Software Development Manager Purchase Order Forecasting

Purchase Order Forecasting at Amazon is seeking a passionate experienced Software Development Manager to lead a newlyformed team developing stateoftheart forecasting models that provide vendors with advanced visibility of Amazons orders. These forecasts enable effective collaboration with vendors to reduce overall supply chain costs and acquire the right items at the right time and the right price to delight our customers. In this role you will partner closely with research scientists product managers other engineering teams and business stakeholders to experiment with novel ways of predicting Amazons upcoming orders and scale these solutions to cover the millions of items sold by Amazon. If you are excited by the challenges of building largescale innovative supply chain solutions for some of the most complex problems in the industry this may be a good fit for you.

Our team is part of the Supply Chain Optimization Technologies (SCOT) organization. SCOT owns Amazons global inventory sourcing & planning systems. We decide what when where how much and from whom we should buy to meet the diverse needs of our global customer base. We do this for millions of items for hundreds of product lines worth billions of dollars of inventory worldwide. Our systems are built entirely inhouse and feature the latest innovations in automated large scale supply chain sourcing planning and optimization systems.

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Key job responsibilities
As a Software Development Manager in the Purchase Order forecasting team you will be responsible for leading and mentoring a team of software engineers focused on building the next generation of order forecasting solutions. You will work closely with research scientists and product teams to develop innovative prediction models while driving the technical strategy and roadmap for purchase order forecasting systems. An important aspect of your role will be ensuring operational excellence and reliability of missioncritical forecasting infrastructure. You will partner with business stakeholders and senior leaders to understand requirements and deliver effective solutions while fostering a culture of innovation ownership and technical excellence within your team.

A day in the life
Heres what you could be doing on a daily basis:

Thinking big and working with leadership cross teams and business stakeholders to define strategy and roadmap.
Facilitating the design and architecture of the distributed and highly scalable services needed to solve supply chain problems in this space
Delivering on the product roadmap while managing the full software development lifecycle of the services.
Coaching mentoring and developing some of the smartest engineers in the world.
Owning the inputs and the business outcome through cultivating a culture of relentless auditing and metric monitoring automatically where possible.

About the team
This position is in Amazons Purchase Order (PO) Forecasting team where were revolutionizing supply chain management by building sophisticated systems that bridge the gap between Amazons procurement needs and our vendors supply capabilities. Our team develops intelligent forecasting solutions that provide vendors with insights into Amazons future purchasing patterns across national and global scales. In this team you will work on innovative predictive models and stateoftheart systems that ingest and process vast amounts of data to generate accurate purchase order forecasts build flexible platforms for customized vendor and retail user experiences and help shape the future of collaborative planning with vendors through twoway communication tools.

3 years of engineering team management experience
7 years of working directly within engineering teams experience
3 years of designing or architecting (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/networks development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing certification and livesite operations
Experience partnering with product or program management teams
Experience in recruiting hiring mentoring/coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills and make them more effective product software engineers

Experience in communicating with users other technical teams and senior leadership to collect requirements describe software product features technical designs and product strategy
Experience delivering products against plan in a fastpaced multidisciplined distributedresponsibility and often ambiguous environment

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $166400/year in our lowest geographic market up to $287700/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on jobrelated knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity signon payments and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package in addition to a full range of medical financial and/or other benefits. For more information please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.