Senior Planning Manager: Global Supply and Inventory planning

Amazon • Sunnyvale, CA

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About The Position

The Supply Planning Manager is responsible for all internal and external
activities related to supply planning from production forecasts to finished good
delivery. To succeed in this role, you need to be data driven, business
oriented, cost conscious, and customer-centric.

Supply Planning Managers are responsible for production planning, inventory
allocation across regions and order fulfillment for Amazon Devices Accessories.

Supply Planning Managers are connected in the planning process throughout a
product’s entire lifecycle, from New Product Introduction (NPI) to End of
Manufacturing (EOM).

A typical week starts by understanding week-over- week demand changes and how
that impacts the business’s ability to balance supply to demand.

You will analyze attainment and committed supply versus planned as inputs change
and will communicate supply and operations constraints to cross-functional
stakeholders and executives. You will anticipate stocking levels based on demand
strategies, create and implement risk mitigation strategies to eliminate supply
chain disruptions and drive decisions based on costs using data and inputs from
cross-functional teams.

Your weekly planning deliverables will drive purchase order decision and
component purchases upstream to suppliers and set the production strategy with
Amazon’s electronic manufacturing suppliers.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree, or 7+ years of professional or military experience
• 5+ years of with Excel experience
• Experience working with complex data sets
• Experience communicating results to senior leadership

Nice To Haves

• Knowledge of statistics or other analytical techniques
• Experience with SQL
• 2+ years of working with or evaluating AI systems experience
• Experience working with Data & AI related technologies, including, but not limited to, AI/ML, GenAI, Analytics, Database, and/or Storage

Responsibilities

• production planning
• inventory allocation across regions
• order fulfillment
• analyze attainment and committed supply versus planned
• communicate supply and operations constraints to cross-functional stakeholders and executives
• anticipate stocking levels based on demand strategies
• create and implement risk mitigation strategies to eliminate supply chain disruptions
• drive decisions based on costs using data and inputs from cross-functional teams
• drive purchase order decision and component purchases upstream to suppliers
• set the production strategy with Amazon’s electronic manufacturing suppliers

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