Technical Sourcing Manager, AWS Custom 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 the servers, storage, networking, power, and cooling equipment that ensure our customers have continual access to the innovation they rely on. This role will lead sourcing, pricing, geo-diversity, second source manufacturing, and supplier relationship efforts for supply resiliency for networking, storage, core compute, and AI/ML products. You’ll manage supply chain complexity when qualifying suppliers and manufacturing lines during transitions from development to mass production, deliver component multi-sourcing strategies, pricing, and enable contract manufacturing to ensure resiliency for our expanding platform roadmap.

As the primary supplier contact, you’ll focus on capacity planning and contract agreements during product development to ensure scalable manufacturing capacity at launch. AWS serves over a million active customers in more than 190 countries, and we continue to expand our global infrastructure to meet their needs.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement mechanical and general sourcing strategies for AWS hardware infrastructure.
• Understand industry and technology trends, identify key trends, and drive supplier product roadmaps to execute strategic initiatives.
• Negotiate and implement complex supplier agreements and contracts by working with cross-functional stakeholders.
• Develop negotiation strategies to deliver against business objectives and achieve sustainable supplier relationships.
• Provide weekly core-team updates, deliver executive-level updates monthly, and manage vendor escalations to resolve category-related issues.
• Present to senior leadership via written narratives.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience responding to requests for proposals (e.g., determining requirements, matching requirements to technical approach and solutions, developing solutions against requirements).
• 6+ years of Global Category Manager experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business economics, engineering, analytics, mathematics, statistics, information technology, or equivalent.
• Bachelor's degree or MBA in supply chain, business, engineering, finance, or a related technical or quantitative field.

Skills

• Exhibits excellent judgment and high standards.
• Able to dive deep and stay detail-oriented.
• Innovative mindset with a strong results orientation.
• Passion for inspiring and leading teams.
• Thinks big and drives bold ideas to completion.

About the team

AWS Infrastructure Supply Chain & Procurement is a team of highly motivated, engaged, and responsive professionals who enable the core sustainable infrastructure of AWS. We work on challenging problems with thousands of variables impacting the supply chain, collaborating across AWS to deliver the highest standards for safety, security, and seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost.

Amazon values diverse experiences and encourages candidates from non-traditional career paths to apply. We foster an inclusive culture that embraces learning, curiosity, and uniqueness, with employee-led affinity groups and ongoing events like Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity).

Benefits

• Comprehensive health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D, and optional supplemental life plans).
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and Mental Health Support.
• Medical Advice Line and Flexible Spending Accounts.
• Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage.
• 401(k) matching.
• Paid time off and parental leave.
• Sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs).

Learn more about our benefits at amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

Pay

USA, TX, Austin - $147,900.00 - $200,100.00 USD annually

USA, WA, Seattle - $147,900.00 - $200,100.00 USD annually