Global Robotics Supply Chain Sourcing Manager

Amazon Inc.; Massachusetts; On-site; USD 92,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon Robotics in the Boston, MA area seeks a seasoned Supply Chain leader to guide supplier and logistics decisions for robotics products from concept to scaled deployment.

You will partner with hardware engineering, operations, and program teams to define commodity strategies, assess costs, and enable rapid product development while achieving payback targets. The role offers robust benefits and a path to leadership within a fast-growing robotics organization.

Qualifications

• Experience using data and metrics to determine and drive improvements.
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related field.
• 2+ years of high volume manufacturing operations or sourcing environments experience.
• Experience in supply chain, commodity, and supplier management in a high volume, global sourcing and operations manufacturing environment with a global supply base of contract manufacturers.
• 2+ years of direct experience in Sourcing Mechanical Components, including Machined Parts, Stamped Parts, Plastic Parts, and/or Raw Materials.

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional supply chain team dedicated to the supplier and supply chain design, sourcing and logistics decisions, and supply chain execution for robotics products from concept, through development, to scaled deployment.
• Act as single point of contact for program resources to communicate Supply Chain decisions and progress, provide feedback on supply chain implications of program decisions and changes, and support financial planning and capital approvals for the program.
• Work with Robotics leadership to ensure partnership between Robotics Supply Chain, hardware engineering, operations and program teams on commodity and supplier selection, cost performance tradeoff analysis, cost road map development and execution, and enabling rapid product development stages, and delivering an effective path to scaled deployment.
• Responsible for definition and approval of the Product level Supply Chain Strategy documents, including identification of critical components and suppliers, product cost roadmap to meet payback targets, definition of capacity plan and associated sourcing and tooling requirements, supply chain risk assessment & mitigation plans.
• Work with sourcing in developing negotiation strategies for categories which impacts the product to deliver against business objectives and achieve sustainable relationships with strategic suppliers pertaining to Amazon Robotics products supporting the priority programs as driven by the Operating Plan.
• Work with GCMs on managing overall supplier relationships including supplier performance, capability development, capacity planning, contracting, risk mitigation, and cost and quality improvements.
• Managing overall supplier relationships including supplier performance, capability, capacity planning, contracting, risk mitigation, cost and quality improvements.
• Working with technical operations, engineering, and program teams on new product introduction programs to define standard and custom product requirements ensuring sourcing strategies meet the technical capabilities, cost, and business goals.
• Developing efficient and accurate mechanisms for communicating forecast and capacity requirements for sustaining and new products.
• Guiding the purchasing and planning teams by monitoring supplier performance and addressing supply and/or quality issues.
• Aligning supplier strategies to Robotics goals for sustaining production and new product.
• Development and execution of global commodity strategies that align business requirements with supplier capabilities.
• Maintaining monthly supplier scorecards and conducting quarterly executive business reviews.

Skills

Data analytics

Sourcing experience

Global supply chain

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related field

Master's degree in Engineering or Technology

Job description

Amazon Robotics in the Boston, MA area seeks a seasoned Supply Chain leader to guide supplier and logistics decisions for robotics products from concept to scaled deployment.

You will partner with hardware engineering, operations, and program teams to define commodity strategies, assess costs, and enable rapid product development while achieving payback targets. The role offers robust benefits and a path to leadership within a fast-growing robotics organization.