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 (AIS) 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!

We are seeking a category sourcing manager to help us fuel AWS’ explosive growth. You will be responsible for the strategic sourcing of the hardware powering AWS; this includes collaborating with stakeholders to define requirements and selecting a supplier to enable design and delivery of the product to our global data centers.
This team is a great fit for you if
• You enjoy creating and implementing category sourcing strategies
• You like to negotiate complex agreements, pricing, and terms
• You appreciate collaborating and cultivating relationships with stakeholders
• You value the development and maintaining a diverse, competitive supply base and enabling supplier performance
• You are interested in identifying, bench-marking, and realizing savings opportunities



Key job responsibilities
- Contract negotiations and commercial management of contract manufacturers.
- Strong understanding of accounting practices and partnering with finance to conduct weekly, monthly and quarterly reconciliation of budgets. Partner with operations to identify and help drive new product roadmaps and execute strategic quality/availability/cost improvement initiatives.Analyze industry trends to develop and execute sourcing strategies that are in the best interest of our customers.
- Driving monthly and quarterly reviews with your manufacturer to drive the best performance on cost, quality, and delivery
- Successfully negotiate and close complex, multi-million dollar contract negotiations and sourcing agreements
- Analyze data and implement vendor performance controls to ensure operational and cost excellence.
- Influence designs for manufacturing, quality and cost optimization. Build a supplier base and business processes which scale with the business. Drive change through excellent verbal and written communication with data driven inputs using lean methodologies that remove waste.
- Author white paper narratives to drive sourcing strategies and update leadership on supplier performance.
• Create mechanisms to ensure details of the business are understood, managed, and improved upon.


A day in the life
Own the sourcing, commercial negotiations, budgeting, cost, and business relationship of your contract manufacturer. Is a critical part of the contract manufacturing process and responsible for formulating, communicating, and executing a sourcing strategy relative to their respective contract manufacturer. Partners with business leaders to grow the business by creating new partnerships, leveraging existing relationships, and/or licensing assets to drive product improvements and innovation, enable distribution of our applications, products and/or services, and reduce costs without sacrificing the customer experience.

About the team
Success in the role will be measured by the Sr. HW Commodity Specialist's ability to deliver cost effective business solutions, close AWS beneficial business agreements, and measure/improve supplier performance all while driving a continuous improvement strategy to simplify and shorten the life cycle of each of these tasks. This role will report directly into ISCaP’s Head of Commercial Management Team. There will be some travel required in this role including both domestic and a small number of international trips as needed.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Bellevue, WA, USA