Amazon

Strategic Planning Mgr Spares, IPS

Amazon$147K — $200K *
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years experience in program, project, or product management, or leading product implementation
  • 5+ years of supply chain management, planning, or strategic sourcing experience
  • Master's degree or MBA in supply chain management, operations, analytics, or related field preferred
  • Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
  • Proven analytical skills with ability to identify root causes and scalable solutions
  • Strong organizational skills with ability to manage competing priorities
  • Deep understanding of inventory management principles and systems

Responsibilities

  • Develop and communicate inventory strategies aligned with business goals
  • Create and execute replenishment strategies to achieve key outcomes
  • Leverage analytics to make strategic recommendations
  • Monitor historical usage trends and analyze forecast data
  • Collaborate with various stakeholders to understand demand drivers
  • Optimize inventory performance by reviewing forecasts and vendor performance
  • Develop strategies to monitor, reduce, and control inventory excess

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health insurance (medical, dental, vision)
  • 401(k) matching
  • Paid time off and parental leave
  • Mental health support and EAP services
  • Adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage
Full Job Description
We are looking for a high ownership and results-oriented individual to support Data Center Spares planning. You will work across the team and its customers to align on a short and long-range supply plan. You will contribute to our Global Spare Planning function to understand the needs of our data centers across our network and manage the inventory across different nodes of our supply chain.

If you love being at the forefront of industry growth and development, developing and executing processes in a highly ambiguous environment, identifying information gaps and collaboration needs, and driving business strategy, then this is the spot for you. This is a high impact role offering an opportunity to drive and influence business-critical decisions impacting the long-term future of the business.

Primary Responsibilities
• Develop and communicate comprehensive spare parts inventory strategies and processes in alignment with multiple channels, department plans, key inventory targets, and business goals.
• Create and execute strategies for the implementation of replenishment and inventory achieve key business outcomes while proactively identifying improvements.
• Leverage reports and analytics to make recommendations in line with business strategy and goals.
• Monitor and Review historical usage trends, research demand drivers, utilize forecast data ad statistical forecast models, analyze auto generated forecast output, and evaluate forecast results
• Interact with data center operations, hardware engineering, business service owners, supply chain teams, logistics operations, and other multi-functional stake holders to understand business needs and demand drivers.
• Review buying multiples, minimums, replenished forecasts, lead-times, and vendor performance to optimize inventory performance.
• Partner and collaborate with business partners, suppliers, and operations proactively for the collaborative forecasting process to drive inventory optimization, part availability and cost productivity.
• Develop Strategies and mechanisms to monitor, reduce, and control inventory excess across regions and categories

A successfull candidate will need to:
• Communicate ideas concisely to a wide variety of stakeholders for purposes ranging from informative to need for approvals from executives.
• Tkae Initiative, willing to "get hands dirty" in a start-up environment while simultaneously developing processes, automation, and delivering results
• Clearly define data requirements and metrics, working with teams to implement the entire data flow from capture to presentation and management
• High attention to detail and proven ability to manage multiple, competing priorities simultaneously

If you are an experienced professional with a passion for technology, driving change and impact at a Global scale, you might be a fit for the Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure supply chain and procurement team. Come armed with your knowledge for a position where you will own, build, and run spare parts supply chain and engage with multiple stakeholders to drive plans and execution to satisfy the demanding needs of a high growth industry, impacting markets worldwide.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 5+ years of program, project or product management, or leading product implementation experience

- 5+ years of supply chain management, planning, strategic sourcing, commodity management or program management experience

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Master's degree, or MBA in supply chain management, operations, engineering, analytics or related field

- Proven track record of high impact business results

- Excellent written composition and verbal communication skills

- Ability to operate both strategically and tactically in a high-energy, fast paced environment.

- A strong sense of ownership over work

- Superior analytical skills, with ability to dive in and quickly understand root cause and identify scalable solutions.

- Excellent business judgment, strong written and oral communication skills, and a practical, common sense approach to getting things done.

- High degree of organization and ability to manage multiple, competing priorities simultaneously.

- Deep understanding of Inventory Management principles and systems

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, WA, Seattle - 147,900.00 - 200,100.00 USD annually

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