Planning Manager, Planning

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 groundbreaking devices like Fire tablets Fire TV and Amazon Echo. What will you help us create

Key job responsibilities
The Supply Planning Manager is responsible for all internal and external activities related to supply planning from production forecasts to finished good delivery. To succeed in this role you need to be data driven business oriented cost conscious and this role you will:

- Create and maintain a production schedule using the capacity plan material constraints and demand as inputs.
- Analyze demand changes to ensure supply aligns with demand requirements.
- Drive solutions to reduce and eliminate any short or long term gaps in supply plans.
- Lead and facilitate meetings with global manufacturing partners as required to reduce and eliminate shortages.
- Clearly communicate our manufacturing partners current production status to senior/executive stakeholders.
- Develop production strategies for new production introductions (NPI) through end of life (EOL) that balances supply and demand.
- Responsible for short/long-term planning to drive manufacturing investment decisions.
- Clearly communicate supply and demand strategies to senior/executive stakeholders.
- Monitor and report supply chain costs.
- Be responsible for supply planning reporting generation and distribution.
- Identify opportunities to improve the planning process and drive projects to completion.
- This role may require some travel.

A day in the life
Supply Planning Managers are responsible for production planning and order fulfillment for Amazon Devices. Supply Planning Managers are connected in the planning process throughout a products entire lifecycle from New Product Introduction (NPI) to End of Manufacturing (EOM).

A typical week starts by understanding week-over- week demand changes and how that impacts the businesss ability to balance supply to demand. You will analyze planned versus actual production as inputs change and will communicate supply and operations constraints to cross-functional stakeholders and executives. You will anticipate stocking levels based on demand strategies create and implement risk mitigation strategies to eliminate supply chain disruptions and drive decisions based on costs using data and inputs from cross-functional teams.

Your weekly planning deliverables will drive capacity decisions and component purchases upstream to suppliers and set the production strategy with Amazons electronic manufacturing suppliers.

About the team
Amazon Devices Global Supply Planning (GSP) teams mission is to deliver excellent service to our customers inspire change through flawless execution value trust equity and recognition of our colleagues and focus on delivering high impact improvements to processes capabilities and efficiency to fuel the Amazon Flywheel.

You will be a central part of the Supply Planning team that plans how Amazon Devices are made and delivered to customer hands.

- 5 years of procurement supply chain inventory management contract management lease administration or operations experience
- 5 years of relevant strategic sourcing including vendor negotiations global contract management process improvement operational and financial analysis experience
- Bachelors degree in Supply Chain Business Engineering Finance or a related technical field
- Experience in procurement supply chain inventory management contract management lease administration or operations
- Experience in strategic sourcing including vendor negotiations global contract management process improvement operational and financial analysis
- Experience with data analysis tools such as Advanced Excel SQL Tableau Python
- Experience in global supply chain management managing cross-functional teams in a fast-paced consumer electronics product company

- 4 years of program project product management or leading a product implementation process experience
- Masters degree in Business Administration Finance Economics Computer Science or a related field
- Experience in program project product management or leading a product implementation process
- Experience in data centers infrastructure service providers or related technology companies

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees supervisors and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees supervisors and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal state and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies exercise sound judgment effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $71500/year in our lowest geographic market up to $153000/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.