Principal Supply Chain Manager Blink by Amazon
Principal Supply Chain Manager Blink by Amazon
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08-04-2025
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08-04-2025
Job Description
Lead Blinks negotiations with Contract Manufacturing partners for entire consumer product life cycles including new product introductions sustaining and product retirements. You will reduce costs ensure highest quality and deliver on time to our delighted customers.
Key job responsibilities
Amazon Blink Supply Chain and Operations is seeking a Principal Procurement and Strategy Manager to oversee Contract Manufacturing Partner Sourcing and Management activities. This role will focus on leading vendor negotiations developing consistent negotiation methodology and ensuring alignment with internal stakeholder teams and affiliated Amazon procurement teams. A successful candidate will deliver improved financial results delivery performance effectively utilize capacity and drive sustainability efforts. This individual must manage multiple vendors concurrently and directly working with a team that contributes significantly to overall operations and supply chain strategy and effectiveness. Internal and external relationship management is paramount along with strong analytical and problemsolving skills. In this role you are responsible for delivering successful negotiations at scale working with senior leadership of external vendors and providing thoughtleadership within procurement and several Amazon stakeholder teams. Ability to travel internationally expected at 15 per year.
A day in the life
Key job responsibilities
Negotiation: Delivering improved financial performance through large scale negotiations for contract manufacturing.
Leadership: Leading stakeholder and partner teams indirectly to build a track record of consistently delivering consumer products.
Strategy: Design and implement strategy for procurement projects and the overall procurement function to support all the goals of the business not just financial goals.
Bias for Action: Delivering endtoend New Product Introduction contract projects working through many obstacles and unexpected challenges along the way in order to maintain momentum.
Communication: Communicating product and process expectations and requirements with external and internal leadership teams writing wellreasoned and datadriven proposals performing data analysis as necessary.
Technical Problem Solving: Utilizing problemsolving skills to work through difficult challenges including the full procurement cycle from sourcing negotiations legal requirements and internal systems updates.
7 years of working cross functionally with tech and nontech teams experience
7 years of program or project management experience
7 years of managing analyzing and communicating results to senior leadership experience
7 years of working cross functionally across several teams experience
10 years of supply chain experience
Bachelors degree
Experience implementing repeatable processes and driving automation or standardization
Experience defining program requirements and using data and metrics to determine improvements
Experience delivering projects within scope time budget and quality
Ten years managing consumer electronics manufacturing at scale of $100 million
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race national origin gender gender identity sexual orientation protected veteran status disability age or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process including support for the interview or onboarding process please visit for more information. If the country/region youre applying in isnt listed please contact your Recruiting Partner.
Key job responsibilities
Amazon Blink Supply Chain and Operations is seeking a Principal Procurement and Strategy Manager to oversee Contract Manufacturing Partner Sourcing and Management activities. This role will focus on leading vendor negotiations developing consistent negotiation methodology and ensuring alignment with internal stakeholder teams and affiliated Amazon procurement teams. A successful candidate will deliver improved financial results delivery performance effectively utilize capacity and drive sustainability efforts. This individual must manage multiple vendors concurrently and directly working with a team that contributes significantly to overall operations and supply chain strategy and effectiveness. Internal and external relationship management is paramount along with strong analytical and problemsolving skills. In this role you are responsible for delivering successful negotiations at scale working with senior leadership of external vendors and providing thoughtleadership within procurement and several Amazon stakeholder teams. Ability to travel internationally expected at 15 per year.
A day in the life
Key job responsibilities
Negotiation: Delivering improved financial performance through large scale negotiations for contract manufacturing.
Leadership: Leading stakeholder and partner teams indirectly to build a track record of consistently delivering consumer products.
Strategy: Design and implement strategy for procurement projects and the overall procurement function to support all the goals of the business not just financial goals.
Bias for Action: Delivering endtoend New Product Introduction contract projects working through many obstacles and unexpected challenges along the way in order to maintain momentum.
Communication: Communicating product and process expectations and requirements with external and internal leadership teams writing wellreasoned and datadriven proposals performing data analysis as necessary.
Technical Problem Solving: Utilizing problemsolving skills to work through difficult challenges including the full procurement cycle from sourcing negotiations legal requirements and internal systems updates.
7 years of working cross functionally with tech and nontech teams experience
7 years of program or project management experience
7 years of managing analyzing and communicating results to senior leadership experience
7 years of working cross functionally across several teams experience
10 years of supply chain experience
Bachelors degree
Experience implementing repeatable processes and driving automation or standardization
Experience defining program requirements and using data and metrics to determine improvements
Experience delivering projects within scope time budget and quality
Ten years managing consumer electronics manufacturing at scale of $100 million
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race national origin gender gender identity sexual orientation protected veteran status disability age or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process including support for the interview or onboarding process please visit for more information. If the country/region youre applying in isnt listed please contact your Recruiting Partner.
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