What are the responsibilities and job description for the Supply Chain Projects Manager, Spares position at Amazon?
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Job summary
This position is located in Herndon, VA
We are looking for a results-oriented individual to support ISCaP planning and sourcing requirements for mission critical part supply chain for AWS data centers. You will work across the team and its customers to align on a short and long-range supply plan. You will contribute to our Global Spare Planning function to understand the needs of our data centers across our network and manage the inventory across different nodes of our supply chain.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides a highly reliable, scalable, and low-cost cloud platform that powers thousands of businesses in over 190 countries. AWS’ Infrastructure Supply Chain & Procurement (ISCaP) organization works to deliver cutting-edge solutions to source, build and maintain our socially responsible data center supply chains. We are a team of highly-motivated, engaged, and responsive professionals who enable the core sustainable infrastructure of AWS. Come join our team and be a part of history as we deliver results for the largest cloud services company on Earth!
If you love being at the forefront of industry growth and development, developing and executing processes in a highly ambiguous environment, identifying information gaps and collaboration needs, and driving business strategy, then this is the spot for you. This is a high impact role offering an opportunity to drive and influence business-critical decisions impacting the long-term future of the business.
Key job responsibilities
• Conduct strategic, quantitative and deep-dive data/information analytics to lead the development, execution, implementation and support of innovative programs, process/road maps, frameworks and objectives that expands global infrastructure operations, procurement controls, and inventory management systems.
• Create and own project plans and execution for global hardware procurement and supply projects impacting Amazon's Infrastructure.
• Coordinate with cross-functional teams to develop process/project plans.
• Provide governance to include development of guidelines, policies, procedures and training to ensure end-user adherence to tool work flows and ensuring information integrity and conduct analysis and assessment of tools data and information integrity, deep dive into root cause and develop action plan to cleanse current information and process to address work flow gaps and leverage data into actionable information and metrics.
• Work with local teams and business partners to create and execute action plans to improve spares inventory utilization efficiency.
• Interface with other key organizations which contribute to AWS spares inventory (both front-end buying decisions and back-end consumption and/or liquidation of under-utilized spares) and will provide business case analysis and draft proposals for ensuring optimization of tools and inventory spares across both server and network systems lifecycle management.
• Provide business decision support and participate/lead special projects and develop strategic relationships cross company to ensure optimal use of resources.
• Innovate within the space creating, automating or improving tools or processes that support better management of vendors and associated spends within the data center environment.
• Work with colleagues to report team metrics, identify and develop additional or improved metrics to assess and measure team performance and effectiveness, partner with various operations and key internal stakeholders, including IPS (InfraOps Planning & Sourcing)
, Logistics, Data Center Operations (DCO), Infrastructure Supply Chain and Procurement (ISCaP), Network, and AWS systems development teams to support new business initiatives, inventory & physical materials management & business controls, server rack deployment and lifecycle maintenance; and guide the direction of procurement activities, and improve the supply chain with the latest internal and external information.
• Present detailed data-driven business reviews to the senior management team, focused on measuring the impact and performance to create revolutionary supply chains.
As a contributor on the team, the successful candidate will embody the following:
- Communicate ideas concisely to a wide variety of stakeholders for purposes ranging from informative to need for approvals from executives.
- Embody a true pioneering spirit in a start-up environment while simultaneously developing processes, automation, and delivering results
- Clearly define data requirements and metrics, working with teams to implement the entire data flow from capture to presentation and management
- High attention to detail and proven ability to manage multiple, competing priorities simultaneously
If you are an experienced professional with a passion for technology, driving change and impact at a Global scale, you might be a fit for the Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure supply chain and procurement team. Come armed with your knowledge for a position where you will own, build, and run spare parts supply chain and engage with multiple stakeholders to drive plans and execution to satisfy the demanding needs of a high growth industry, impacting markets worldwide.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 2 years of experience leading and managing supply planning and/or procurement
- BA/BS or advanced degree in Engineering, Finance, Business, or Mathematics
- 3 years of relevant work experience in demand planning, supply planning, supply chain planning, and/or inventory planning
- 2 years of experience with Supply and Supplier Management
- 2 years of experience with advanced Excel features (such as V-lookups & pivot tables)
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Intermediate to advanced knowledge of SQL, Python, or other programming languages are a plus
- MBA or Master’s Degree in Supply Chain/Operations or related field.
- Previous technology hardware planning and operation knowledge
- Experience with Inventory Modeling / Supply Chain Management concepts, e.g., forecasting, planning, optimization, regression analysis
- Strong analytical skills including the ability to distill, synthesize, and draw conclusions on large amounts of data
- Proven track record of high impact business results
- Excellent written composition and verbal communication skills
- Ability to operate both strategically and tactically in a high-energy, fast paced environment.
- A strong sense of ownership over work and results
- Superior analytical skills, with ability to dive in and quickly understand root cause and identify scalable solutions.
- Excellent business judgment, strong written and oral communication skills, and a practical, common sense approach to getting things done.
- High degree of organization and ability to manage multiple, competing priorities simultaneously.
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