Amazon Lab126 is an inventive research and development company that designs and engineers high-profile consumer electronics. Lab126 began in 2004 as a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc., originally creating the best-selling Kindle family of products. Since then, we have produced groundbreaking devices like Fire tablets, Fire TV, and Amazon Echo. What will you help us create?


The Role:
As a Global Commodity Manager, your responsibilities will include:

- Develop a commodity technology roadmap aligning business requirements with supplier capabilities
- Responsible for AVL for commodity managing supplier selection, qualification and price negotiation
- Manage all aspects of new supplier bring-up including database management in Agile or other ERP systems
- Ensure a competitive sourcing environment leading to continuous improvement in quality, cost, service and technology
- Work closely with Lead Commodity Manager to collaborate with engineering to influence technical design decisions to meet expectations, technical capabilities, and business objectives
- Interface with planning and program management to assess current and future sourcing requirements
- Help drive quarterly executive business reviews of strategic sourcing plan that defines (among other things) market and business analysis, product roadmaps, supplier
- Capabilities and annual/quarterly strategic business objectives
- Maintain expertise/knowledge of market trends including rigorous analysis of market drivers, cost structures, technical improvements and competitive landscape
- Periodic travel to supplier’s manufacturing sites
- Support our OEM supplier initiatives including annual cost reductions, VMI/JIT, lead-time reductions, favorable payment terms, etc.