Supply Chain Manager II, Supplier Center of Excellence

About the role

The Supplier Center of Excellence (SCOE) team focuses on supply agility and resilience, supplier readiness to support Amazon demand, product quality, supplier performance management, cost containment and reduction, supplier capability development, risk identification and mitigation. Working closely with the Engineering team, Global Procurement, and other Supply Chain internal teams, the SCOE team will develop and lead supplier relationships for creating the greatest value in total cost, quality, service, security of supply, and innovation.

Responsibilities

• Serve as supply chain Subject Matter Expert (SME) for a variety of IT equipment within a category, and manage those categories from a procurement, readiness, supplier performance and risk standpoint.
• Develop Category Strategies, product roadmaps and other planning to improve supply agility and resilience, supplier coverage, diversification, value and security of supply.
• Requires collaboration and alignment with other stakeholders including IT engineering team, Product Management and other Supply Chain teams.
• Be responsible for supplier relationships including supplier performance, capability development, capacity planning, risk identification and mitigation.
• Interact with business partners to develop, engage and lead supplier relationships for creating the greatest value in cost, security of supply, risk management, and innovation.
• Engage with Suppliers in a detailed, hands on approach to support every day, operational requirements related to inventory readiness, changes in components and technology, reporting, OTIF and other metrics
• Support execution of sourcing strategies in collaboration with other sourcing teams and negotiate and manage contract compliance with suppliers and internal stakeholders
• Keep abreast of changing business requirements and market conditions, and manage suppliers and contracts to maintain value and competitiveness
• Perform spend analysis based on a variety of relevant information, prepare financial models, identify opportunities for efficiency gains and cost savings, and present business case and recommendations to internal business partners
• Support the strategic goals of the business partners; act as a 'consultant' to help achieve those objectives.
• Lead or participate in development of policies and procedures, process efficiency, and innovation for related programs
• Participate in implementation of new procurement systems and technology
• Network externally to facilitate competitive intelligence including best practices, emerging / potential sources of competitive advantage, market pricing, and benchmarking

Qualifications

• 3+ years of program or project management experience
• 3+ years of working cross functionally with tech and non-tech teams experience
• 3+ years of defining and implementing process improvement initiatives using data and metrics experience
• 2+ years of supply chain experience
• Bachelor's degree
• Knowledge of Excel (Pivot Tables, VLookUps) at an advanced level and SQL
• Experience defining program requirements and using data and metrics to determine improvements