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 Senior Manager of Category Sourcing will build out capability and capacity for satellite hardware commodities supporting Kuiper’s satellite products. This role will work closely with Business, Engineering, Production Ops and other key stakeholders in selecting, developing and managing business relationships with critical material, technology and services suppliers as well scale internal process capability appropriately. The ideal candidate will demonstrate a successful track record leading and managing a team, developing and strategy, negotiating agreements and statements of work, managing supplier performance, and ensuring on-time delivery of large, significant, complex, high quality, cost effective custom products for Kuiper satellites. Experience working in new and ambiguous environments while solving challenging and complex problems with a broad range of cross functional stakeholders will be an advantage.

Key job responsibilities
• Manage a team of category sourcing managers to support global contract manufactures.
• Manage the business relationships with stakeholders and customers spanning resolution of operational issues to escalation of commercial and contractual negotiations
• Work with a range of stakeholders including business leaders, engineering leaders, legal, program management, and supply chain to negotiate a variety of agreements and contracts to secure supply arrangements
• Influence suppliers' manufacturing processes, technology decisions, and policies in ways that are mutually beneficial and sustainable for both organizations
• Prioritize projects and activities to deliver maximum cost reductions and reliable supply
• Manage cross-functional projects against plans and objectives to meet commitments and goals
• Drive financial modeling of large and complex deals
• Evaluate and monitor financial health of critical suppliers
• Effectively lead cross-functional meetings with clear document writing, agenda creation, note capture and follow-up activity coordination


A day in the life
This role will partner with the Electrical Engineering team, Hardware engineering teams and Production Operations teams to establish and supply chain strategies that both 1) meet the short- and long-term technical and business objectives of each team and 2) meet long-term cost, production scaling and risk management requirements to achieve Kuiper’s customer and financial targets.

About the team
Here at Amazon, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. Amazon has ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and host annual and ongoing learning experiences. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 16 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.

At Amazon, our mission is to be the most customer-centric company on Earth. To get there, we need exceptionally talented, bright and driven people. We're dedicated to supporting new team members. Our team has a broad mix of experience levels and Amazon tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship.