Planning Manager, Planning
Job Description
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?Key job responsibilitiesThe Supply Planning Manager is responsible for all internal and external activities related to supply planning from production forecasts to finished good delivery. To succeed in this role, you need to be data driven, business oriented, cost conscious, and customer-centric. In this role, you will:- Create and maintain a production schedule using the capacity plan, material constraints, and demand as inputs.- Analyze demand changes to ensure supply aligns with demand requirements.- Drive solutions to reduce and eliminate any short or long term gaps in supply plans.- Lead and facilitate meetings with global manufacturing partners, as required, to reduce and eliminate shortages.- Clearly communicate our manufacturing partner's current production status to senior/executive stakeholders.- Develop production strategies for new production introductions (NPI) through end of life (EOL) that balances supply and demand.- Responsible for short/long-term planning to drive manufacturing investment decisions.- Clearly communicate supply and demand strategies to senior/executive stakeholders.- Monitor and report supply chain costs.- Be responsible for supply planning reporting generation and distribution.- Identify opportunities to improve the planning process and drive projects to completion.- This role may require some travel.A day in the lifeSupply Planning Managers are responsible for production planning and order fulfillment for Amazon Devices. Supply Planning Managers are connected in the planning process throughout a product’s entire lifecycle, from New Product Introduction (NPI) to End of Manufacturing (EOM).A typical week starts by understanding week-over- week demand changes and how that impacts the business’s ability to balance supply to demand. You will analyze planned versus actual production as inputs change and will communicate supply and operations constraints to cross-functional stakeholders and executives. You will anticipate stocking levels based on demand strategies, create and implement risk mitigation strategies to eliminate supply chain disruptions and drive decisions based on costs using data and inputs from cross-functional teams.Your weekly planning deliverables will drive capacity decisions and component purchases upstream to suppliers and set the production strategy with Amazon’s electronic manufacturing suppliers.About the teamAmazon Devices Global Supply Planning (GSP) team’s mission is to deliver excellent service to our customers, inspire change through flawless execution, value trust, equity, and recognition of our colleagues, and focus on delivering high impact improvements to processes, capabilities, and efficiency to fuel the Amazon Flywheel.You will be a central part of the Supply Planning team that plans how Amazon Devices are made and delivered to customer hands.
Locations
- United States, CA, Sunnyvale, Sunnyvale, CA, United States
Salary
Salary not disclosed
Estimated Salary Rangehigh confidence
140,000 - 200,000 USD / yearly
Source: ai estimated
* This is an estimated range based on market data and may vary based on experience and qualifications.
Skills Required
- - 5+ years of procurement, supply chain, inventory management, contract management, lease administration or operations experienceintermediate
- - 5+ years of relevant strategic sourcing including vendor negotiations, global contract management, process improvement, operational and financial analysis experienceintermediate
- - Experience in procurement, supply chain, inventory management, contract management, lease administration or operationsintermediate
- - Experience in strategic sourcing including vendor negotiations, global contract management, process improvement, operational and financial analysisintermediate
- - Experience with data analysis tools such as Advanced Excel, SQL, Tableau, Pythonintermediate
- - Experience in global supply chain management, managing cross-functional teams in a fast-paced consumer electronics product companyintermediate
Required Qualifications
- - 5+ years of procurement, supply chain, inventory management, contract management, lease administration or operations experience (experience, 5 years)
- - 5+ years of relevant strategic sourcing including vendor negotiations, global contract management, process improvement, operational and financial analysis experience (experience, 5 years)
- - Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Business, Engineering, Finance, or a related technical field (degree in supply chain)
- - Experience in procurement, supply chain, inventory management, contract management, lease administration or operations (experience)
- - Experience in strategic sourcing including vendor negotiations, global contract management, process improvement, operational and financial analysis (experience)
- - Experience with data analysis tools such as Advanced Excel, SQL, Tableau, Python (experience)
- - Experience in global supply chain management, managing cross-functional teams in a fast-paced consumer electronics product company (experience)
Preferred Qualifications
- - 4+ years of program, project, product management, or leading a product implementation process experience (experience, 4 years)
- - Master's degree in Business Administration, Finance, Economics, Computer Science, or a related field (degree in business administration)
- - Experience in program, project, product management, or leading a product implementation process (experience)
- - Experience in data centers, infrastructure service providers, or related technology companies (experience)
- Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. (experience)
- Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $71,500/year in our lowest geographic market up to $153,000/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site. (experience)
Responsibilities
- The Supply Planning Manager is responsible for all internal and external activities related to supply planning from production forecasts to finished good delivery. To succeed in this role, you need to be data driven, business oriented, cost conscious, and customer-centric. In this role, you will:
- - Create and maintain a production schedule using the capacity plan, material constraints, and demand as inputs.
- - Analyze demand changes to ensure supply aligns with demand requirements.
- - Drive solutions to reduce and eliminate any short or long term gaps in supply plans.
- - Lead and facilitate meetings with global manufacturing partners, as required, to reduce and eliminate shortages.
- - Clearly communicate our manufacturing partner's current production status to senior/executive stakeholders.
- - Develop production strategies for new production introductions (NPI) through end of life (EOL) that balances supply and demand.
- - Responsible for short/long-term planning to drive manufacturing investment decisions.
- - Clearly communicate supply and demand strategies to senior/executive stakeholders.
- - Monitor and report supply chain costs.
- - Be responsible for supply planning reporting generation and distribution.
- - Identify opportunities to improve the planning process and drive projects to completion.
- - This role may require some travel.
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https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/3116100