Sr. Materials Manager, Power & Cooling (PAC)

Sr. Materials Manager, Power & Cooling (PAC)

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.

The Power & Cooling (PAC) team is seeking a results-oriented individual with strong business judgment skills and experience working with internal and external stakeholders to own material planning for Data Center Power & Cooling Equipment. Our Material Planning Managers are high-energy self-starters that are excited to work across different functions to deliver power and cooling equipment to our data centers globally.

As a member of the Power and Cooling Supply Chain Management Team, this role's primary responsibility is to maintain unconstrained supply for the responsible regions and work with our internal customers and business partners to audit and track inventory status and materials from Design to Delivery. You will be the single-threaded leader and first line of escalation for any post-delivery construction and commissioning issues.

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 projects through completion.

Key job responsibilities

• The Materials Planning Manager is a single threaded leader who serves as the orchestrator of long-lead equipment (LLE) planning and delivery execution for AWS data centers. This role drives forecast accuracy, milestone tracking, and risk management to ensure timely data center delivery.
• Demand Planning and Forecasting: You will spearhead the development and maintenance of a rolling three-year forecast for LLE, collaborating with business partners to capture evolving requirements. This includes managing schedule changes, tracking design modifications, and validating net new demand to maintain forecast accuracy. Your role requires coordinating with design teams to ensure equipment specifications align with construction timelines and maintaining a change management process that achieves first-time-right implementations.
• Milestone Management and Progress Tracking: As the single-threaded owner of milestone tracking, you will monitor the critical path from forecast creation through design, funding, delivery, and commissioning. This comprehensive tracking system enables proactive identification of potential delays, with a goal of maintaining 100% milestone achievement rate. You will exercise high judgment in determining when to escalate risks and which mitigation strategies to pursue, ensuring that potential delays are identified and addressed before impacting construction schedules.
• Risk Management and Prioritization: Your role focuses on tracking supplier delivery commitments against construction need-by dates, serving as an early warning system for potential schedule impacts. While Global Supply Chain Managers handle supplier negotiations, you will partner with them to highlight risks and support mitigation strategies. As the key liaison to the business, you will drive build prioritization decisions, maintaining a dynamic risk register that drives predicting and preventing delivery delays.
• Post-Delivery Support and Issue Resolution: You will serve as the primary escalation point for post-delivery challenges at construction sites, including quality concerns and resource constraints. This responsibility requires building trusted relationships with suppliers and supply managers. When needed, you will lead war room sessions to resolve critical issues, targeting prompt resolution of issues. Success in this role directly impacts AWS's ability to deliver data centers on schedule, with performance measured by achievement of construction timelines and successful equipment installation. The position requires maintaining forecast accuracy, milestone tracking, and risk mitigation rather than supplier negotiations and capacity management.

A day in the life

• Communicate ideas concisely to a wide variety of stakeholders for purposes ranging from informative to need for approvals from executives.
• Embody a true pioneering spirit, willing to “get your hands dirty” in a start-up environment while simultaneously developing processes, automation, and delivering results.
• Clearly define data requirements and metrics, working with teams to implement the entire data flow from capture to presentation and management.
• High attention to detail and proven ability to manage multiple, competing priorities simultaneously.
• Keen on developing and training people to improve skills and capabilities for sustainable and continuous improvement.

About The Team

Why AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Diverse Experiences

Amazon 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.

Work/Life Balance

We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.

Inclusive Team Culture

Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Mentorship and Career Growth

We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Basic Qualifications

• 2+ years of program, project or product management, or leading product implementation experience
• 6+ years of related industry experience
• 5+ years of data analysis using tools such as Excel, Pivot Tables, SQL, Tableau, or equivalent experience
• 8+ years of high volume manufacturing operations or sourcing environments experience
• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Business, Engineering, or a related field
• Experience in high-volume manufacturing operations or sourcing environments
• Experience with Continuous Improvement and Six Sigma methodologies
• 5+ years of commissioning experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in Business Administration, Finance, Economics, Computer Science, or a related field
• Experience in data centers, infrastructure service providers, or related technology companies
• Experience in negotiations with global suppliers with a proven track record in cost reduction
• Experience in procurement practices working with engineering, supply chain and Tier 1 OEM partners
• Experience practicing best-in-class procurement processes (category management, benchmarking, should-cost models, RFX, reverse auction, contracting, or equivalent)

Key skills/competency

• Supply Chain Management
• Materials Planning
• Demand Forecasting
• Risk Management
• Project Management
• Data Analysis
• Process Improvement
• Stakeholder Management
• Continuous Improvement
• Six Sigma