Global Category Manager, Amazon Leo

About the role

The Amazon Leo Electronic Supply Chain team is seeking an experienced Global Category Manager for EE Components, Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs), Flexible Printed Circuit boards (FPCs) and Flexible Printed Circuit Board Assemblies (FPCAs).

Responsibilities

• Managing overall supplier relationships including supplier performance, capability, capacity planning, contracting, risk mitigation, and cost and quality improvements
• Collaborating with technical operations, engineering, and program teams on new product introduction programs to define standard and custom product requirements to ensure that sourcing strategies meet the technical capabilities, cost, and business objectives
• Developing efficient and accurate mechanisms for communicating forecast and capacity requirements for sustaining and new products
• Working 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
• Analyzing industry trends and evolving technology to proactively identify opportunities to reduce costs, minimize risk, protect continuity of supply, and industry developments that benefit Amazon’s customers
• Influencing suppliers' processes, technology decisions, and policies in ways that are mutually beneficial and sustainable for both organizations
• Prioritizing projects and activities to deliver maximum cost reductions and reliable on-time delivery
• Driving supplier selection, on-boarding, qualification and development of Approved Manufacturers’ List
• Evaluating and monitoring critical supplier performance, including financial health, quality, on-time delivery, and cost
• Supporting the purchasing and planning teams by monitoring supplier performance and addressing supply and/or quality issues
• Aligning supplier strategies to Amazon Leo objectives for sustaining production and new product release
• Developing a commodity and supplier technology roadmap, aligning business requirements with supplier capabilities
• Responsible for maintaining supplier scorecards and conducting executive business reviews
• Periodic travel to supplier’s domestic and international manufacturing sites, approximately 15%

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Business, Engineering, Finance, or a related technical field
• 3+ years of direct experience in component lifecycle management, last time buy (LTB) execution and mitigations and alternate sourcing qualifications
• 3+ years experience in supplier evaluation/selection, should-cost models, negotiate MVA, NRE, and CAPEX/OPEX to ensure best-in-class cost for our products
• Experience managing large value, multi-year contracts for complex engineered products
• Experience in Manufacturing, Aerospace, Automotive, and/or Consumer Electronics industries
• Experience working with a range of partners and component suppliers, including those engaged in technology development
• Technical acumen in EE (Electrical Engineering), foundry and semiconductor components, design/development with ability to connect to related business matters such as cost, manufacturing cycle time and yields