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Procurement Operations

Professional IC

Career Explorer · Procurement, Supply Chain & Manufacturing · Procurement Operations

Entry: Procurement SpecialistIC ceiling: IC5Both

Individual contributor route

Technical or professional depth, without managing people.

  1. Procurement Specialist InternIC0Optional developmental level
  2. Associate Procurement SpecialistIC1
  3. Procurement SpecialistIC2
  4. Senior Procurement SpecialistIC3
  5. Lead Procurement SpecialistIC4
  6. Principal Procurement SpecialistIC5

Management route

Managing people. It is not the step above the individual route: it is a different job and asks for different evidence.

This family has no management ladder.

Source: Microsoft Careers