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Amazon Senior Global Commodity Manager - Data Center Batteries, AIS in Seattle, Washington
Description
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a highly effective candidate to identify, create, develop and integrate innovative technology to deliver the best operating, lowest cost infrastructure in the world.
This individual will lead the commercial and strategic sourcing aspects for BBUs to better meet our customers' rapidly growing infrastructure needs. Successful candidates will bring strong knowledge of battery and power component supply chains and proven ability to drive product roadmaps from concept through mass production.
AWS serves over a million active customers in more than 190 countries. We are steadily expanding global infrastructure to help our customers achieve lower latency and higher throughput. As our customers grow their businesses, AWS will continue to provide infrastructure that meets their global requirements.
Professional traits that are necessary for Amazon leaders:
• Exhibits excellent judgment
• Has high standards
• Is able to dive deep into details of the business
• Drives innovation within the team
• Strong result orientation
• Thinks big
Key job responsibilities
• Develop and execute long-term capacity planning with strategic OEM partners, including supplier share of wallet/mix strategy
• Lead supplier RFPs and drive cost optimization efforts across the supply chain
• Manage strategic inventory programs and inventory optimization initiatives
• Foster and maintain OEM joint partnerships and relationships to ensure strong strategic alignment
• Execute complex commercial agreements and manage new supplier onboarding processes
• Support NPI (New Product Introduction) during product qualification stages while maintaining global compliance and certifications
• Implement sustainability initiatives across the supply chain
• Present to senior leadership via written narrative
Basic Qualifications
Bachelor’s or an advanced degree in supply chain, business, engineering, finance or related technical or quantitative field
6+ years of strategic sourcing or procurement in BBUs (or other hardware), or 5+ with advanced degree
3+ years of experience with data analysis tools such as Excel, Pivot Tables, SQL, Tableau, etc..
Preferred Qualifications
10+ years of experience in strategic supplier management, technical business development
5 + experience in leading large scale commercial negotiation and strategy development, business development and/or product management experience
Technical knowledge and market expertise in energy storage
Advanced Engineering degree and/or MBA
Robust narrative writing skills
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