Connectivity and Fiber Material Supply Chain Management, Global Connectivity Infrastructure Development

About the role

Today, Amazon Web Services provides a highly reliable, scalable, low cost infrastructure platform in the cloud that powers hundreds of thousands of businesses in 190 countries around the world. The AWS Cloud infrastructure is built around Regions and Availability Zones. AWS Regions provide multiple, physically separated and isolated Availability Zones connected with low latency, high throughput, and highly redundant networking. The connectivity and fiber materials that go into those connections decide how fast and how reliably we build. Would you like to join the team that sources and qualifies the materials behind that low latency, high throughput, and highly redundant network? Amazon Web Services is looking for a highly motivated, technically savvy Material Supply Chain Manager to develop and scale the connectivity and fiber material supply behind one of the world's largest and most complex networks. You own the strategy for a material category as a business, and you carry the commercial and technical relationship with the suppliers in that category. You define the sourcing strategy, lead the negotiations, and secure the supply we need to hit tight build schedules across regions. You work in a space where the business problem, the domain strategy, and the technical solution are often undefined, and you bring clarity and deliver independently. You lead the commercial engagements that drive the strategy, including originating and negotiating new contract structures with suppliers rather than executing terms someone else set. You partner with legal and finance to define the financial and legal guardrails for a deal, then assess contract terms against those guardrails on your own judgment. You shape the roadmap for next generation fiber and connectors, and you qualify those materials with engineering so we build faster and at lower cost. Your scope reaches across orgs and geographies. You influence the vendors, legal, finance, design engineering, and program teams who own infrastructure delivery, and you drive strategic decisions that affect build plans in multiple regions. You translate deployment demand into a supply plan, remove single source risks, and bring new suppliers online to protect our schedules and cost targets. You write the narratives that carry these decisions, and you present them to senior managers and directors. You will be part of a creative, efficient team tasked with tackling