Principal, Supply Chain - AMZ15471.9

Amazon Inc.; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 144,000 - 193,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon.com Services LLC in Austin, TX is seeking a Principal, Supply Chain to manage strategic programs across Amazon’s entire supply chain. You will build strong partnerships with operations field leaders, identify impact of new initiatives, and deploy them onsite.

You will conduct strategic, quantitative analytics to lead the development and execution of programs, road maps, and metrics that enhance global infrastructure operations, procurement controls, and inventory management systems.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Engineering, Business Administration, Supply Chain, or related discipline with 2 years of relevant experience, or a Bachelor’s degree with 5 years of progressive experience in PM/related occupation.

Responsibilities

• Manage strategic programs spanning Amazon’s supply chain.
• Build partnerships with operations leaders to implement initiatives onsite.
• Conduct strategic, data-driven analytics to develop and support program roadmaps and dashboards.
• Lead development of sourcing strategy and end-to-end Procure-to-Pay processes.
• Provide governance, guidelines, policies, and training to ensure data integrity and workflows.
• Develop metrics and dashboards to measure vendor performance and program impact.
• Collaborate with teams to improve sourcing strategies and inventory utilization.
• Present data-driven business reviews to senior management.

Skills

Data analysis

Project management

Cost/benefit analysis

Procurement

Cross-geography leadership

Education

Master’s degree in Engineering, Business Administration, or Supply Chain

Bachelor’s degree + 5 years PM experience

Job description

Description

Employer: Amazon.com Services LLC

Position: Principal, Supply Chain - AMZ15471.9

Location: Austin, TX

Multiple Positions Available:

• Manage strategic programs that span across Amazon’s entire supply chain.
• Build strong partnership with operations field leaders to identify impact of new business initiatives in operations and successfully integrate and deploy them onsite.
• Conduct strategic, quantitative and deep-dive data/information analytics to lead the development, execution, implementation and support of innovative programs, process/road maps, frameworks and objectives that expands global infrastructure operations, procurement controls, and inventory management systems.
• Leads the development of comprehensive sourcing strategy, standardizes end to end Request for Proposal (RFP) to Purchase Order (PO) process, cost inputs and final selection.
• Identify current state by coordinating across organizations to identify paths toward desired end-state and developing appropriate actionable plans.
• Provide sourcing governance to include development of guidelines, policies, procedures and training to ensure end-user adherence to tool work flows and ensuring information integrity.
• Conduct analysis and assessment of tools data and information integrity, deep dive into root cause and develop action plan to cleanse current information and process to address work flow gaps and leverage data into actionable information and metrics.
• Provide governance and leadership in development of consistent definitions and metrics so as to create actionable, information-rich metrics packages and dashboards.
• Work with local teams and business partners to create and execute action plans to improve sourcing strategies and spares inventory utilization efficiency.
• Provide sourcing business decision support and participate/lead special project.
• Develop strategic relationships cross company to ensure optimal use of resources.
• Innovate within the space creating, automating or improving tools or processes that support better management of vendors and associated spend.
• Work with colleagues to report vendor metrics, identify and develop additional or improved metrics to assess and measure vendor performance and effectiveness.
• Partner with various operations and key internal stakeholders to support new business initiatives.
• Guide the direction of procurement activities, and improve the supply chain with the latest internal and external information.
• Present detailed data-driven business reviews to the senior management team, focused on measuring the impact and performance to create revolutionary supply chains.
• Domestic and international travel required up to 20% of the time.

(40 hours / week, 8:00am-5:00pm, Salary Range $143707 - $193200)

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Basic Qualifications

A Master’s degree or foreign equivalent degree in Engineering, Business Administration, Supply Chain, or a related discipline and 2 years of experience in the job offered or related occupation. In the alternative, employer will accept a Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent degree in Engineering, Business Administration, Supply Chain, or a related discipline followed by 5 years of progressively responsible post-baccalaureate experience in project or program management.

1. 2 years of experience in analyzing cost/benefit of projects.

2. 2 years of experience in procurement or purchasing

3. 2 years of experience in advanced data analysis skills and the ability to extract and synthesize data.

4. 2 years of experience in leading and supporting across geographies

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Preferred Qualifications

All applicants must meet all the above listed requirements.

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