Planning Manager, Device Operations Planning and Execution - Zapopan | Amazon Job

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 various devices like Fire tablets, Fire TV, and Amazon Echo. What will you help us create?

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.

This role may require some travel.

Key job responsibilities
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.

A day in the life
Supply 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 team
The Device Operations Planning and Execution team sits within Amazon Lab126, supporting the full lifecycle of Amazon's consumer electronics portfolio. Our team drives production planning, supply chain coordination, and order fulfillment across a global network of manufacturing partners. We work cross-functionally with engineering, demand planning, and finance to ensure the right products reach customers on time. We value data-driven decision making, operational excellence, and a bias for action. If you enjoy solving complex supply chain challenges in a fast-paced, collaborative environment, this team is for you.

Basic Qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Business, Engineering, Finance, or a related technical field
- 5+ years of procurement, supply chain, inventory management, contract management, lease administration or operations experience
- Knowledge of supply chain management concepts - forecasting, planning, sourcing, optimization and logistics or equivalent
- Experience with data analysis tools such as Advanced Excel, SQL, Tableau, Python

Preferred Qualifications:

- Master's degree in Business Administration, Finance, Economics, Computer Science, or a related field
- Experience in program, project, product management, or leading a product implementation process
- Experience in data centers, infrastructure service providers, or related technology companies

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