Principal – Supply Chain
$143.7k - $193.2k
Senior
Bachelor's, Master's
Austin, TX, USA
In PersonDomestic and international travel required up to 20% of the time.
Operations & LogisticsInventory Management, Procurement & Sourcing
Company Historically Provides H1B Sponsorship
About the job
Requirements
- A Master's degree or foreign equivalent degree in Engineering, Business Administration, Supply Chain, or a related discipline and 2 years of experience in the job offered or a related occupation; alternatively, a Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent degree in those fields followed by 5 years of progressively responsible post-baccalaureate experience in project or program management.
- At least 2 years of experience analyzing the cost/benefit of projects.
- At least 2 years of experience in procurement or purchasing.
- At least 2 years of experience in advanced data analysis and the ability to extract and synthesize data.
- At least 2 years of experience leading and supporting across geographies.
Responsibilities
- Manage strategic programs that span Amazon's entire supply chain.
- Partner with operations field leaders to identify the impact of new business initiatives on operations and integrate and deploy them onsite.
- Conduct strategic, quantitative, and deep-dive data and information analytics to lead the development, execution, implementation, and support of innovative programs, processes, roadmaps, frameworks, and objectives that expand global infrastructure operations, procurement controls, and inventory management systems.
- Lead the development of comprehensive sourcing strategy and standardize the end-to-end Request for Proposal to Purchase Order process, cost inputs, and final selection.
- Coordinate across organizations to identify the current state and paths toward the desired end state, and develop actionable plans.
- Provide sourcing governance by developing guidelines, policies, procedures, and training to ensure end-user adherence to tool workflows and information integrity.
- Analyze and assess tools data and information integrity, investigate root causes, and develop action plans to cleanse current information, address workflow gaps, and leverage data into actionable information and metrics.
- Provide governance and leadership in developing consistent definitions and metrics to create actionable, information-rich metrics packages and dashboards.
- Work with local teams and business partners to create and execute action plans to improve sourcing strategies and spares inventory utilization efficiency.
- Provide sourcing business decision support and participate in or lead special projects.
- Develop strategic relationships across the company to ensure optimal use of resources.
- Create, automate, or improve tools and processes that support better management of vendors and associated spend.
- Work with colleagues to report vendor metrics and identify and develop additional or improved metrics to assess and measure vendor performance and effectiveness.
- Partner with operations and key internal stakeholders to support new business initiatives.
- Guide procurement activities and improve the supply chain using the latest internal and external information.
- Present detailed, data-driven business reviews to senior management focused on measuring impact and performance to create improved supply chains.
- Travel domestically and internationally up to 20% of the time.
About the company
Amazon runs the largest online store in the United States and rents cloud computing to businesses and governments through Amazon Web Services. AWS pioneered renting computing power over the internet, and Amazon built its own delivery network to get orders to customers quickly. Shoppers buy from Amazon and from independent sellers on its store, and Prime members pay a subscription for fast free shipping, streaming video and music, and other perks. AWS rents out computing power, storage, databases, and AI tools so companies can run software without owning servers, and Amazon also makes Kindle e-readers and Echo speakers with the Alexa assistant. Jeff Bezos founded Amazon in 1994, and it is based in Seattle, Washington.
Company Size
10,001+
Company Stage
IPO
Headquarters
Seattle, WA
Founded
1994
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What believers are saying
- AI drives growth: AWS's AI and custom-chip sales each more than doubled, passing $25 billion a year by June 2026.
- Stock grants gained value: shares hit a record in August 2026, making Amazon the fifth company to reach $3 trillion.
- Ads are a third engine beside stores and AWS: they grew 26% to $19.8 billion in the June 2026 quarter.
What critics are saying
- AWS's lead is shrinking: in the June 2026 quarter, Google Cloud grew 82% and Microsoft's Azure 43%, versus AWS's 37%.
- Job security has slipped: Amazon cut 30,000 corporate jobs in October 2025 and January 2026 to reduce management layers.
- Expect five office days a week: Amazon ended its three-day hybrid policy for corporate staff in January 2025.
What makes Amazon unique
- Most of Amazon's profit comes from cloud: AWS made 21% of sales but 60% of operating profit in mid-2026.
- Amazon is America's biggest parcel carrier by volume: it handled 6.9 billion packages in 2025, more than the Postal Service.
- Writing matters more than slides: Amazon meetings open with silent reading of a six-page memo instead of PowerPoint.
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Benefits
- Flexible Work Hours
- Company Equity