Export Control Requirement: Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.
The ideal candidate will have a successful track record working with a global supply base that is scaling their production in order to achieve business needs. Experience working in new and ambiguous environments while solving complex problems with a broad range of cross functional stakeholders will be an advantage.
Key job responsibilities
• Ensuring on time delivery of ground equipment to Kuiper global sites and major sub-assemblies to the supplier production facility.
• Working with the sourcing manager and tier 1 supplier to identify and resolve sub-tier supply constraints.
• Working with the sourcing manager to develop supplier performance metrics to track day-to-day supply chain operations.
• Collaborating with engineers to gain an in-depth knowledge of ground systems development, including emergent demand.
• Communicating and managing Kuiper delivery requirements.
• Proactively support sourcing managers and internal stakeholders to ensure supplier capacity plan actively matches demand plan
• Capturing non-ERP based demand and flowing through the ERP system.
• Developing tier 1 and tier 2 supply planning mechanisms that do not rely on ERP system.
• Managing supply chain reporting (production, clear to build) implementation and usage to develop the right metrics to ensure supply availability.
A day in the life
The Amazon Leo team is looking for a Senior Supply Chain Manager to support business and engineering stakeholders by ensuring ground infrastructure equipment are delivered on time by the supply base. This will require the Supply Chain Manager to work closely with the planning and sourcing functions as well as the supply base to understand and resolve any sub-tier supply constraints, production constraints, and new schedule developments.
The Senior Supply Chain Manager will develop supplier's performance metrics to track day-to-day supply chain operations. Additionally, the Senior Supply Chain Manager will work with engineering customers to identify emergent demand for new product development and ensure the supply base has sufficient capacity to support both planned production and emergent development work.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 2+ years of program, project or product management, or leading product implementation experience
- 6+ years of related industry experience
- 8+ years of data analysis using tools such as Excel, Pivot Tables, SQL, Tableau, or equivalent experience
- 8+ years of high volume manufacturing operations or sourcing environments experience
- Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Business, Engineering, or a related field
- Experience with Continuous Improvement and Six Sigma methodologies
- Experience in global supply chain management, managing cross-functional teams in a fast-paced consumer electronics product company
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Master's degree in Business Administration, Finance, Economics, Computer Science, or a related field
- Experience in data centers, infrastructure service providers, or related technology companies
- Experience in negotiations with global suppliers with a proven track record in cost reduction
- Experience in procurement practices working with engineering, supply chain and Tier 1 OEM partners
- Experience practicing best-in-class procurement processes (category management, benchmarking, should-cost models, RFX, reverse auction, contracting, or equivalent)
