Materials Program Manager, Echo NPI Product Operations

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 innovative 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 Materials Program Manager (MPM) is responsible for the management and delivery of the product financial health and supply chain for innovative, 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. This person is also responsible for ensuring a healthy supply chain for the 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.


Key job responsibilities
As a Materials Program Manager, you will:

- Work with engineering and the supply chain team to set program cost targets 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
- Own the Supplier Plan of Record (SPOR) and ensure that all program suppliers are competitive on cost, quality and delivery
- Provide oversight of C-suppliers on the CM AVL

About the team
The Product Operations team provide a central point of contact into the broader Devices and Services (D&S) organization. Serving as the single threaded leader (STL), we align strategy, planning, and execution to bring the Amazon Devices innovative product vision to life.

The MPM is specifically the STL for product cost and program SPOR (Supplier Plan of Record). There are two other functions within Product Operations. OPM (Operations Program Manager) who coordinates within all of Operations to deliver the committed quantity of launch units. And MM (Materials Manager) who is responsible for CTB (Clear to Build) during NPI builds.

As a program manager within Amazon, the MPM engages with and drives cross-functionally across Amazon's complex device ecosystem. The MPM's closest cross-functional partners are Hardware Engineering, Product Management (PM), Finance, GCM (Global Commodities Management), SQM (Supplier Quality Management), and MPE (Manufacturing Product Engineering).