Data Center Construction Procurement Program Manager, Data Center Sourcing & Procurement
Amazon
DESCRIPTION
Join our dynamic team and play a critical role in shaping the future of technology procurement across complex construction supply chains.
This role will support in the development of world class procurement processes, tooling, and data reporting that supports the construction procurement activities that help deliver new AWS data centers.
We are seeking an analytical, technically proficient, innovative, hands-on, and customer-focused Program Manager to join our dynamic, fast-paced team. The ideal candidate excels in a high-speed environment, enjoys working with large amounts of data, welcomes the challenge of highly complex and often ambiguous business contexts, and is passionate about data, analytics, and process. This role will play a critical part in helping our customers, partners, and our own team achieve challenging objectives by providing focused and actionable insights.
By leveraging your analytical skills and strategic thinking, you'll create transformative approaches that reduce costs, mitigate risks, and enhance supplier performance across our expansive infrastructure network.
We are a collaborative and forward-thinking group dedicated to building the technological infrastructure that powers global cloud computing. Our team values creativity, continuous learning, and a passion for solving complex challenges that shape the future of technology.
Key job responsibilities
- Create robust metrics and accountability mechanisms for internal process excellence and external supplier performance
- Collaborate with internal stakeholders to align procurement approaches with business objectives
- Deliver reporting and tooling that enhances procurement decision making efficiency and effectiveness
- Inspect the procurement processes within the team to identify, document, and standardize around best practices
- Engage with technical experts and key stakeholders to initiate new programs, including developing new processes and program documentation.
- Identify process and communications gaps, while developing and driving solutions.
- Develop and maintain lessons learned and establish mechanisms to share this with teams.
- Work closely with stakeholders on key program initiatives to develop and implement procedures and systems that continually improve and streamline the program.
- Drive simplification and automation to evolve processes, services, and solutions, to increase agility and efficiencies and lower costs.
- Establish a metrics-driven, programmatic approach to strategic initiatives to develop improvements and efficiencies.
- Gather, define, refine, and drive requirements for program process, standards, and system Implementation requirements needed to monitor & report on construction programs across multiple geographic regions with little or no direction from management.
- Define & evaluate KPIs derived from program milestone, estimate, spend forecast, and cost/resource loaded schedule performance.
A day in the life
Your day will be filled with dynamic challenges that blend strategic planning, collaborative problem-solving, and data-driven decision-making. You'll engage with cross-functional teams, analyze market trends, and develop processes and deliver tools and mechanisms that drive operational excellence. Each day you will interact with different teams responsible for all aspects of the data centers.
About the team
AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. In other words, we’re the people who keep the cloud running. We support all AWS data centers and all of the servers, storage, networking, power, and cooling equipment that ensure our customers have continual access to the innovation they rely on. We work on the most challenging problems, with thousands of variables impacting the supply chain — and we’re looking for talented people who want to help.
You’ll join a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, operations managers, and other vital roles. You’ll collaborate with people across AWS to help us deliver the highest standards for safety and security while providing seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost for our customers. And you’ll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.
About AWS
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AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.
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Work/Life Balance
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