Global Category Manager, Amazon Leo

Amazon Leo is Amazon's low Earth orbit satellite network. Our mission is to deliver fast, reliable internet connectivity to customers beyond the reach of existing networks. From individual households to schools, hospitals, businesses, and government agencies, Amazon Leo will serve people and organizations operating in locations without reliable connectivity.

Export Control Requirement: Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.

The Amazon Leo Electronic Supply Chain team is seeking an experienced Global Category Manager for EE Components, Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs), Flexible Printed Circuit boards (FPCs) and Flexible Printed Circuit Board Assemblies (FPCAs), with a background in global supplier management, new supplier introduction, supplier development, negotiating, contract development, and executing sourcing decisions to support new product introduction and long-term commodity strategy. The ideal candidate for this position will be self-managed and driven sourcing strategist, mapping and aligning design and technology roadmaps, experience in creating sourcing strategies, and business acumen to support engineering teams to develop latest technologies through strong supplier base, without capacity constrain, while achieving cost reduction goals.

Key job responsibilities

The ideal candidate will have a successful track record sourcing EE component, PCBs, FPCAs and familiar with PCB raw materials, semiconductors and Contract Manufacturers, developing and executing strategy, negotiating master agreements and statements of work, and managing supplier performance. The Global Category Manager has an important role in ensuring their respective commodities and suppliers meet the technical and commercial specifications necessary for Amazon Leo to satisfy its internal Manufacturing Operations, Supplier Quality, Supply Chain, and Hardware Engineering customers.

This candidate will work collaboratively with multiple business functions in a team environment and will be responsible for the following:

• Managing overall supplier relationships including supplier performance, capability, capacity planning, contracting, risk mitigation, and cost and quality improvements
• Collaborating with technical operations, engineering, and program teams on new product introduction programs to define standard and custom product requirements to ensure that sourcing strategies meet the technical capabilities, cost, and business objectives
• Developing efficient and accurate mechanisms for communicating forecast and capacity requirements for sustaining and new products.
• Work with a range of stakeholders including business leaders, engineering leaders, legal, program management, and supply chain to negotiate a variety of agreements and contracts including term sheets, MOUs, NDAs, SOWs, development agreements, component purchase agreements and others
• Analyze industry trends and evolving technology to proactively identify opportunities to reduce costs, minimize risk, protect continuity of supply, and industry developments that benefit Amazon's customers
• Influence suppliers" processes, technology decisions, and policies in ways that are mutually beneficial and sustainable for both organizations
• Prioritize projects and activities to deliver maximum cost reductions and reliable on-time delivery
• Drive supplier selection, on-boarding, qualification and development of Approved Manufacturers' List
• Evaluate and monitor critical supplier performance, including financial health, quality, on-time delivery, and cost
• Supporting the purchasing and planning teams by monitoring supplier performance and addressing supply and/or quality issues.
• Aligning supplier strategies to Amazon Leo objectives for sustaining production and new product release
• Developing a commodity and supplier technology roadmap, aligning business requirements with supplier capabilities
• Responsible for maintaining supplier scorecards and conducting executive business reviews
• Periodic travel to supplier's domestic and international manufacturing sites, approximately 15%

About the team

Here at Amazon, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. Amazon has ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and host annual and ongoing learning experiences. Amazon's culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 16 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.

Mentorship & Career Growth

Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we're building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded professional and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.

Innovation is part of our DNA! Our goal is to be Earth"s most customer-centric company, and we are just getting started. We need people who want to join an ambitious program that continues to push the state of the art in space based systems design and wireless systems.