Project Kuiper is Amazon’s low Earth orbit satellite broadband network. Its mission is to deliver fast, reliable internet to customers and communities around the world, and we’ve designed the system with the capacity, flexibility, and performance to serve a wide range of customers, from individual households to schools, hospitals, businesses, government agencies, and other organizations operating in locations without reliable connectivity.
Export Control Requirement: Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.
The Kuiper Electronic Supply Chain team is seeking a Senior Manager to lead our Semiconductor Sourcing team. The successful candidate will solve for the long-term needs of the supply base while remaining deeply engaged in the management of daily product delivery.
Key job responsibilities
• Develop and manage a team of Supply Chain professionals, supporting global operations
• Manage the business relationships with stakeholders and customers spanning resolution of operational issues to escalation of commercial and contractual negotiations
• Develop a commodity technology roadmap aligning business requirements with supplier capabilities; build a supplier base that can scale with Kuiper
• Provide Subject Matter Expertise (SME) on the negotiation of a variety of agreements and contracts including term sheets, MOUs, NDAs, SOWs, development agreements, component purchase agreements and others
• Influence suppliers' manufacturing processes, technology decisions, and policies in ways that are mutually beneficial and sustainable for both organizations
• Ensure a competitive sourcing environment leading to continuous improvement in quality, cost, service and technology
• Deliver hardware from requirements to delivery in full on time
• Interface with senior leaders to ensure alignment on current and future sourcing requirements
• Champion quarterly and annual executive business reviews covering strategic sourcing plan that define product roadmaps, supplier capabilities and annual / quarterly strategic business objectives
• Create new and manage existing supplier partnerships to drive improvements to supplier performance, capabilities, cost effectiveness, reliability and compliance.
• Apply personal knowledge to industry trends and evolving technology to proactively identify projects/opportunities to reduce cost, minimize risk, protect continuity of supply, and exploit industry developments that benefit Amazon’s customers
• Travel to supplier’s manufacturing sites
