Sr. Manager, Global Supply Chain , Amazon Prime Air

Amazon • Seattle, WA

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About The Position

Imagine building the supply chain that will deliver packages to customers in
under an hour—by drone. Prime Air is making this vision real, and we need an
exceptional supply chain leader to scale it globally.
You will own the end-to-end supply chain strategy for Prime Air's revolutionary
drone delivery system. This means leading the teams, mechanisms, and supplier
partnerships that enable us to deploy and scale autonomous delivery across the
US and Europe. You will work at the intersection of aerospace innovation,
high-volume manufacturing, and customer obsession—solving supply chain
challenges that have never been solved before.

Check out more about Prime Air on the About Amazon blog.

Why This Role Matters

Prime Air is scaling from pilot to production. The supply chain you build will
directly enable or constrain our ability to delight customers with ultra-fast
delivery. Your decisions on supplier strategy, inventory positioning, and
operational readiness will impact millions of deliveries and define how quickly
we can grow.
This is a rare opportunity to build something from the ground up—with Amazon's
resources, customer base, and innovation culture behind you.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent
• 10+ years of supply chain experience across contracting, demand management, planning, procurement, and supplier operations/manufacturing oversight
• 7+ years of team management experience leading high-performing supply chain organizations with interfaces with technical engineering teams and supplier quality / quality engineering teams
• Proven ability to define program requirements and use data and metrics to drive improvements
• Experience owning supply chain strategy end-to-end and communicating results to senior leadership

Nice To Haves

• Track record of managing portfolios of complex improvement projects
• Experience implementing repeatable processes and driving automation or standardization
• Background in aerospace, automotive, or consumer electronics industries with high-volume manufacturing
• Expertise in scaling supply chains through rapid growth phases

Responsibilities

• Lead High-Performing Teams: Manage teams across supply chain strategy, commodity and contract management, demand planning and procurement, and supplier engineering and operations. Build and develop talent that can scale with our rapid growth.
• Drive Rate and Scale Readiness: Transform our supply chain to support Prime Air's deployment and expansion while maintaining quality and managing affordability. Ensure we can meet growth targets without compromising on safety or customer experience.
• Orchestrate Complex Supplier Networks: Interface with hardware suppliers for drone systems, ground systems, and software, plus engineering services providers, logistics partners, and industry groups. Negotiate contracts, manage relationships, and drive supplier performance across the US, Europe, and Asia.
• Partner Cross-Functionally: Collaborate with Prime Air Leadership, Program and Product teams, Engineering, Quality, Manufacturing and Test, and Commercial Operations to align supply chain strategy with business objectives.
• Invent and Simplify: Benchmark with Amazon leaders across similar businesses to identify opportunities for innovation and process improvement.

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: Manager