Sr. Supply Chain Product Lifecycle Manager, Optical Modules

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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

Key job responsibilities
As a Sr. Tech Supply Chain PLM, this role acts as a critical liaison and program manager to align technical qualification activities with engineering and supply chain. This role manages optical modules as a portfolio, planning and executing their introduction, qualification, launch, and end of life activities. This role interacts with suppliers, engineering, and supply chain counterparts on a daily basis and leverages technical knowledge of hardware as well as supply chain acumen to help the business flow.

A day in the life
As a Sr. Supply Chain PLM, you will be part of a three-pillar category team (Sourcing, Supply Chain, PLM) that will own end-to-end management optical modules. You will participate in technical engineering reviews, collaborate on sourcing strategies, advise on supply chain objectives, drive qualifications across multiple engineering teams, coordinate with component and rack integrations suppliers and own program reporting to executive leaders. Your role is fundamental to optimal product management of cloud networking hardware. You will develop deep and practical knowledge of the hardware you manage as well as its application in the AWS network. In this role you will be looking at "what's next" on the technology roadmap so you can build a lifecycle strategy to support it.

About the team
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You will join a team of highly capable and driven sourcing and supply chain managers who have experience from inside and outside the tech/networking industry. We are continually diving deeper into the supply chain and product design with our engineering and ODM partners. Although we have a ways to go, we have a heavy focus on automation and tools creation. We encourage and empower our team members be "builders", just as much as we are sourcing, supply, and product lifecycle managers. This is a great place to apply and enhance your knowledge of technology, take ownership for your space, and grow into a future leader. - Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science or equivalent
- 7+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience
- 5+ years of technical product or program management experience
- Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules - 5+ years of project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management experience
- Experience defining KPI's/SLA's used to drive multi-million dollar businesses and reporting to senior leadership
- 2+ years of computer networking experience, or experience with network hardware: copper and optical fiber cabling, switches, routers
- Experience with Networking hardware technologies such as optical modules, routers, switches, etc

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USA, WA, Seattle - 148,700.00 - 201,200.00 USD annually