Supply Chain - Purchase and Fulfilment Specialist II, ISCAP - Var

Amazon • Seattle, WA

13d

About The Position

AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation
of all AWS global infrastructure. In other words, we’re the people who keep the
cloud running. 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 — and we’re
looking for talented people who want to help.

You’ll join a diverse team of software, hardware, and network 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 (ISCaP) organization works to deliver
cutting-edge 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!

Key leadership traits required include the ability to influence and form strong
partnerships with vendors, internal business stakeholders and operational
excellence in managing multiple complex and competing priorities simultaneously.
A candidate who possess a strong sense of ownership over work and results.

If you love solving problems, being at the forefront developing and executing
processes in a highly ambiguous environment, identifying gaps and working to fix
the gaps which can be measured using metrics/SLAs, then this is the spot for
you. This is a high impact role offering an opportunity to drive end to end
Ordering and Fulfillment processes and influence business-critical decisions
impacting the supply and availability at the Data Centers.

We are seeking a Supply Chain Manager to join the AWS Infra Spares Planning
team. This role will be focused on Order, Fulfillment Management and Supply
Chain Analysis and Projects in support of Data Center Operation and Regional
Planning teams. This role will ensure correct PO placement and fulfillment of
the parts which will enable reporting on overall spend and trends for Spares
Program.

Requirements

• 5+ years of procurement, supply chain, inventory management, contract management, lease administration or operations experience
• 5+ years of relevant strategic sourcing including vendor negotiations, global contract management, process improvement, operational and financial analysis experience
• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Business, Engineering, Finance, or a related technical field
• Experience in procurement, supply chain, inventory management, contract management, lease administration or operations
• Experience in strategic sourcing including vendor negotiations, global contract management, process improvement, operational and financial analysis
• Experience with data analysis tools such as Advanced Excel, SQL, Tableau, Python
• Experience in global supply chain management, managing cross-functional teams in a fast-paced consumer electronics product company

Nice To Haves

• Master's degree in Business Administration, Finance, Economics, Computer Science, or a related field
• Experience in program, project, product management, or leading a product implementation process
• Experience in data centers, infrastructure service providers, or related technology companies

Responsibilities

• Flexible to accommodate working across different time zones, since it’s a global team
• Develop efficient and accurate processes/metrics for monitoring inflow of spares to achieve on-time-delivery SLAs with vendors.
• Having advanced MS Excel, MS-office and basic SQL is a must requirement. Ability to manage huge data sets and able to massage the data, create VLOOKUP and Pivots.
• Engage with internal stakeholders, vendors to lead and drive end to end procurement and fulfillment of spares process
• Demonstrate analytical, financial and quantitative skills and ability to use hard data and metrics to back up assumptions and develop business cases and perform ad hoc reporting and analysis as needed and quickly understand root cause, and identify scalable solutions
• Strong influencing skills and ability to think strategically and execute methodically
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment where ambiguity exists and continuous innovation is desired
• Committed to learning and expanding professional and technical knowledge
• Willingness to roll up your sleeves and do whatever is necessary to deliver capacity to Data Centers
• Strong track record of creative problem solving using lean principles, and the desire to create and build new processes.

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