AWS Global Supply Chain Manager, AWS Infrastructure Services, Amazon Custom Modules

AWS Infrastructure Supply Chain Management

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 — 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.

AWS' Infrastructure Supply Chain & Procurement (ISCaP) 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. We are seeking a highly effective supply chain professional to manage one of our most complex commodities. 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 to help enable AWS's ISCaP team achieve continuity of supply and cost goals.

The successful candidate must be a self-starter comfortable with ambiguity, with 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 communicate clearly and effectively to all levels of the company, both in writing and in meetings. The ideal candidate will not only raise the bar on delivering the right supply at the right time by deep diving into data, but is a person who 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.

In this role, you will:

• 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.

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.

Key job responsibilities include:

• Maintaining continuity of supply for the categories and/or components they manage.
• Developing clear action plans to drive global supply availability and execute on supply chain strategies.
• Leading internal engagements across Supply Chain, Engineering, NPI, Logistics, Planning and Business organizations while engaging closely with suppliers on supply monitoring and status.
• Managing supplier relationships and communication, tracking orders and inventory levels, processing purchase orders, ensuring timely delivery, coordinating material requirements with internal teams, maintaining accurate procurement documentation, and leading cross-functional initiatives while ensuring timely delivery and quality standards across global operations.

A day in the life includes:

• 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
• Working with suppliers/vendors, inventory warehousing teams
• Managing electromechanical component supply chain
• Capacity planning (expanding new manufacturing lines)

On a typical day, you will:

• Perform forecasting, demand analysis, material/inventory management, and manage supply buffers
• Understand manufacturing processes to verify supply commitments and reduce cycle times
• Work with component suppliers and server manufacturers to analyze, reconcile allocation and monitor changes and cancellations
• Participate in requirements gathering
• Understand the supply chain network and work with various analytics and software development teams, driving automation
• Develop analytical tools and dashboards to track metrics, monitor SLAs, and report findings
• Produce written recommendations and insights to inform key stakeholders of supply chain health and help shape solution design

You will be responsible for:

• Forecast generation and demand planning
• Allocations of AWS material from inventory hubs to suppliers
• Requirement and Specification reviews with Hardware Engineering
• Ocean, air, and ground transportation planning
• Supply heatmap generation

About the team:

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