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Supply Chain - Purchase and Fulfilment Specialist II, ISCAP - Var

Amazon Data Services, Inc.
Seattle, Washington, USA
$71.5K a year
Full-time

AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. In other words, we’re the people who keep the cloud running.

We support all AWS data centers and all of the servers, storage, networking, power, and cooling equipment that ensure our customers have continual access to the innovation they rely on.

We work on the most challenging problems, with thousands of variables impacting the supply chain and we’re looking for talented people who want to help.

You’ll join a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, operations managers, and other vital roles.

You’ll collaborate with people across AWS to help us deliver the highest standards for safety and security while providing seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost for our customers.

And you’ll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides a highly reliable, scalable, and low-cost cloud platform that powers thousands of businesses in over 190 countries.

AWS’ Infrastructure Supply Chain & Procurement (ISCaP) organization works to deliver cutting-edge solutions to source, build and maintain our socially responsible data center supply chains.

We are a team of highly-motivated, engaged, and responsive professionals who enable the core sustainable infrastructure of AWS.

Come join our team and be a part of history as we deliver results for the largest cloud services company on Earth!

Key leadership traits required include the ability to influence and form strong partnerships with vendors, internal business stakeholders and operational excellence in managing multiple complex and competing priorities simultaneously.

A candidate who possess a strong sense of ownership over work and results.

If you love solving problems, being at the forefront developing and executing processes in a highly ambiguous environment, identifying gaps and working to fix the gaps which can be measured using metrics / SLAs, then this is the spot for you.

This is a high impact role offering an opportunity to drive end to end Ordering and Fulfillment processes and influence business-critical decisions impacting the supply and availability at the Data Centers.

Responsibilities Include :

We are seeking a Supply Chain Manager I to join the AWS Infra Spares Planning team. This role will be focused on Order, Fulfillment Management and Supply Chain Analysis and Projects in support of Data Center Operation and Regional Planning teams.

This role will ensure correct PO placement and fulfillment of the parts which will enable reporting on overall spend and trends for Spares Program.

Key job responsibilities

Diverse Experiences

AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply.

If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

Why AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Diverse Experiences

Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply.

If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

Work / Life Balance

We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture.

When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.

Inclusive Team Culture

Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences.

Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Mentorship and Career Growth

We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

  • Flexible to accommodate working across different time zones, since it’s a global team
  • Develop efficient and accurate processes / metrics for monitoring inflow of spares to achieve on-time-delivery SLAs with vendors.
  • Having advanced MS Excel, MS-office and basic SQL is a must requirement. Ability to manage huge data sets and able to massage the data, create VLOOKUP and Pivots.
  • Engage with internal stakeholders, vendors to lead and drive end to end procurement and fulfillment of spares process
  • Demonstrate analytical, financial and quantitative skills and ability to use hard data and metrics to back up assumptions and develop business cases and perform ad hoc reporting and analysis as needed and quickly understand root cause, and identify scalable solutions
  • Strong influencing skills and ability to think strategically and execute methodically
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced environment where ambiguity exists and continuous innovation is desired
  • Committed to learning and expanding professional and technical knowledge
  • Willingness to roll up your sleeves and do whatever is necessary to deliver capacity to Data Centers
  • Strong track record of creative problem solving using lean principles, and the desire to create and build new processes.

Why AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Diverse Experiences

Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply.

If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

Work / Life Balance

We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture.

When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.

Inclusive Team Culture

Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences.

Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Mentorship and Career Growth

We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

  • 4+ years of supply chain experience in Procurement, Ordering and Fulfillment
  • 3+ years of working cross functionally across several team’s experience
  • 4+ years of using Microsoft Excel to manipulate and analyze large sets of data experience and arrive at conclusions
  • 2+ year of experience in basic SQL skills
  • Ability to work independently in different time zones, strong attention to detail and a passion for driving process improvement
  • Excellent business judgment, strong written and oral communication skills, and a practical, common sense approach to getting things done
  • Bachelor's in Engineering, Business, Supply Chain Management, or other related disciplines, or 4+ additional years of related experience in supply chain management, procurement, fulfillment, in lieu of a degree

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

  • Ability to operate tactically in a high-energy, fast paced environment
  • High degree of organization and ability to manage multiple, competing priorities simultaneously.
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced environment where continuous innovation is desired
  • 30+ days ago
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