Sr. Supplier Management
7 months ago
The Kuiper team is looking for a Senior Category Sourcing Manager (Semiconductors) to support business and engineering stakeholders in selecting, developing and managing business relationships with critical technology and service suppliers, and others as needed to execute on Kuiper objectives. The ideal candidate will have a successful track record developing and executing strategy, negotiating master agreements and statements of work, and managing supplier performance.
Experience working in new and ambiguous environments while solving complex problems with a broad range of cross functional stakeholders will be an advantage.
Export Control Requirement: Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.
Key job responsibilities
• Use industry and relevant data analysis, create and execute strategic sourcing plans for a technology, business unit, department, or project to help internal customers meet their goals
• Work with a range of stakeholders including business leaders, engineering leaders, legal, program management, and supply chain to negotiate a variety of agreements and contracts including term sheets, MOUs, NDAs, SOWs, development agreements, component purchase agreements and others
• Analyze industry trends and evolving technology to proactively identify opportunities to reduce cost, minimize risk, protect continuity of supply, and industry developments that benefit Amazon’s customers
• Influence suppliers' processes, technology decisions, and policies in ways that are mutually beneficial and sustainable for both organizations
• Prioritize projects and activities to deliver maximum cost reductions and reliable on-time delivery
• Manage cross-functional projects against plans and objectives to meet commitments and goals
• Drive financial modeling of large and complex deals
• Evaluate and monitor financial health of critical suppliers
• Effectively lead cross-functional meetings with clear document writing, agenda creation, note capture and follow-up activity coordination
This role can be located in San Diego, CA, Sunnyvale, CA, or Redmond, WA.
About the team
Here at Amazon, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. Amazon has ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and host annual and ongoing learning experiences. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 16 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.
Mentorship & Career Growth
Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded professional and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.
Innovation is part of our DNA Our goal is to be Earth's most customer-centric company, and we are just getting started. We need people who want to join an ambitious program that continues to push the state of the art in space based systems design and wireless systems.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Redmond, WA, USA | San Diego, CA, USA | Sunnyvale, CA, USA
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, business, engineering, finance or related technical or quantitative field or equivalent experience• 5+ years of relevant experience in the industry and/or academia.
• 5+ years of experience in sourcing or related disciplines specific to EE and Semiconductor components and Printed Circuit Board Assembly and Testing with EMS/JDM/ODM in high technology industry and managing suppliers
• 5+ years of direct experience in procurement (including purchase order placements), supplier and commodity management, contract negotiations, category sourcing or related supply chain experience
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
• Be comfortable with ambiguity and curious to learn new skills• Master’s degree in supply chain, business, engineering, finance or related field and 7+ years experience in procurement, sourcing, supply chain, and operations
• Technical acumen in foundry and semiconductor components, design/development/deployment lifecycle with ability to connect to related business matters such as cost, manufacturing cycle time and yields
• Experience in supplier evaluation/selection, should-cost models, negotiate MVA, NRE, and CAPEX/OPEX to ensure best-in-class cost for our products
• Experience in bill of materials configuration management, semiconductor, and final assembly
• High attention to details and proven ability to manage multiple, competing priorities simultaneously
• Excellent creative thinking skills with emphasis on developing innovative solutions to solve complex problems
• Experience leading agreement/contract negotiations for complex, mission critical technology supplier deals
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