Head of Component Sourcing Engineering
Amazon Web Services Taiwan LtdTaibeiUpdate time: August 11,2019
Job Description
  • Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Mechanical, Industrial Engineering or Business Administration/Supply Chain Operations
  • If Technical Education, demonstrated commercial business acumen through work experience and accomplishment.
  • If Business Education, demonstrated technical acumen through work experience and accomplishment.
  • 12+ years of relevant work experience in Procurement, Supply Chain, Component Engineering, &/or Manufacturing Operations holding leadership positions of progressive increased scope and responsibility.
  • 10+ years or relevant work of strategic sourcing in high tech electronics / computing / communications fields.
  • 7+ years of experience in people management including direct report supervision, hiring, performance appraisal, promotion and termination.
  • Experience managing external vendor C-level relationships with multi-million spend accounts
  • Strong negotiation skills with demonstrated experience negotiating complex contractual agreement/terms including IP rights and/or equity provisions.
  • High attention to detail and proven ability to manage multiple, competing priorities simultaneously.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills including ability to communicate complex ideas, proposals and plans clearly, succinctly and persuasively to VP level audience.
  • Strong analytical skills with excellent business judgement.
  • Strong Inquisitive trait demonstrated through inspection practices and discovery techniques.
  • Organized and disciplined in sound business methods, proficient in application of tool-based performance metrics vs. goals.

If you are an experienced technology sourcing professional with a passion for customers and hungry for driving change and impact at a Global scale you might be a fit for the Amazon Web Services (AWS) procurement team. Come armed with your knowledge for a position where you will own, build, and run technology sourcing and operations and engage with multiple stake holders to drive plans and execution to satisfy the demanding needs of a high growth industry impacting markets worldwide. If you thrive optimizing operations and driving results and want to be accountable for a significant impact and a once-in-a-life time professional opportunity, we have an opportunity for you.

AWS is the world’s leading and most trusted provider of virtualized public cloud utility services. We offer our global IT customer base who span private, corporate and government sectors, over 100 fully featured, integrated services in compute, storage, database, analytics, mobile, Internet of Things (IOT) and enterprise applications. AWS operates a worldwide fleet of interconnected enterprise data centers at hyperscale to deliver the capacity that powers our customers IT infrastructure which enables their ability to concentrate on core competencies through agility and operational efficiency. To learn more about AWS, visit https://aws.amazon.com.

As AWS enjoys its ongoing rapid expansion, we are making investments in the Infrastructure Supply Chain and Procurement (ISCAP) team to optimize the value chain of technology ecosystem suppliers from whom we acquire good and services to run our cloud solutions. The AWS ISCAP team is responsible for the end-to-end sourcing and supply fulfilment to deploy customer capacity to AWS’s Data Center network. We are seeking a senior executive leader to build and direct a local Taiwan team of component sourcing engineers responsible for; predicting category market dynamics, driving supplier technology roadmaps aligned to AWS product innovation, and executing sourcing strategies that ensure supplier manufacturing capacity and supply output satisfies AWS growing materials demand requirements. The team will focus on printed circuit board assembly (PCBA) component commodity categories; multi-layer laminate PCB substrates, active integrated circuits (logic chipsets and analog semiconductors such as voltage regulators), interconnects, and passives (Capacitors, Inductors, Resistors, etc..). These component technologies are used across a range of AWS market verticals including, but not limited to - Server motherboard, Network communications switches, host bus adapters, network interface cards, solid state drives, IoT devices and power supply subsystems.

The successful candidate will be a seasoned business professional with a demonstrated record of staffing and leading high performing technology sourcing subject matter experts, cultivating influential C-level vendor relationships, harnessing component industry analytics to develop winning sourcing strategies, negotiating supply agreements, accelerating throughput velocity by reducing lead-times, and driving vendor output execution to prevent/resolve constraints. As the business owner you will engage frequently with Architects, Design Engineering, Supply Chain, Quality, Product Life Cycle Managers and Internal business unit service customers to understand AWS’s PCBA quality, availability and cost requirements, influence DFX - design for manufacturing/supply chain - direction, and subsequently orchestrate vendor engagement and sourcing strategies to exceed those needs. Being entrepreneurial, nimble, fast and decisive in pursuit of business priorities will be imperative as we balance the obligations of guaranteed continuity of supply delivered at best cost. AWS’s progress will bring the challenge to reinvent and adopt unconventional models to scale operational effectiveness and efficiencies for our desired future state. This role will report directly into the head of ISCAP’s Server Component Sourcing organization and is located out of Taipei. There will be travel required in this role including both domestic and international trips. Success in the role will be measured by how the leader is able to recruit, develop and lead their team to deliver against stated business objectives while instilling a results-oriented, lean, ownership culture of big thinking, fast acting, continuous improvement behavior.

Responsibilities Include:
  • Recruit, hire, develop, and retain top caliber technology sourcing talent
  • Cross functional team leadership and alignment
  • Drive the Component Engineering team to deliver
  • Identify and understand key category Industry and technology trends
  • Drive supplier product roadmaps and execute strategic quality/availability/cost improvement initiatives in those categories
  • Influence vendors' manufacturing processes, technology decisions, and policies in beneficial and sustainable ways.
  • Develop and execute applicable category vendor strategies in support of business requirements for AWS hardware.
  • Source, Select, Risk Assess/Mitigate, Qualify and On-Board new category suppliers.
  • Successfully close complex negotiations including commercial terms, statements of work, SLAs, capacity, supply & pricing.
  • Implement vendor performance controls to ensure operational excellence.
  • Target and deliver aggressive supply capacity assurance and lead-time reduction initiatives.
  • Build a team, vendor base, and business processes which scale with the business.
  • Drive change through excellent verbal and written communication with data driven inputs.
  • Communicated management and business partner presentation via white paper narratives.
  • Create mechanisms to ensure details of the business are understood, managed, and improved upon.

  • MBA and / or advanced engineering degree
  • 3+ years working in Enterprise Server compute, storage and/or networking market segments
  • 3+ years working in in electronics product/component development, manufacture, sourcing and supply operations in one or more of the following areas…
  • Printed Circuit Board fabrication, Surface Mount Assembly and Test.
  • ASIC/ASSP Integrated Circuit Semiconductors (SOC, Memory, Voltage Regulation, Logic, Mixed Signal Interface Phys, etc…)
  • Electro-Mechanical Interconnects and thermal solutions (Sockets, Connectors, Heat Sinks, etc..)
  • Passive Components (Capacitors, Inductors, Resistors, Oscillators, Filters, Fuses, etc…)
  • Proven track record of organizational design and change management
  • General manager/owner mentality, entrepreneurial drive, and proven ability to influence others

  • Opportunistic nature with creative problem-solving skills and emphasis on simplification, scaling, and automation.

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