Sr. Manager, Supply Chain Category Sourcing, Project Kuiper

Project Kuiper is Amazons low Earth orbit satellite broadband network. Its mission is to deliver fast reliable internet to customers and communities around the world and weve designed the system with the capacity flexibility and performance to serve a wide range of customers from individual households to schools hospitals businesses government agencies and other 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 Senior Manager of Category Sourcing will build out capability and capacity for satellite hardware commodities supporting Kuipers satellite products. This role will work closely with Business Engineering Production Ops and other key stakeholders in selecting developing and managing business relationships with critical material technology and services suppliers as well scale internal process capability appropriately. The ideal candidate will demonstrate a successful track record leading and managing a team developing and strategy negotiating agreements and statements of work managing supplier performance and ensuring ontime delivery of large significant complex high quality cost effective custom products for Kuiper satellites. Experience working in new and ambiguous environments while solving challenging and complex problems with a broad range of cross functional stakeholders will be an advantage.

Key job responsibilities
Manage a team of category sourcing managers to support global contract manufactures.
Manage the business relationships with stakeholders and customers spanning resolution of operational issues to escalation of commercial and contractual negotiations
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 to secure supply arrangements
Influence suppliers manufacturing 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 supply
Manage crossfunctional projects against plans and objectives to meet commitments and goals
Drive financial modeling of large and complex deals
Evaluate and monitor financial health of critical suppliers
Effectively lead crossfunctional meetings with clear document writing agenda creation note capture and followup activity coordination


A day in the life
This role will partner with the Electrical Engineering team Hardware engineering teams and Production Operations teams to establish and supply chain strategies that both 1) meet the short and longterm technical and business objectives of each team and 2) meet longterm cost production scaling and risk management requirements to achieve Kuipers customer and financial targets.

About the team
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At Amazon our mission is to be the most customercentric company on Earth. To get there we need exceptionally talented bright and driven people. Were dedicated to supporting new team members. Our team has a broad mix of experience levels and Amazon tenures and were building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship.


Bachelors Degree in Math Engineering Science Supply Chain or Business
10 years of experience in strategic sourcing or supply chain management
5 years of experience developing and executing sourcing strategies including supplier negotiation purchasing agreements or development agreements
5 years of experience developing and negotiating business deals associated with highspecification manufacturing or technology
Export Control Requirements: 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.

MBA plus a degree in mechanical/aerospace engineering or a scientific field
10 years of experience developing and executing sourcing strategies in a multibillion dollar of supply agreement in semiconductor products
10 years of experience managing semiconductor front end foundries and OSAT global supply base with end to end supply chain experience.
Experience hiring and managing a team
Exceptional interpersonal and communication (both written and verbal) skills


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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $174300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $288200/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.