Senior Global Category Manager, Amazon Custom Modules

Amazon; New York (NY); On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Senior Global Category Manager, where you will lead sourcing and pricing strategies for innovative AI/ML products. This dynamic role involves managing supply chain complexities and negotiating supplier agreements to ensure scalability and resiliency in manufacturing. Collaborate with a diverse team of experts to drive strategic initiatives and contribute to the success of cutting-edge cloud solutions. If you are passionate about technology and supply chain management, this is your chance to make a significant impact in a leading global organization.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in responding to proposals and developing solutions.
• Strong negotiation skills and ability to manage supplier relationships.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement sourcing strategies for AWS hardware.
• Negotiate complex supplier agreements and manage vendor escalations.

Skills

Negotiation Skills

Sourcing Strategies

Supply Chain Management

Analytical Skills

Project Management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business Economics

MBA or advanced degree in Supply Chain

Job description

Senior Global Category Manager, Amazon Custom Modules

Job ID: 2906341 | Amazon Data Services, Inc.

AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. In other words, we’re the people who keep the cloud running. We support all AWS data centers and all of the servers, storage, networking, power, and cooling equipment that ensure our customers have continual access to the innovation they rely on. We work on the most challenging problems, with thousands of variables impacting the supply chain — and we’re looking for talented people who want to help.

You’ll join a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, operations managers, and other vital roles. You’ll collaborate with people across AWS to help us deliver the highest standards for safety and security while providing seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost for our customers. And you’ll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides a highly reliable, scalable, and low-cost cloud platform that powers thousands of businesses in over 190 countries. AWS’ Infrastructure Supply Chain & Procurement (ISCaP) organization works to deliver cutting-edge solutions to source, build and maintain our socially responsible data center supply chains. We are a team of highly-motivated, engaged, and responsive professionals who enable the core sustainable infrastructure of AWS. Come join our team and be a part of history as we deliver results for the largest cloud services company on Earth!

This role will lead sourcing, pricing, geo-diversity, and second source manufacturing efforts for supply resiliency for AI/ML products added to our product roadmap. This role will manage the additional supply chain complexity when qualifying suppliers and manufacturing lines when transitioning from development to Mass Production. Additionally, this role will deliver our component multi-sourcing strategies, pricing, and enable contract manufacturing for the same platforms to ensure supply chain resiliency for our expanding AI/ML roadmap. This role will lead line qualification, capacity planning, and contract agreements during product development so that at launch, manufacturing capacity is scalable to meet our customer needs.

Key Job Responsibilities

1. Develop and implement Mechanical sourcing strategies for AWS hardware infrastructure.
2. Understand industry and technology trends.
3. Identify key technology trends in the industry and drive supplier product roadmaps and execute on strategic initiatives in those products.
4. Negotiate and implement complex supplier agreements and contracts by working with cross-functional stakeholders.
5. Develop negotiations strategies to deliver against business objectives and achieve sustainable relationships with suppliers.
6. Provide weekly core-team updates, deliver executive level updates on a monthly basis, and manage vendor escalations to resolve any issues related to the category.
7. Present to senior leadership via written narratives.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 6+ years of responding to requests for proposals (e.g., determining requirements, matching requirements to technical approach and solutions, developing solutions against requirements) experience

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Bachelor's degree in business economics, engineering, analytics, mathematics, statistics, information technology or equivalent
- MBA or an advanced degree in supply chain, business, engineering, finance or related technical or quantitative field.

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