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 Amazon.com, 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?
As a Commodity Manager, you will :
- Develop a commodity technology roadmap aligning business requirements with supplier capabilities
- Be responsible for AVL for commodity managing supplier selection, qualification and price negotiation - Manage all aspects of new supplier bring-up including database management in Agile or other ERP systems
- Ensure a competitive sourcing environment leading to continuous improvement in quality, cost, service and technology
- Work closely with Lead Commodity Manager to collaborate with Engineering to influence technical design decisions to meet expectations, technical capabilities, and business objectives
- Interface with Planning and Program Management to assess current and future sourcing requirements
- Help drive quarterly executive business reviews of strategic sourcing plan that defines, among other things, market and business analysis, product roadmaps, supplier capabilities and annual / quarterly strategic business objectives
- Maintain expertise / knowledge of market trends including rigorous analysis of market drivers, cost structures, technical improvements and competitive landscape
- Travel periodically to supplier’s manufacturing sites
- Support our OEM supplier initiatives including annual cost reductions, VMI / JIT, lead-time reductions, favorable payment terms, etc.
A day in the life
Senior Global Commodity Manager (GCM) is a subject-matter-expert for Semiconductor components. They manage technical and commercial sourcing strategy of Semiconductor components for multiple programs from pre-concept stages to EVT / DVT in collaboration with architecture, engineering, NPI operations, legal and suppliers and handoff to sustaining GCM.
In a typical day, a GCM performs a mix of tactical and strategic activities like deep diving to solve complex engineering and supply chain issues and manage supply base for best technology, quality, responsiveness, delivery and cost.
About the team
We are a customer-focused, fast-paced, and collaborative team. Our goal is to provide technical sourcing of Semiconductor components and supply chain solutions that deliver a disruptive value and an exceptional customer experience that make it easy for customers to purchase and use our devices.
We expect our GCMs to be technical and commercial sourcing leaders and assume a fair balance of autonomy and guidance. We strongly believe in diversity and it has been instrumental to our success.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations :
Sunnyvale, CA, USA
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ years of developing, negotiating and executing business agreements experience
- Experience developing strategies that influence leadership decisions at the organizational level
- 5+ years of professional or military experience
- Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules
- Bachelor's degree
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience interpreting data and making business recommendations
- Experience identifying, negotiating, and executing complex legal agreements