Sr. Mgr, MPM Amazon Jobs – Sunnyvale, California

DESCRIPTION

The Sr Mgr, Sustaining MPM manage the program after the transition from the NPI Product Operations team. The sustaining team typically begins to engage around the DVT phase and provide onsite support at PVT builds. MPMs manage the programs after they transition to sustaining ensuring that there are no blockers to impede production while meeting our quality, delivery, and cost objectives. When an issue arises that impacts our ability in meeting our objectives, MPMs are at the center of the issue working with the cross functional team to resolve the problems.

A day in the life
MPMs work closely with GCMs (Global Commodity Managers) to constantly look for cost reduction opportunities. Efforts include focus on PRQ (Post Ramp Qualification) activity and negotiating directly with ODMs for “C” components. MPMs are the owner of the system level costs and ensure accurate costs are provided to Finance on a monthly basis for purchase orders and financial reports. MPMs and OPMs are also now integrated into the supply chain claims process with Finance and OEM Business Managers. In addition the sustaining team also provide inputs into OP1 and OP2 and drive cost improvement initiatives for programs.

About the hiring group

The team manages and sustaining products for Fire TV, Health and Wellness, Advance Products, and Systems and tools. We are a high performance team always looking for new initiatives to raise the bar. We also work extremely well together and support each other as needed.

Job responsibilities
Amazon Lab126 is an inventive research and development company that designs and engineers high-profile consumer electronics. Lab126 began in 2004 as a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc., originally creating the best-selling Kindle family of products. Since then, we have produced groundbreaking devices like Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo and Amazon Show. The Amazon Devices group delivers delightfully unique Amazon experiences, giving customers instant access to everything, digital or physical.

The Role:
The Sr. Mgr., Materials Program Manager is responsible for the management and delivery of the product financial health for groundbreaking, highly integrated consumer products. This person has a business orientation and is responsible for working within the local and remote operations, engineering and software teams driving development, implementation and management of the product budget. This person is the business voice responsible for capturing, documenting and communicating financial exposures and outlay as it relates to their product. They are involved throughout all stages of the product family’s lifecycle to ensure Lab126 achieve all financial targets through end-of-life. They will support weekly executive product line reviews outlining performance against budget, target and actual cost. In this role, you will:
· Work with engineering and the supply chain team to set program cost targets at a commodity level for your project
· Track the program actual costs versus target to identify program deltas and corrective actions to bring back on track
· Attend program new product introduction meetings to understand the cost implication of engineering and/or process changes as related to you product fully loaded cost targets
· Work with the OEM to set your product purchase order cost for the upcoming period
· Manage purchase price variance claims 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 product goals
· Work with the Lab126 Management team to ensure predictable, accurate forecasts for your products
· Host weekly executive management cost reviews that deep dive through every aspect of your product cost