Category Sourcing Manager, Amazon Leo

Amazon • Bellevue, WA

13h

About The Position

Amazon Leo is Amazon’s low Earth orbit satellite broadband network. Its mission
is to deliver fast, reliable internet to customers and communities around the
world, and we’ve designed the system with the capacity, flexibility, and
performance to serve a wide range of customers, from individual households to
schools, hospitals, businesses, government agencies, and other organizations
operating in locations without reliable connectivity.

Export Control Requirement: Due to applicable export control laws and
regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent
resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S.
as a refugee or granted asylum.

Amazon Leo team is looking for a global category sourcing leader to support
business and engineering stakeholders in selecting, developing and managing
business relationships with critical technology and service suppliers, and
others as needed to execute on Leo's objectives.

Requirements

• Prior experience in supply chain procuring specialty materials such as optical assemblies, precision components, or equivalent technical commodities
• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Business, Engineering, Finance, or a related technical field
• Experience working effectively across cross-functional teams and partnering well with people at all levels within an organization, including coaching of junior staff
• 3+ years of supply chain management, planning, strategic sourcing, commodity management or program management experience
• Experience using data and metrics to determine and drive improvements
• Experience using multiple ERP or other equivalent procurement tools
• Experience managing optics , optical assemblies, precision components, or equivalent technical commodities

Nice To Haves

• Master's degree in Supply Chain, Business, Engineering, Finance, or a related technical field
• Experience in manufacturing, process, or industrial engineering
• Experience of high level negotiation and successful internal and external relationship management

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute sourcing strategies
• Negotiate agreements and statements of work
• Drive hardware delivery through the product life cycle from requirements development to on-dock (on time at the right quality and cost)
• Analyze industry trends and evolving technology to proactively identify and execute projects that reduce cost, mitigate supply chain risks, protect continuity of supply, and exploit industry developments that benefit customers
• Influence suppliers' manufacturing processes, technology decisions, and policies in ways that are mutually beneficial and sustainable for both organizations
• Manage cross-functional projects against plans and objectives to meet commitments and goals
• Drive financial modeling of large and complex deals
• Evaluate and monitor critical supplier performance, including financial health, quality, on-time delivery, and cost
• Ensure orders are released and on schedule to meet needs of the production system
• Effectively lead cross-functional meetings with clear document writing, agenda creation, note capture and follow-up activity coordination
• Travel as needed (domestic & international)

Benefits

• health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
• 401(k) matching
• paid time off
• parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level