Compliance Insights Manager to strengthen Microsoft’s ability to move faster with confidence by delivering connected, datadriven risk, compliance, and ESG insights at scale. This role will focus on building a strong data and insight foundation—integrating supplier, compliance, security, privacy, and ESG signals—to enable proactive, predictive, and holistic decisionmaking across procurement and the broader business.

As the risk environment becomes increasingly interconnected—shaped by evolving regulatory expectations, supplier practices, geopolitical dynamics, and heightened focus on data protection, sustainability, and ethical sourcing—this role will help shift the organization from reacting to discrete issues toward a forwardlooking, insightled approach to managing and optimizing the supply base. By enabling clearer visibility into converging risks and tradeoffs, this role supports smarter decisions earlier in the lifecycle and greater resilience at scale.

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

Build the Risk & Compliance Insight Foundation

• Shape and evolve a connected view of supplier risk, compliance, ESG, security, and privacy by bringing together key data and signals.
• Partner with data and analytics teams to ensure insights are trusted, explainable, and scalable.
• Leverage AI and analytics to surface patterns, trends, and emerging risks across the supply base.

Enable Better, Faster Decisions

• Translate complex risk and compliance data into clear, actionable insights that support sourcing, buying, and supplier decisions.
• Ensure insights support earlier decisionmaking and intervention, not just retrospective reporting.
• Help leaders understand tradeoffs across cost, risk, resilience, and reputation.

Support a RiskOptimized Supply Base

• Use integrated insights to inform supplier strategy, engagement, and remediation approaches.
• Identify systemic risks and concentration hot spots across suppliers, categories, and regions.
• Support datadriven conversations about acceptable risk and supplier expectations.

Influence Across the Organization

• Act as a thought partner and advisor to teams across Procurement, Risk, Legal, Security, Privacy, and Sustainability.
• Influence priorities and outcomes through insight and credibility, rather than direct ownership.
• Promote shared understanding of how different risk areas intersect in supplier decisions.

Assess Health and Drive Improvement

• Evaluate the health and effectiveness of risk and compliance efforts using data and qualitative insight.
• Identify gaps in measures, insights, or execution that limit business value.
• Contribute to executiveready narratives that connect risk insights to real business impact.

Additional responsibilities may be prioritized based on the needs of the business.

Qualifications

Required/minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Operations, Finance, or related field AND 4+ years experience in program management, process management, or process improvement OR equivalent experience.

Additional Or Preferred Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in business operations, strategy, analytics, risk, compliance, procurement, or related fields
• ability to influence outcomes in large, matrixed organizations without direct authority
• experience translating complex data or risk topics into clear, businessready insights for senior stakeholders
• data fluency, including experience working with metrics, dashboards, and aggregated signals to assess program or business health
• Experience operating in risksensitive, regulated, or auditaware environments, with sound judgment and discretion
• Experience with supplier risk, third‑party risk, or responsible sourcing in procurement‑adjacent environments
• Familiarity with compliance, ESG, security, and privacy considerations and how they influence supplier or business decisions
• Experience using advanced analytics or AI‑enabled insights to identify trends, risks, or opportunities (hands‑on development not required)
• Comfort operating in ambiguous, evolving problem spaces and shaping clarity where structure is still forming
• Experience preparing executive‑ready narratives or materials that connect insights to real business impact
• Ability to take a systems‑level view of risk, understanding how multiple risk areas intersect
• Demonstrated success shaping insights and frameworks without owning end‑to‑end program delivery
• Experience using SQL to query, transform, and validate analytical datasets
• Familiarity with the Azure data stack, including Azure Data Factory, Synapse, and Fabric
• Experience building Power BI dashboards, data models, and what‑if scenario analyses
• Strong privacy, security, and data governance literacy
• Some experience building or integrating data‑driven agents

Why This Role Matters

This role is central to ensuring Microsoft can navigate an increasingly complex and interconnected supplier risk environment proactively and responsibly. By building a strong data foundation and enabling connected, AIpowered insights across compliance, ESG, security, and privacy, this role helps shape a riskoptimized supply base—enabling faster decisions, greater resilience, and sustained trust at scale.

Business Program Management IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $96,500 - $188,400 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 $123,500 - $206,400 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.