Senior Global Category Manager, Amazon Custom Modules

Amazon; New York (NY); On-site; USD 133,000 - 221,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Global Category Manager to lead sourcing and pricing strategies for AWS hardware infrastructure. This role involves managing supply chain complexities, negotiating supplier agreements, and ensuring supply chain resiliency for AI/ML products. Join a diverse team of experts in a culture that values innovation and collaboration, where your contributions will directly impact the future of cloud technology. If you're passionate about driving strategic initiatives and enhancing operational efficiency, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in developing and executing business agreements.
• Strong negotiation skills and ability to manage supplier relationships.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement sourcing strategies for AWS hardware infrastructure.
• Negotiate complex supplier agreements and contracts.
• Provide core-team updates and resolve vendor escalations.

Skills

Negotiation

Supply Chain Management

Business Strategy

Analytical Skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in business economics

Bachelor's degree in engineering

Bachelor's degree in analytics

Bachelor's degree in mathematics

Bachelor's degree in statistics

Bachelor's degree in information technology

Job description

Senior Global Category Manager, Amazon Custom Modules

Job ID: 2946360 | Amazon Web 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.

AWS serves over a million active customers in more than 190 countries. We are steadily expanding global infrastructure to help our customers achieve lower latency and higher throughput. As our customers grow their businesses, AWS will continue to provide infrastructure that meets their global requirements.

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!

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a highly effective candidate to identify, create, develop and integrate innovative technology to deliver the best operating, lowest cost infrastructure in the world.

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

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 5+ years of developing, negotiating and executing business agreements experience
- Bachelor's degree in business economics, engineering, analytics, mathematics, statistics, information technology or equivalent

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

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

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $133,200/year in our lowest geographic market up to $220,200/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits.

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