Sr. HW Commodity Specialist, ISCaP Manufacturing Operations Commercial Management Team
Job summaryThis position is located in Seattle, WA, Arlington, VA or Austin, TX with options in Cincinnati, Salt Lake City, or Nashville.
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!Do you want to make history? Are you passionate about cloud technology? Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform, reshaping the way global enterprises consume information technology, and serving customers in over 190 countries.
We are seeking a category sourcing manager to help us fuel AWS' explosive growth.
You will be responsible for the strategic sourcing of the hardware powering AWS; this includes collaborating with stakeholders to define requirements and selecting a supplier to enable design and delivery of the product to our global data centers.
This team is a great fit for you ifo You enjoy creating and implementing category sourcing strategieso You like to negotiate complex agreements, pricing, and termso You appreciate collaborating and cultivating relationships with stakeholderso You value the development and maintaining a diverse, competitive supply base and enabling supplier performanceo You are interested in identifying, bench-marking, and realizing savings opportunitiesKey job responsibilitieso Contract negotiations and commercial management of contract manufacturers.
o Strong understanding of accounting practices and partnering with finance to conduct weekly, monthly and quarterly reconciliation of budgets.
Partner with operations to identify and help drive new product roadmaps and execute strategic quality/availability/cost improvement initiatives.
Analyze industry trends to develop and execute sourcing strategies that are in the best interest of our customers.
o Driving monthly and quarterly reviews with your manufacturer to drive the best performance on cost, quality, and deliveryo Successfully negotiate and close complex, multi-million dollar contract negotiations and sourcing agreementso Analyze data and implement vendor performance controls to ensure operational and cost excellence.
o Influence designs for manufacturing, quality and cost optimization.
Build a supplier base and business processes which scale with the business.
Drive change through excellent verbal and written communication with data driven inputs using lean methodologies that remove waste.
o Author white paper narratives to drive sourcing strategies and update leadership on supplier performance.
o Create mechanisms to ensure details of the business are understood, managed, and improved upon.
A day in the lifeOwn the sourcing, commercial negotiations, budgeting, cost, and business relationship of your contract manufacturer.
Is a critical part of the contract manufacturing process and responsible for formulating, communicating, and executing a sourcing strategy relative to their respective contract manufacturer.
Leads supplier sourcing / selection activities and successfully manages the supplier relationship to ensure that the supply chain is capable of delivering high quality and low cost, manufacturing services to support AWS server demand.
Work to apply lean manufacturing principles to their daily job in order to reduce, simplify and standardize their systems to reduce variability within contracts and supplier relations.
About the team Success in the role will be measured by the Sr.
HW Commodity Specialist's ability to deliver cost effective business solutions, close AWS beneficial business agreements, and measure/improve supplier performance all while driving a continuous improvement strategy to simplify and shorten the life cycle of each of these tasks.
This role will report directly into ISCaP's Head of Commercial Management Team.
There will be some travel required in this role including both domestic and a small number of international trips as needed.
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Estimated Salary: $20 to $28 per hour based on qualifications.
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!Do you want to make history? Are you passionate about cloud technology? Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform, reshaping the way global enterprises consume information technology, and serving customers in over 190 countries.
We are seeking a category sourcing manager to help us fuel AWS' explosive growth.
You will be responsible for the strategic sourcing of the hardware powering AWS; this includes collaborating with stakeholders to define requirements and selecting a supplier to enable design and delivery of the product to our global data centers.
This team is a great fit for you ifo You enjoy creating and implementing category sourcing strategieso You like to negotiate complex agreements, pricing, and termso You appreciate collaborating and cultivating relationships with stakeholderso You value the development and maintaining a diverse, competitive supply base and enabling supplier performanceo You are interested in identifying, bench-marking, and realizing savings opportunitiesKey job responsibilitieso Contract negotiations and commercial management of contract manufacturers.
o Strong understanding of accounting practices and partnering with finance to conduct weekly, monthly and quarterly reconciliation of budgets.
Partner with operations to identify and help drive new product roadmaps and execute strategic quality/availability/cost improvement initiatives.
Analyze industry trends to develop and execute sourcing strategies that are in the best interest of our customers.
o Driving monthly and quarterly reviews with your manufacturer to drive the best performance on cost, quality, and deliveryo Successfully negotiate and close complex, multi-million dollar contract negotiations and sourcing agreementso Analyze data and implement vendor performance controls to ensure operational and cost excellence.
o Influence designs for manufacturing, quality and cost optimization.
Build a supplier base and business processes which scale with the business.
Drive change through excellent verbal and written communication with data driven inputs using lean methodologies that remove waste.
o Author white paper narratives to drive sourcing strategies and update leadership on supplier performance.
o Create mechanisms to ensure details of the business are understood, managed, and improved upon.
A day in the lifeOwn the sourcing, commercial negotiations, budgeting, cost, and business relationship of your contract manufacturer.
Is a critical part of the contract manufacturing process and responsible for formulating, communicating, and executing a sourcing strategy relative to their respective contract manufacturer.
Leads supplier sourcing / selection activities and successfully manages the supplier relationship to ensure that the supply chain is capable of delivering high quality and low cost, manufacturing services to support AWS server demand.
Work to apply lean manufacturing principles to their daily job in order to reduce, simplify and standardize their systems to reduce variability within contracts and supplier relations.
About the team Success in the role will be measured by the Sr.
HW Commodity Specialist's ability to deliver cost effective business solutions, close AWS beneficial business agreements, and measure/improve supplier performance all while driving a continuous improvement strategy to simplify and shorten the life cycle of each of these tasks.
This role will report directly into ISCaP's Head of Commercial Management Team.
There will be some travel required in this role including both domestic and a small number of international trips as needed.
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Estimated Salary: $20 to $28 per hour based on qualifications.
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