Global Supply Chain & Procurement Manager, AWS Infrastructure and Supply Chain - Energy Storage
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides a highly reliable, scalable, and low-cost cloud platform that powers thousands of businesses in over 190 countries. AWS’ Infrastructure Supply Chain & Procurement (ISCaP) organization works to deliver solutions to source, build and maintain our socially responsible data center supply chains.
We are a team of highly-motivated, engaged, and responsive professionals who enable the core sustainable infrastructure of AWS. Come join our team and be a part of history as we deliver results for the largest cloud services company on Earth!
We are seeking a Hardware Commodity Specialist to join a team that handles one of Amazon’s fastest growing commodities – Battery Backup Units (BBUs). In this role, the candidate will manage procurement and related operational supply chain activities in close collaboration with both internal and external cross functional teams.
These are critical for AWS to achieve continuity of supply and cost goals. We are open to hiring candidates to work out of Seattle, WA, USA. Key job responsibilities The successful candidate must be a self-starter and have ability to work in a fast-paced and ever-changing environment.
Candidates must have excellent analytical capabilities, supply chain experience. Candidate should be comfortable with diving deep into data sources to debug data related issues, and have strong writing skills. The ideal candidate will not only raise the bar on delivering the right supply at the right time, but also is a person who actively participates with a strong curiosity to understand the business end-to-end, and has a track record of using data to influence decision makers
In This Role You Will
- Understand forecasting, demand planning, material planning
- manufacturing processes to verify supply commitments Work with internal and external stakeholders to forecast battery demand and manage supply positioning globally to support last mile operations Own capacity planning with key OEMs and optimize supply chain network to best deliver for customers. Work with various analytics and software development teams to drive operational excellence Develop analytical tools and dashboards to track metrics, monitor SLAs
- report findings Drive EOL management, collaborate with engineering, DC operations and finance to ensure cross-functional alignment on supply, product roadmap and budget requirements
- 5+ years of procurement, supply chain, inventory management, contract management, lease administration or operations experience - Master's degree in Supply Chain, Business, Engineering, Finance
- a related technical field - Experience in procurement, supply chain, inventory management, contract management, lease administration or operations - Experience in strategic sourcing including vendor negotiations, global contract management, process improvement, operational and financial analysis - Experience with data analysis tools such as Advanced Excel, SQL, Tableau, Python - Experience in global supply chain management, managing cross-functional teams in a fast-paced consumer electronics product company
- 4+ years of program, project, product management
- leading a product implementation process experience - Experience in program, project, product management
- leading a product implementation process - Experience in data centers, infrastructure service providers
- related technology companies - Knowledge of battery industry / market Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability
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