AWS Global Supply Chain Manager, Archive Storage Solutions

AWS Infrastructure Services Supply Chain is seeking a supply chain professional to function as the end-to-end supply owner of our archive storage hardware platforms. In this role, you will build the supply strategy that ensures we can reliably deliver the capacity needed to enable the lowest cost and highest performance archive in the cloud. This role is predominately focused on the assurance of supply, but success also requires the ability to manage commercial aspects of a complex and multi-tiered supply chain.

You’ll join a diverse team of supply chain specialists, engineers (software, hardware and network), 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.
Our organization, 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 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.

The successful candidate must be a self-starter who is comfortable with ambiguity, has high attention to detail, and a proven ability to work in a fast-paced and ever-changing environment. Candidates must have excellent analytical capabilities, program management experience, be comfortable diving deep into data, have strong writing skills, lead executive-level reviews, and effectively influence decisions at all levels of the company.

The ideal candidate will have familiarity with at-scale hardware supply mechanisms, preferably related to server, storage or networking platforms.


Key job responsibilities
In this role, you will:

• Deep dive all levels of the archive supply chain to ensure demand is supportable and supply is resilient.
• Detect risk and mitigate outcomes before they become supply interruptions.
• Serve as a key member of the AWS Infrastructure supply chain team by 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.

Our environment is fast-paced and requires someone who is hard-working, meticulous with high bias for action, who gets things done at an effective pace, gets results, and is comfortable working with tight deadlines and changing priorities.


A day in the life
Key Responsibilities / Daily Activities include:
• Material/inventory Planning
• Supply/Demand planning / forecasting
• Maintaining continuity of supply (COS)
• Communicating supply status, risks/mitigations to internal stakeholders and executive leadership
• Working with data and analytics (ability to view, edit, and extrapolate data in Excel or similar spreadsheet software)
• Working with suppliers/vendors, inventory warehousing teams
• Managing all tiers of the archive supply chain from components to full rack assembly.
• Capacity planning (expanding new manufacturing lines)

Basic Qualifications

- 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

Preferred Qualifications

- 4+ years of program, project, product man