Sr. Hardware Commodity Specialist, AI & Compute Products - Supply Chain & Procurement
About The Position
AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. 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. You’ll join a diverse team of software, hardware, and 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. 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 organization works to deliver 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! We are seeking a highly effective supply chain professional to manage AWS' Silicon / Custom Silicon supply chain. In this role, the candidate will manage a semiconductor supply chain with multiple products in close collaboration with both internal and external cross functional teams. These qualifications are critical to help enable AWS’s AIS team achieve continuity of supply and cost goals.
Requirements
- 5+ years of related industry experience
- 5+ years of data analysis using tools such as Excel, Pivot Tables, SQL, Tableau, or equivalent experience
- 5+ years of high volume manufacturing operations or sourcing environments experience
- Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Business, Engineering, or a related field
- Experience in program, project or product management, or leading product implementation
- Self-starter comfortable with ambiguity, high attention to detail, and a proven ability to work in a fast-paced and ever-changing environment.
- Excellent analytical capabilities, program management experience, comfortable diving deep into data, strong writing skills, lead executive-level reviews, and communicate clearly and effectively to all levels of the company, both in writing and in meetings.
- Actively participates with a strong curiosity to understand the business end-to-end, and has a track record of using data to influence decision makers.
- Work closely with cross-functional teams to understand weekly demand signal changes and impacts on subcomponents level.
- Fully responsible to audit forecast and exchange forecast with the supplier and ensure the supplier delivers the supply against forecast.
- Dive deep on demand data using the limited data system we have currently.
Nice To Haves
- Master's degree in Supply Chain, Business, Engineering, or a related field
- Experience in data centers, infrastructure service providers, or related technology companies
- Experience in negotiations with global suppliers with a proven track record in cost reduction
- Experience in procurement practices working with engineering, supply chain and Tier 1 OEM partners
Responsibilities
- Serve as a key member of the AWS Infrastructure supply chain team in helping to define and deliver complex supply chain strategies.
- Design, develop and maintain scalable and reliable analytical tools, dashboards, and metrics that drive key decisions and resource prioritization.
- Understand the technical requirements of our partners and work closely with the internal technical teams to guide the direction of activities that will impact our supply chain.
- Produce written recommendations and insights for key stakeholders to help shape solution design.
- Handle multiple projects at once, deal with ambiguity and rapidly-changing priorities.
- Design, develop and maintain scalable and reliable analytical tools, dashboards, and metrics that drive key decisions and resource prioritization.
- Think through the mitigation plan if facing any supply issue and proactively communicate the supply impact to stakeholders.
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)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
