Supply Chain Manager, Amazon Robotics Supply Chain at Amazon

Key job responsibilities
Supplier Management:

• Building and maintaining strong relationships with suppliers, monitoring their performance, and driving continuous improvement in cost, quality, and delivery.
• Manage relationships with senior leadership of external vendors

Strategic Sourcing:

• Developing and implementing sourcing strategies for assigned commodities, including identifying and evaluating potential suppliers.
• Lead large-scale negotiations for supply chain services contracts for engineering, electro-mechanical, IT-Software vendors.
• Develop and implement comprehensive procurement strategies

Cost Reduction:

• Identifying and executing initiatives to reduce the cost of indirect spend, including price negotiations and process improvements.

Supply Chain Management:

• Tracking and reporting on key performance indicators (KPIs) for assigned commodities, such as cost, quality, and delivery.
• Cross-functional Collaboration and stakeholder management.
• Reducing total landed cost.
• Process automation initiatives
• Material requirement planning
• Risk management and mitigation

A day in the life

• Maintain KPIs related to operational readiness and efficiency
• Reduce total landed costs
• RFI/RFP/RFQ
• Supplier Qualification
• Stakeholder Management
• Deal Negotiation & Execution
• Financial Modeling
• NDA/Contracting
• Manage technical, quality, and delivery requirements
• Resolve supply chain challenges and implement process improvements
• Lead indirect teams to deliver valuable projects
• Communicate effectively with internal and external leadership
• Drive improved financial performance through strategic sourcing
• Monitor and optimize supply chain performance metrics

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 5+ years of program or project management experience
• 5+ years of supply chain experience
• Experience being responsible/leading large and complex negotiations
• 5+ years of negotiations/cost savings, supplier excellence, and risk mitigation experience

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 2+ years of driving process improvements experience
• Master's degree, or MBA in business, operations, human resources, adult education, organizational development, instructional design or related field
• Experience implementing repeatable processes and driving automation or standardization
• 5+ years of Tableau or equivalent tools experience