Sr. Supply Chain Product Lifecycle Manager, Optical Modules

Sr. Supply Chain Product Lifecycle Manager

AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. 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.

The Networking team is looking for a results-oriented Sr. Supply Chain Product Lifecycle Manager to own Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) activities for Optical Modules. The Sr. Supply Chain PLM will drive hardware qualification activities with engineering counterparts, develop technical product roadmaps, conduct NUDD reviews, own category SKU optimization, manage sustaining BOM configurations and lifecycle status changes, coordinate and execute last time buy and EOL plans, and partner with Sourcing, Supply Chain and engineering counterparts to ensure continuity of supply through effective lifecycle management of our portfolio of optical modules.

General Work

Activities:

• Create and execute end-to-end product lifecycle plan for optical modules in collaboration for Sourcing, Supply Chain and Engineering counterparts
• Develop and collaborate on product roadmap with engineering and sourcing counterparts
• Drive qualification of second source or new revision hardware with network hardware engineering counterparts as well as networking deployment teams
• Drive product portfolio qualification strategy and mitigate risks to meeting qualification timeline
• Conduct New Unique Difficult Different (NUDD) review of second source components
• Align new hardware feature requirements from internal network engineering teams and hardware development engineering teams
• Rationalize SKU portfolio to avoid redundant SKUs while ensuring optimal multi-source coverage
• Align SKU portfolio strategy with supply chain and engineering counterparts
• Manage BOM configurations and lifecycle status changes
• Align on ramp plan with engineering and supply chain for new products
• Create and align end of life and last time buy plans for SKUs that are phasing out
• Develop subject matter expertise in the category of networking hardware you manage to advise engineering, sourcing and supply chain counterparts on optimal lifecycle strategies
• Influence business partners, suppliers, and executive leaders to achieve product lifecycle management goals

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