Senior Cost Engineering Manager, Cost Engineering

About the role

Cost Engineering answers one fundamental question for Amazon: Are we paying the right price? We combine deep technical expertise with advanced analytical methodologies—should-cost modeling, market intelligence, and cost driver decomposition—to deliver transparent, fact-based insights that empower procurement teams to negotiate with confidence. Our vision is to make cost transparency a strategic capability across the organization, ensuring every procurement decision reflects what something should cost, not just what the market offers. We cover billions in managed spend across Amazon Global Procurement Organization with cost engineering, driven by an exponential growth since the team formation in 2022.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end should-costing on large-scale construction projects — reverse engineering supplier pricing to determine the true cost of constituent parts, labor, manufacturing, assemblies, overheads and expected profit margins
• Build reliable bottom-up cost models that simulate the industry benchmark with fact-based calculations, serving as anchoring price targets in negotiation
• Challenge supplier quotations with rigorous technical analysis, forcing transparency into supply chain cost structures and driving meaningful cost reductions
• Present should-cost findings and recommendations to senior leadership, acting as a trusted internal consultant on construction cost matters
• Co-develop AI-powered costing tools and feed scalable datasets alongside our AI & MI solutions
• Coverage of multiple regions as we expand our global should-costing footprint
• Establish and evolve should-cost methodologies during design and specification phases, collaborating with category managers, engineers, and construction teams
• Advise stakeholders on cost impacts of specification changes and identify design-to-cost opportunities with suppliers, working closely with Value Engineering team
• Define KPIs and scorecard metrics (E.g. gap-to-should-cost) that track supplier cost performance and strengthen long-term partnerships rooted in fairness and mutual understanding
• Drive change management as you introduce new costing approaches across procurement and the supply base

Qualifications

• 5+ years of program or project management experience
• 5+ years of supply chain experience
• Experience using data and metrics to determine and drive improvements
• Experience owning program strategy, end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership
• Experience being responsible/leading large and complex negotiations

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
• AI&Automation: Experience in leveraging AI, machine learning, or advanced analytics to improve cost modeling, automate procurement workflows, or build scalable datasets. You don't need to be a data scientist— but you should be comfortable working alongside AI teams, curating training data from real-world projects, validating model outputs, and identifying where intelligent automation can multiply your impact. A track record of enabling (not just consuming) AI tools in a procurement or engineering context is a strong differentiator.

Pay

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location.

Schedule

Not specified

Benefits

Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.