Technical Sourcing Program Manager, Annapurna Supply Chain

$133,200 - $220,200/Yr

Amazon - Austin, TX

Full-time - Mid Level

Austin, TX

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About the position

The AWS Infrastructure Services team is responsible for the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure, ensuring that the cloud remains operational and efficient. This role focuses on technology sourcing and procurement, requiring collaboration with various stakeholders to optimize operations and drive results in a global context. The ideal candidate will have a strong technical background and experience in supply chain management, with a focus on building resilient supply chains and executing strategic initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Understand key technology trends on board level components for NICs and ML accelerators, and engage with suppliers to drive product technology roadmaps and execute strategic quality/availability/cost improvement initiatives.
• Dive deep into the bill of materials (BOM) for various boards to analyze BOM health, and identify potential areas of opportunities.
• Analyze industry capacity for manufacturing critical technologies especially in the GenAI space to predict market constraints and plan sourcing strategies to secure continuity of supply and drive cost optimization.
• Build a comprehensive program management schedule and communicate it effectively across various stakeholders to hold them accountable to deliverables.
• Understand our forecasts and our forecasting mechanisms and develop a strategy with the GSMs to balance demand with manufacturing capacity during NPI and into ramp.
• Develop and execute component vendor strategies in support of business requirements for AWS Server hardware.
• Partner with GCMs to close complex negotiations including commercial terms, statements of work, SLAs, capacity, supply & pricing.
• Implement vendor performance controls and periodic executive level reviews to ensure sustained operational excellence.

Requirements

• 5+ years of developing, negotiating and executing business agreements experience
• 5+ years of professional or military experience
• Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules
• Experience developing strategies that influence leadership decisions at the organizational level
• Bachelor's degree

Nice-to-haves

• Experience interpreting data and making business recommendations
• Experience identifying, negotiating, and executing complex legal agreements

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Equity and sign-on payments
• Comprehensive medical benefits
• Financial benefits
• Flexible working culture
• Employee-led affinity groups
• Ongoing learning experiences and mentorship programs