Sr. Technical Program Manager, AWS Manufacturing / Logistics

About the role

AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. The TPM role leads the planning and implementation of AWS cloud logistics warehouse and transportation capacity systems, as well as scaling and continuous improvement efforts.

Responsibilities

• Capacity modeling and planning for warehouse and transportation resources over 1/3/5-year horizons, factoring in demand variability, utilization, cycle times, and service level targets.
• Design and develop systems to identify, track, and resolve capacity bottlenecks across warehouse and transportation networks.
• Design and implement cost-reduction systems targeting strategic short/long-term savings in warehouse/transportation operations.
• Lead end-to-end projects to track, analyze, optimize, and reduce transportation and warehouse lead times/cost for fulfillment.
• Build end-to-end inventory management systems covering placement, positioning, prioritization, turns/cycles, excess/obsolete mitigation, inventory health monitoring, and weeks-of-supply/coverage analysis.
• Define and monitor business metrics, identify execution gaps, and drive corrective actions for capacity, cost, and cycle-time targets.
• Engage in continuous improvement initiatives to enhance sustainability, efficiency, and service levels across the fulfillment network.

Requirements

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

Qualifications

• 5+ years of project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management experience
• Experience managing projects across cross functional teams, building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules
• Experience defining KPI's/SLA's used to drive multi-million dollar businesses and reporting to senior leadership
• Experience in program management, logistics, operations, supply chain, transportation, or a related field