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MGR III, Supply Chain, Ops Tech Solutions, Supply Chain
- london, england, E1W, United Kingdom
- Permanent·On-site
- Full time
Job Description
This role oversees critical supplier portfolios, manages hardware testing, deployment, and new device launches across Amazon Fulfillment IT, while leading a team of supply chain professionals. The manager will:
- Build and develop a high-performing team through coaching, mentoring, and career development, ensuring alignment with Amazon's leadership principles and organizational goals.
- Lead supplier relationship management, including performance monitoring, capability development, capacity planning, and risk mitigation.
- Develop product roadmaps and lifecycle plans in collaboration with IT hardware engineering, technical operations, and product management teams.
- Create efficient forecasting and capacity planning mechanisms for new and existing products.
- Drive team accountability for maintaining supplier scorecards, conducting quarterly business reviews, and addressing supply issues.
- Oversee manufacturer and supplier reviews to ensure costs align with business objectives and meet cost avoidance goals.
- Guide team in defining and delivering global solutions that improve supply chain speed and scalability.
The role will be based in London with 20% of time traveling mainly around Europe.
Key job responsibilities
- Establish and develop the new Supplier Performance Management team.
- Create strategies to effectively execute the responsibilities of the team, including management of product quality, supply risk, delivery performance, supplier data management, and supplier compliance.
- Develop tools and mechanism to collect, measure, and report out on supplier metrics.
- Further develop the current supplier scorecard mechanism to provide objective feedback to critical suppliers on strengths and improvement opportunities.
- Engage with other leaders to improve Supply Chain processes related to supplier performance issues.
- Engage with Suppliers in a hands-on approach to support every day, operational requirements related to delivery performance, quality issues, and compliance gaps.
- Manage day to day escalations and prioritization of at-risk product orders.
- Keep abreast of changing business requirements and market conditions that could impact supplier performance.
- Perform spend analysis based on a variety of relevant information, prepare financial models, identify opportunities, and present business case and recommendations to internal business partners.
- Support the strategic goals of the business partners; act as a ‘consultant’ to help achieve those objectives. Be recognized by business partners for supporting their strategy and driving value.
- Experience in supply chain
- Experience using data and metrics to determine and drive improvements
- Experience owning program strategy, end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership
- Bachelor's degree
- Master's degree, or MBA in business, operations, human resources, adult education, organizational development, instructional design or related field
- Build and develop a high-performing team through coaching, mentoring, and career development, ensuring alignment with Amazon's leadership principles and organizational goals.
- Lead supplier relationship management, including performance monitoring, capability development, capacity planning, and risk mitigation.
- Develop product roadmaps and lifecycle plans in collaboration with IT hardware engineering, technical operations, and product management teams.
- Create efficient forecasting and capacity planning mechanisms for new and existing products.
- Drive team accountability for maintaining supplier scorecards, conducting quarterly business reviews, and addressing supply issues.
- Oversee manufacturer and supplier reviews to ensure costs align with business objectives and meet cost avoidance goals.
- Guide team in defining and delivering global solutions that improve supply chain speed and scalability.
The role will be based in London with 20% of time traveling mainly around Europe.
Key job responsibilities
- Establish and develop the new Supplier Performance Management team.
- Create strategies to effectively execute the responsibilities of the team, including management of product quality, supply risk, delivery performance, supplier data management, and supplier compliance.
- Develop tools and mechanism to collect, measure, and report out on supplier metrics.
- Further develop the current supplier scorecard mechanism to provide objective feedback to critical suppliers on strengths and improvement opportunities.
- Engage with other leaders to improve Supply Chain processes related to supplier performance issues.
- Engage with Suppliers in a hands-on approach to support every day, operational requirements related to delivery performance, quality issues, and compliance gaps.
- Manage day to day escalations and prioritization of at-risk product orders.
- Keep abreast of changing business requirements and market conditions that could impact supplier performance.
- Perform spend analysis based on a variety of relevant information, prepare financial models, identify opportunities, and present business case and recommendations to internal business partners.
- Support the strategic goals of the business partners; act as a ‘consultant’ to help achieve those objectives. Be recognized by business partners for supporting their strategy and driving value.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience in program or project management- Experience in supply chain
- Experience using data and metrics to determine and drive improvements
- Experience owning program strategy, end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership
- Bachelor's degree
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience leading process improvements- Master's degree, or MBA in business, operations, human resources, adult education, organizational development, instructional design or related field