Amazon

Sr. Global Supply Manager, Optical

Amazon$171K — $231K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of program or technical project management experience
  • Experience in supply chain or materials management
  • Expertise in production processes and supply chain dependencies
  • Strong analytical and forecasting skills
  • Ability to manage and optimize production capacity

Responsibilities

  • Create and execute supply planning strategies for global needs
  • Prioritize activities and align with stakeholders for predictable supply
  • Manage supplier relationships and material allocation by demand priority
  • Optimize production capacity over a 12-month horizon
  • Lead cross-functional projects to meet commitments and goals
  • Identify and drive opportunities for competitive advantage in supply chain
  • Collaborate with Sourcing Manager and engineering on new component launches

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health insurance including medical, dental, and vision
  • 401(k) matching
  • Paid time off and parental leave
  • Mental health support and EAP services
  • Flexible spending accounts and adoption reimbursement programs
Full Job Description
The Networking team is looking for a results-oriented Global Supply Manager for optical modules and components. This individual will own supply planning and manufacturing capacity management with key optical module and component suppliers. They will partner with our near term and long range forecasting teams on forecast and will manage production planning with suppliers. Our Global Supply Managers are experts in planning, supply chain, and materials management. They play a pivotal role in supporting the explosive growth of AWS by ensuring continuity of supply.

Key job responsibilities

- Create and execute supply planning strategies to meet the category, department, project and customer needs

- Prioritize activities and align with stakeholders to deliver supply globally with a high degree of predictability

- Manage supplier relationships and allocation of material to demands based on priority

- Manage and optimize production capacity over a 12 month+ horizon

- Be a subject matter expert in the production process, lead time, and supply chain dependencies of your materials

- Manage cross-functional projects against plans and objectives to meet commitments and goals

- Identify and drive realization of opportunities for durable, relative advantage in your category

A day in the life

You will be working closely with multiple suppliers to align production capacity to forecast, mitigate supply chain risks, optimize SKU mix in production, support regional data center planning teams with continuity of supply resolution. You will work closely with your Sourcing Manager counterpart and engineering to launch new components or modules. In this role you will be looking at "what's next" on the technology roadmap and working to build a supply chain that will enable new technology and best in class supply chain performance.

About the team

The Networking team is made up of global category managers (GCM), global supply managers (GSM), and product lifecycle managers (PLM) who manage the broad base of networking suppliers and internal amazon initiatives that help build the AWS cloud. We drive supply continuity, cost optimization, and technology introduction for networking hardware. We are located throughout multiple regional hubs in the united states and work with suppliers and business partners globally. We are a mix of industry experts and those aspiring to grow our industry expertise. We all bring something valuable to the table from our unique backgrounds; we highlight and celebrate our diverse backgrounds and leverage them to our collective benefit as a team.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 5+ years of program management or technical project management experience

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Master's degree in a related technical field

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, CA, Cupertino - 171,000.00 - 231,300.00 USD annually

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Amazon Careers

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