New Product Lead - Amazon Robotics Supply Chain
No salary listed
Mid
Bachelor's, Master's
Luxembourg+1 moreMore locations: Hamme, Belgium
In PersonInternational travel across Europe is around 20–25% of the time.
Operations & LogisticsSupply Chain Management
About the job
Requirements
- Experience developing, negotiating, and executing business agreements.
- A Bachelor's degree, with a degree in management, business administration, economics, engineering, or marketing also listed.
- Experience developing strategies that influence leadership decisions at the organizational level.
- Experience managing technical programs across cross-functional teams, building processes, and coordinating release schedules.
- Experience leading complex, multi-year initiatives that may be cross-functional and/or span business and technology.
- Experience in supply chain, commodity, and supplier management in a high-volume, global sourcing and operations manufacturing environment with a global supply base of contract manufacturers.
- Experience in program management, technical program management, or related fields.
Responsibilities
- Lead the Product Development Process with a cross-functional supply chain team dedicated to supplier and supply chain design, sourcing, logistics decisions, and supply chain execution for robotics products from concept through development to scaled deployment.
- Act as the single point of contact for program resources, communicating supply chain decisions and progress, providing feedback on supply chain implications of program decisions and changes, and supporting financial planning and capital approvals.
- Work with Robotics leadership to ensure partnership between Robotics Supply Chain, hardware engineering, operations, and program teams on commodity and supplier selection, cost-performance tradeoff analysis, cost roadmap development and execution, rapid product development stages, and a path to scaled deployment.
- Define and obtain approval for product-level Supply Chain Strategy documents, including critical components and suppliers, product cost roadmaps to meet payback targets, capacity plans and associated sourcing and tooling requirements, and supply chain risk assessment and mitigation plans.
- Work with sourcing to develop negotiation strategies for product-impacting categories and deliver business objectives and sustainable relationships with strategic suppliers supporting priority programs driven by the Operating Plan.
- Work with GCMs to manage supplier relationships, including supplier performance, capability development, capacity planning, contracting, risk mitigation, and cost and quality improvements.
- Develop a roadmap to achieve total cost targets, including make-versus-buy analysis and value engineering opportunities.
- Ensure non-cost goals for sustainability, supplier development, and cost savings are met and supported by the product-specific supply chain strategy.
- Travel internationally across Europe around 20–25% of the time.
- Orchestrate new product introduction across the supply chain, including leading Product Development Process gate reviews, aligning Design for Excellence requirements with engineering teams, and driving supply chain readiness for hardware programs.
- Coordinate with mechanical and electrical engineers, sourcing managers, manufacturing partners, and program managers; address supplier escalations, regionalization strategies, and supply chain risks involving critical-path components and production milestones.
Desired Qualifications
- A PMP certificate or a Master's degree in business, data science, public administration, finance, engineering, human resources, or a related field.
- Experience interpreting data and making business recommendations across leadership and cross-functional teams.
- Experience identifying, negotiating, and executing complex legal agreements.
- Experience communicating in writing and verbally, including presenting complex technical information clearly and concisely to executives and non-technical leaders.
- Experience leading global teams.
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, Washington
Founded
1994
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