Senior Materials Program Manager, Advanced Product Operations (APO)
Job summaryThe Senior Materials Program Manager is the leader responsible to deliver products that delight Amazon's customers at the right product cost.
The Sr.
MPM does this by challenging cost and feature creep, leading costing exercises, participating in early concept reviews, working with supplier partners and cross-functional teams, all while reporting to executives on status and progress.
Key job responsibilitiesThe Materials Program Manager (MPM) is responsible for the management and delivery of the product financial health for groundbreaking, highly integrated consumer products.
This MPM has a business orientation and is responsible for working within operations, engineering, and software teams to drive development, implementation, and management of the product cost.
This MPM is the business voice responsible for capturing, documenting, and communicating financial exposures for the product.
The MPM is involved in all stages of the product's lifecycle, from pre-concept costing through development and into the start of production.
The MPM is the Single-Threaded Owner (STO) to:
report the product cost status, risks, and opportunities in executive reviews; work with engineering, operations, and commodity managers to set program cost targets and challenge cost increases, especially where not consistent with approved program design and feature goals; join pre-concept product teams to understand new-product design cost/feature targets, lead product costing exercises, and identify cost/feature tradeoff choices to support the program goals; be knowledgable of market trends in cost, supply, and market risks, and work with global commodity managers to consider alternate vendor selection and technologies.
A day in the lifeAt any stage of the program lifecycle, the MPM will be solving problems.
At pre-concept, the MPM is key to the approval of new concept products.
The MPM works with the product manager, engineering, and GCMs to identify cost and performance trade-offs, costing design alternatives, and establishing product cost targets and guardrails.
During development, the MPM identifies cost opportunities and risks, establishes supplier strategy, and identifies & mitigates cost and supply risks.
Any given day, the MPM will be in the lab looking at design alternatives for a new concept, or in an executive program review to lead the discussion of market cost trends or cost risks & opportunities for a given product.
About the teamAdvanced Product Operations (APO) team is Amazon Lab126's team responsible for New Product Introductions for some of Amazon's most innovative and challenging programs.
We engage at all levels of the Lab126 organization to manage Operations, Product Cost, Material Readiness, and Factory Readiness.
We take on the really tough ideas and turn them into reality!Amazon's 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 TV, Amazon Echo, Amazon Show, and we're not done inventing and innovating! The Amazon Devices group delivers delightfully unique Amazon experiences, giving customers instant access to everything, digital, or physical.
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Estimated Salary: $20 to $28 per hour based on qualifications.
The Sr.
MPM does this by challenging cost and feature creep, leading costing exercises, participating in early concept reviews, working with supplier partners and cross-functional teams, all while reporting to executives on status and progress.
Key job responsibilitiesThe Materials Program Manager (MPM) is responsible for the management and delivery of the product financial health for groundbreaking, highly integrated consumer products.
This MPM has a business orientation and is responsible for working within operations, engineering, and software teams to drive development, implementation, and management of the product cost.
This MPM is the business voice responsible for capturing, documenting, and communicating financial exposures for the product.
The MPM is involved in all stages of the product's lifecycle, from pre-concept costing through development and into the start of production.
The MPM is the Single-Threaded Owner (STO) to:
report the product cost status, risks, and opportunities in executive reviews; work with engineering, operations, and commodity managers to set program cost targets and challenge cost increases, especially where not consistent with approved program design and feature goals; join pre-concept product teams to understand new-product design cost/feature targets, lead product costing exercises, and identify cost/feature tradeoff choices to support the program goals; be knowledgable of market trends in cost, supply, and market risks, and work with global commodity managers to consider alternate vendor selection and technologies.
A day in the lifeAt any stage of the program lifecycle, the MPM will be solving problems.
At pre-concept, the MPM is key to the approval of new concept products.
The MPM works with the product manager, engineering, and GCMs to identify cost and performance trade-offs, costing design alternatives, and establishing product cost targets and guardrails.
During development, the MPM identifies cost opportunities and risks, establishes supplier strategy, and identifies & mitigates cost and supply risks.
Any given day, the MPM will be in the lab looking at design alternatives for a new concept, or in an executive program review to lead the discussion of market cost trends or cost risks & opportunities for a given product.
About the teamAdvanced Product Operations (APO) team is Amazon Lab126's team responsible for New Product Introductions for some of Amazon's most innovative and challenging programs.
We engage at all levels of the Lab126 organization to manage Operations, Product Cost, Material Readiness, and Factory Readiness.
We take on the really tough ideas and turn them into reality!Amazon's 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 TV, Amazon Echo, Amazon Show, and we're not done inventing and innovating! The Amazon Devices group delivers delightfully unique Amazon experiences, giving customers instant access to everything, digital, or physical.
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Estimated Salary: $20 to $28 per hour based on qualifications.
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