Senior Materials Planner, Fauna

Fauna Robotics is seeking a Senior Materials Planner / Buyer to own material planning and purchasing execution across production contract manufacturing and new product introduction. This is a hands-on role responsible for building the material plan placing and managing purchase orders driving shortages to closure and establishing the planning mechanisms required to support increasing production volume and complexity.

Key job responsibilities
- Own end-to-end material readiness across production builds NPI and contract manufacturing.
- Translate production schedules BOMs inventory open POs lead times and supplier capacity into time-phased material requirements.
- Own material planning and purchasing execution with the contract manufacturer including demand alignment supplier commits shortages inventory visibility and build readiness.
- Create and manage purchase orders through supplier confirmation delivery receipt and issue resolution.
- Identify and resolve shortages late deliveries excess inventory and supply-demand imbalances before they affect production.
- Maintain an accurate view of build readiness by reconciling BOMs inventory open orders engineering changes and physical material.
- Coordinate suppliers Fauna facilities contract manufacturers and internal teams on material flow revision cut-ins allocation and recovery plans.
- Establish and improve planning mechanisms including shortage reviews supplier commit cadence safety stock lead-time assumptions and inventory controls.
- Develop medium- and long-range material requirements to support production growth supplier capacity planning and cash forecasting.

About the team
Fauna Robotics an Amazon company is building capable safe and genuinely delightful robots for everyday life. Our goal is simple: make robots people actually want to live and interact with in everyday human spaces.
We believe that future wont arrive until building for robotics becomes far more accessible. Today too much effort is spent reinventing the fundamentals. Were changing that by developing tightly integrated hardware and software systems that make it faster safer and more intuitive to create real-world robotic products.
Our work spans the full stack: mechanical design control systems dynamic modeling and intelligent software. The focus is not just functionality but experience. Were building robots that feel responsive expressive and genuinely useful.
At Fauna youll work at the frontier of this space helping define how robots move manipulate and interact with people in natural environments. Its an opportunity to solve hard problems across hardware and software with a team focused on making robotics accessible and joyful to build.
If you care about making robotics real for everyone and building systems that are as delightful as they are capable were interested in hearing from you.

- Bachelors degree or MBA in supply chain management operations engineering analytics or related field
- 7 years of experience in materials planning purchasing production planning supply chain or a related manufacturing role.
- Experience directly owning both material planning and PO execution for complex hardware products.
- Experience planning against multi-level BOMs production schedules inventory supplier lead times and capacity constraints.
- Demonstrated experience driving shortages and supplier recovery plans to closure.
- Strong analytical skills advanced Excel capability and the ability to reconcile incomplete or conflicting data.

- Experience with robotics electronics electromechanical products or other complex hardware.
- Experience working with contract manufacturers and globally distributed suppliers.
- Experience with ERP MRP inventory procurement and PLM systems.
- Experience supporting engineering changes revision transitions and NPI.
- Experience building and scaling material-planning and purchasing processes in a rapidly growing manufacturing organization.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at NY New York - 133300.00 - 185000.00 USD annually