Sr. Manager Tech Sourcing, Infrastructure, Supply Chain and Procurement

AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. In other words, we’re the people who keep the cloud running. We support all AWS data centers and all of the servers, storage, networking, power, and cooling equipment that ensure our customers have continual access to the innovation they rely on. We work on the most challenging problems, with thousands of variables impacting the supply chain — and we’re looking for talented people who want to help.

You’ll join a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, operations managers, and other vital roles. You’ll collaborate with people across AWS to help us deliver the highest standards for safety and security while providing seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost for our customers. And you’ll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the leading cloud provider, providing virtualized infrastructure, storage, networking, messaging, and many other services to customers all over the world. AWS runs a globally distributed environment, operating at massive levels AWS’s multi-tenant infrastructure. Governmental organizations are also looking to and depending on AWS for cloud solutions and services. The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Infrastructure Supply Chain and Procurement team is responsible for the end-to-end supply chain delivery of capacity to AWS Data Centers.

Our AWS Infrastructure Supply Chain and Procurement team is looking for a results-oriented leader to manage and lead the team responsible for the operational support, performance management, supplier development, and lifecycle management of key AWS compute and networking self-build products. In this role you will lead internal engagements across Supply Chain, Engineering and Business organizations while diving deep into the technologies and operations both from a product and Supply Chain perspective. You will work closely with Strategic Sourcing, Product operations, Hardware engineering, Tooling Engineering, Manufacturing Design Engineering, DFx, Test Engineering and other cross-functional teams to develop. You will analyze trends involving the industry players – vendors, customers, and technology to develop strategies to secure supply, reduce cost, minimize risk, and utilize emerging opportunities, allowing AWS to meet and exceed its goals.

Main responsibilities

1. Own the supply chain and sourcing activities for AWS Silicon including negotiating commercial agreements, negotiating cost, optimizing the collaboration between the teams and developing long term strategy to grow a robust partnership.

2. Own Supply Chain and Operations Management activities with our Compute partners to include Order/Change Management, Supply Demand (Supplier commit), commit to plan analysis & reconciliation, business process operations/tools, logistics, Cost/Price Negotiation, Risk Management, Corporate Social Responsibility and Capacity Planning, and allocation to Servers Manufacturing partners.


3. Analyze the overall supply chain to identify risk and drive resolution to systemic issues affecting quality, cost, delivery or lead-times.

Manages the supplier relationship leading and coordinating efforts to drive supplier performance improvement across all areas of the business.

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Key job responsibilities
Own the supply chain and sourcing activities for AWS CPU, GPU and FPGAs including negotiating commercial agreements, negotiating cost, optimizing the collaboration between the teams and developing long term strategy to grow a robust partnership.

Manage the Commercial relationship with Intel, AMD, NVIDIA.

Work internally with EC2 product managers to understand customer requirements and ODM managers to make sure they get supply allocation to build the racks to be delivered to data center

About the team
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