Lead Material Planner - Data Center Power & Cooling

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Herndon (VA); On-site; USD 163,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

RSUs

Job summary

Amazon Web Services, Inc. is seeking a Materials Planning Manager within the Power & Cooling team to own long-lead equipment planning for AWS data centers worldwide.

You will coordinate across design, construction, and supply partners to keep data centers on schedule. You will drive rolling three-year forecasts for long-lead equipment, manage milestones, and maintain a dynamic risk register to prevent delays, with escalation when needed.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of program or project management experience.
• 5+ years of supply chain management, planning, strategic sourcing, commodity management or program management experience.
• Experience managing, analyzing and communicating results to senior leadership while working cross functionally across several teams.

Responsibilities

• The Materials Planning Manager is a single threaded leader who serves as the orchestrator of long-lead equipment (LLE) planning and delivery execution for AWS data centers. This role drives forecast accuracy, milestone tracking, and risk management to ensure timely data center delivery.
• Demand Planning and Forecasting- You will spearhead the development and maintenance of a rolling three-year forecast for LLE, collaborating with business partners to capture evolving requirements. This includes managing schedule changes, tracking design modifications, and validating net new demand to maintain forecast accuracy. Your role requires coordinating with design teams to ensure equipment specifications align with construction timelines and maintaining a change management process that achieves first-time-right implementations.
• Milestone Management and Progress Tracking- As the single-threaded owner of milestone tracking, you will monitor the critical path from forecast creation through design, funding, delivery, and commissioning. This comprehensive tracking system enables proactive identification of potential delays, with a goal of maintaining 100% milestone achievement rate. You will exercise high judgment in determining when to elevate risks and which mitigation strategies to pursue, ensuring that potential delays are identified and addressed before impacting construction schedules.
• Risk Management and Prioritization- Your role focuses on tracking supplier delivery commitments against construction need-by dates, serving as an early warning system for potential schedule impacts. While Global Supply Chain Managers handle supplier negotiations, you will partner with them to highlight risks and support mitigation strategies. As the key liaison to the business, you will drive build prioritization decisions, maintaining a dynamic risk register that drives predicting and preventing delivery delays.
• Post-Delivery Support and Issue Resolution You will serve as the primary escalation point for post-delivery challenges at construction sites, including quality concerns and resource constraints. This responsibility requires building trusted relationships with suppliers and supply managers. When needed, you will lead war room sessions to resolve critical issues, targeting prompt resolution of issues.
• Success in this role directly impacts AWS's ability to deliver data centers on schedule, with performance measured by achievement of construction timelines and successful equipment installation. The position requires maintaining forecast accuracy, milestone tracking, and risk mitigation rather than supplier negotiations and capacity management.

Skills

Program management

Project management

Supply chain management

Planning

Strategic sourcing

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

Amazon Web Services, Inc. is seeking a Materials Planning Manager within the Power & Cooling team to own long-lead equipment planning for AWS data centers worldwide.

You will coordinate across design, construction, and supply partners to keep data centers on schedule. You will drive rolling three-year forecasts for long-lead equipment, manage milestones, and maintain a dynamic risk register to prevent delays, with escalation when needed.