Sr Hardware Commodity Specialist, Physical Stores Hardware

The Team: Just Walk Out is a new kind of store with no lines and no checkout. You simply use the app to enter the store, take what you want from our selection of fresh, delicious meals and grocery essentials, and go. Our checkout-free shopping experience is made possible by our Just Walk Out Technology. It automatically detects when products are taken from or returned to the shelves and keeps track of them in a virtual cart. When you're done shopping, you just leave the store. Shortly after, we'll charge your Amazon account and send you a receipt. Designed and custom-built by Amazonians, our technology uses computer vision, sensor fusion, and advanced machine learning. Innovation is part of our DNA. We're looking for people who want to join an ambitious team that continues to push the state of the art in computer vision, machine learning, distributed systems and hardware design.
The Role: The Senior Materials Program Manager (MPM) is responsible for the management and delivery of the program's financial and cost models for custom design, groundbreaking devices. (BOM+MVA, tooling and NRE) This person has a business orientation and is responsible for working within the local and remote operations, engineering teams driving development, implementation and management of the program budget and schedule. This person is the business voice responsible for capturing, documenting and communicating financial exposures and outlay as it relates to their product. This person also is the primary business owner for the major supplier relationships for key modules and final assembly for new custom devices. They are involved throughout all stages of the product family's lifecycle to ensure the business achieves all financial and schedule milestone targets through end-of-life. They will support weekly executive product line reviews outlining performance against budget, target and actual cost, and schedule.
In this role, you will:
- Work with engineering and the supply chain team to set program cost and schedule targets at a commodity level for your project.
- Ensure timely procurement and delivery of components to support NPI and production builds.
- Work with diverse Amazon groups to coordinate activities and mitigate issues a minimum amount of escalations to executives.
- Track the program actual costs and milestones versus target to identify program deltas and corrective actions to bring back on track.
- Attend and lead program new product introduction meetings to understand the cost implication of engineering and/or process changes as related to your product fully loaded cost targets.
- Work with 3rd Party suppliers to set your product purchase order cost for the upcoming period.
- Drive SOW (Statement of Work) and product/supplier contract negotiations.
- Manage purchase price variance claims and schedule delays resulting from engineering changes, component obsolescence or forecast variance.
- Drive the supply chain and operations team to provide detailed cost reduction forecast that enable you to meet and exceed your program goals.
- Work with the Management team to ensure predictable, accurate forecasts for your products.
- Host monthly cost reviews that deep dive through every aspect of your product cost.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Seattle, WA, USA