Technical Sourcing Program Manager, Annapurna Supply Chain

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.


If you are an experienced Operations/Sourcing/Technical sourcing professional with a passion for customers, and hungry for creating an impact at a Global scale, you might be a fit for the Amazon Web Services (AWS) procurement team. Come armed with your knowledge for a position where you will own, build, and run technology sourcing, and qualifications programs and engage with multiple stake holders to influence and drive plans to create a resilient supply chain. If you thrive optimizing operations and driving results and want to be accountable for a significant impact and a once-in-a-life time professional opportunity, we have an opportunity for you.

We are looking for a Supply chain expert with a technical background who can drive programs with engineering and with our suppliers to ensure we can scale our in-house products. To be successful in this role – you will need to be analytical, digging into data to understand the right course of action. In addition, we are looking for a strong leader who can drive the programs through various levels of the organization and excels at executive communication.

AWS is the world’s leading and most trusted provider of virtualized public cloud utility services. We offer our global IT customer base who span private, corporate and government sectors, over 100 fully featured, integrated services in Gen AI, compute, storage, database, analytics, mobile, Internet of Things (IOT) and enterprise applications. AWS operates a worldwide fleet of interconnected enterprise data centers at hyperscale to deliver the capacity that powers our customers IT infrastructure which enables their ability to concentrate on core competencies through agility and operational efficiency. To learn more about AWS, visit https://aws.amazon.com





Key job responsibilities
Key job responsibilities include:

- Understand key technology trends on board level components for NICs and ML accelerators, and engage with suppliers to drive product technology roadmaps and execute strategic quality/availability/cost improvement initiatives
- Dive deep into the bill of materials (BOM) for various boards to analyze BOM health, and identify potential areas of opportunities
- Analyze industry capacity for manufacturing critical technologies especially in the GenAI space to predict market constraints and plan sourcing strategies to secure continuity of supply and drive cost optimization.
- Build a comprehensive program management schedule and communicate it effectively across various stakeholders to hold them accountable to deliverables.
- Understand our forecasts and our forecasting mechanisms and develop a strategy with the GSMs to balance demand with manufacturing capacity during NPI and into ramp.
- Develop and execute component vendor strategies in support of business requirements for AWS Server hardware.
- Partner with GCMs to close complex negotiations including commercial terms, statements of work, SLAs, capacity, supply & pricing.
- Implement vendor performance controls and periodic executive level reviews to ensure sustained operational excellence.

About the team
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.

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.

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.

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.

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