Sr Hardware Delivery Manager, 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 Kuiper team is looking for a Hardware Delivery leader to support business and engineering stakeholders in driving performance and delivery assurance with critical technology and service suppliers and others as needed to execute on Kuiper objectives. The ideal candidate will have a successful track record managing tight dead-lines finding ways to expedite material reporting delivery KPIs ensuring vendor performance influencing new systems adoption (e.g. E2Open) and driving root-cause analysis.

Experience working in new and ambiguous environments while knowing how to prioritize a broad range of cross functional stakeholders needs will be an advantage.

Key job responsibilities
- Work with a range of stakeholders including business leaders engineering leaders program management and supply chain to ensure material arrives on-time for program builds.
- Ensure vendor delivery performance on committed deliveries and agreed lead-times.
- Expedite material as needed by the business.
- Communicate delivery KPIs to drive supplier business reviews and enforce contractual obligations.
- Develop root-cause analysis and corrective actions when delivery performance is not meeting expectation.
- Support root-cause analysis corrective actions and development of processes to resolve internal challenges causing needs to expedite or vendors to push-out commit dates.
- Support identification of supply risks and bottlenecks impacting deliveries at vendors and communicate them to Global Category Managers.

Up to 50% travel required.

A day in the life
This is a fast-paced intellectually challenging position and will work with leaders and suppliers in multiple technology areas. Have relentlessly high standards for yourself and everyone you work with and be constantly looking for ways to improve your supply chain performance quality and information flow. We want individuals who are ready for this challenge and want to reach beyond what is possible today.

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 40000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings and host annual and ongoing learning experiences. Amazons 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.

At Amazon our mission is to be the most customer-centric 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

- 5 years of program or project management experience
- 5 years of supply chain experience
- Experience using data and metrics to determine and drive improvements
- Experience owning program strategy end to end delivery and communicating results to senior leadership

- 2 years of driving process improvements experience
- Masters degree or MBA in business operations human resources adult education organizational development instructional design or related field

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $103900/year in our lowest geographic market up to $181400/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity sign-on 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.