Sr. Supply Chain Product Lifecycle Manager, Optical Modules

About the role

AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. We support all AWS data centers and all of the servers, storage, networking, power, and cooling equipment that ensure our customers have continual access to the innovation they rely on. The Networking team is looking for a results-oriented Sr. Supply Chain Product Lifecycle Manager to own Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) activities for Optical Modules.

Key responsibilities

• Create and execute end-to-end product lifecycle plan for optical modules in collaboration with Sourcing, Supply Chain and Engineering counterparts
• Develop and collaborate on product roadmap with engineering and sourcing counterparts
• Drive qualification of second source or new revision hardware with network hardware engineering counterparts as well as networking deployment teams
• Drive product portfolio qualification strategy and mitigate risks to meeting qualification timeline
• Conduct New Unique Difficult Different (NUDD) review of second source components
• Align new hardware feature requirements from internal network engineering teams and hardware development engineering teams
• Rationalize SKU portfolio to avoid redundant SKUs while ensuring optimal multi-source coverage
• Align SKU portfolio strategy with supply chain and engineering counterparts
• Manage BOM configurations and lifecycle status changes
• Align on ramp plan with engineering and supply chain for new products
• Create and align end of life and last time buy plans for SKUs that are phasing out
• Develop subject matter expertise in the category of networking hardware you manage to advise engineering, sourcing and supply chain counterparts on optimal lifecycle strategies
• Influence business partners, suppliers, and executive leaders to achieve product lifecycle management goals

About the team

As a Sr. Supply Chain PLM, you will be part of a three-pillar category team (Sourcing, Supply Chain, PLM) that will own end-to-end management of optical modules. You will participate in technical engineering reviews, collaborate on sourcing strategies, advise on supply chain objectives, drive qualifications across multiple engineering teams, coordinate with component and rack integrations suppliers and own program reporting to executive leaders. You will develop deep and practical knowledge of the hardware you manage as well as its application in the AWS network. In this role you will be looking at "what's next" on the technology roadmap so you can build a lifecycle strategy to support it.

Basic qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science or equivalent
• 7+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience
• 5+ years of technical product or program management experience
• Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules

Preferred qualifications

• 5+ years of project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management experience
• Experience defining KPI's/SLA's used to drive multi-million dollar businesses and reporting to senior leadership
• Experience with Networking hardware technologies such as optical modules, routers, switches, etc.