Materials Program Manager, Sustaining- Global Operations

Amazon Lab126 is an inventive research and development company that designs and engineers high-profile consumer electronics. Lab126 began in 2004 as a subsidiary of Inc. originally creating the best-selling Kindle family of products. Since then we have produced innovative devices like Fire tablets Fire TV and Amazon Echo. What will you help us create

The Materials Program Manager (MPM) is responsible for the management and delivery of the product financial health for innovative highly integrated consumer products. This person has a business orientation and is responsible for working within the local and remote operations engineering and software teams driving development implementation and management of the product budget. This person is the business voice responsible for capturing documenting and communicating financial exposures and outlay as it relates to their product. They are involved throughout all stages of the product familys lifecycle to ensure Lab126 achieve all financial targets through end-of-life. They will support weekly executive product line reviews outlining performance against budget target and actual cost.
Key job responsibilities
In this role you will:

Work with engineering and the supply chain team to set program cost targets at a commodity level for your project
Track the program actual costs versus target to identify program deltas and corrective actions to bring back on track
Attend program new product introduction meetings to understand the cost implication of engineering and/or process changes as related to you product fully loaded cost targets
Work with the OEM to set your product purchase order cost for the upcoming period
Manage purchase price variance claims resulting from engineering changes component obsolescence or forecast variance
Drive the supply chain and operations team to provide detailed cost reduction forecast that enable you to meet and exceed your product goals
Work with the Lab126 Management team to ensure predictable accurate forecasts for your products
Host weekly executive management cost reviews that deep dive through every aspect of your product cost

Basic qualifications

3 years of technical infrastructure management experience
Experience with varying scenarios of infrastructure builds
Bachelors degree in a technical discipline
2 years experience in the business procurement organization of a consumer market segment company
Experience in procurement practices working with engineering supply chain and Tier 1 OEM partners

Preferred qualifications

Experience with vendor negotiations pricing and promotion or inventory management
Masters degree preferred
Working knowledge of mobile technologies products and tools preferable
Excellent analytical and communication skills
Ability to prioritize tasks and maximize internal resources
Experience leading and defining requirements and driving these across diverse organizations

- 3 years of business development partnership management or sourcing new business experience
- 3 years of working with Core Cloud Technology Services including but not limited to Compute Edge Hybrid Security and/or Networking experience
- 3 years of working with Business Application Technologies including but not limited to End User Compute (EUC) Supply Chain Contact Center as a Service Consumer Data Applications Encrypted Communications and/or Communication Developer Services experience
- 3 years of solving problems with technology in the Healthcare/Life Sciences Industry experience
- 3 years of solving problems with technology in the Media & Entertainment Industry experience
- 3 years of solving problems with technology in the Global Financial Services Industry experience
- 3 years of solving problems with technology in the Telecommunications industry experience
- 3 years of solving problems with technology in the Automotive & Manufacturing industries experience
- 3 years of solving problems with technology in the Energy & Utilities industries experience
- 3 years of Go-To-Market Business Development Sales or Consulting experience
- 3 years of working with Advanced Compute technologies including but not limited to: Accelerated Compute High Performance Compute Visual/Spatial Compute and/or IoT. experience
- 3 years of working with Enterprise Application Modernization and Migration technologies including but not limited to Mainframe Serverless Containers or Cloud Operations experience
- 3 years of working with Data & AI related technologies including but not limited to AI/ML GenAI Analytics Database and/or Storage experience
- Bachelors degree or equivalent
- Experience using data and metrics to determine and drive improvements
- Experience within advertising technology related sales

- Experience in online advertising or high-tech products/services
- Experience scaling a publisher monetization product or service

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