Global Category Sourcing Manager, Amazon Leo

Amazon • Bellevue, WA

20h • Onsite

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. The 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

• 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
• 4+ years of relevant strategic sourcing including vendor negotiations, global contract management, process improvement, operational and financial analysis experience
• Experience with data analysis tools such as Advanced Excel, SQL, Tableau, Python
• Experience managing machined parts, optics, wire harnesses, valves, motors, battery, hardware components, or equivalent technical commodities
• Experience using multiple ERP or other equivalent procurement tools
• Prior experience in supply chain procuring machined parts, optics, harnessing, valves, motors, battery, hardware, or equivalent technical commodities
• A successful track record developing and executing sourcing strategies, negotiating agreements and statements of work

Nice To Haves

• Master's degree in Supply Chain, Business, Engineering, Finance, or a related technical field
• Experience with Continuous Improvement and Six Sigma methodologies

Responsibilities

• 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

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
• sign-on payments
• restricted stock units (RSUs)

What This Job Offers

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