Software Development Manager, Purchase Order Forecasting

Software Development Manager

Purchase Order Forecasting team at Amazon is seeking a passionate, experienced Software Development Manager to lead a team developing state-of-the-art forecasting models and vendor collaboration tools that provide vendors with advanced visibility of Amazon's orders. These forecasts enable effective partnership with vendors to reduce overall supply chain costs and acquire the right items at the right time and the right price to delight our customers. In this role, you will partner closely with research scientists, product managers, other engineering teams, and business leaders to experiment with novel ways of forecasting and fulfilling Amazon's upcoming orders, and scale these solutions to cover the millions of items sold by Amazon. If you are excited by the challenges of building large-scale, innovative supply chain solutions for some of the most complex problems in the industry, this may be a good fit for you.

Our team is part of the Supply Chain Optimization Technologies (SCOT) organization. SCOT owns Amazon's global inventory sourcing & planning systems. We decide what, when, where, how much and from whom we should buy to meet the diverse needs of our global customer base. We do this for millions of items, for hundreds of product lines worth billions of dollars of inventory worldwide. Our systems are built entirely in-house and feature the latest innovations in automated large scale supply chain sourcing, planning, and optimization systems.

Key job responsibilities as a Software Development Manager in the Purchase Order forecasting team include: leading and mentoring a team of software engineers focused on building the next generation of order forecasting solutions. You will work closely with research scientists and product teams to develop innovative prediction models, while driving the technical strategy and roadmap for purchase order forecasting systems. An important aspect of your role will be ensuring operational excellence and reliability of mission-critical forecasting infrastructure. You will partner with business stakeholders and senior leaders to understand requirements and deliver effective solutions, while fostering a culture of innovation, ownership, and technical excellence within your team.

A day in the life could involve thinking big and working with leadership, cross teams, and business stakeholders to define strategy and roadmap. You will facilitate the design and architecture of the distributed and highly scalable services needed to solve supply chain problems in this space. Delivering on the product roadmap will involve managing the full software development lifecycle of the services. Coaching, mentoring and developing some of the smartest engineers in the world will be part of your role. You will own the inputs and the business outcome through cultivating a culture of relentless auditing and metric monitoring, automatically where possible.

This position is in Amazon's Purchase Order (PO) Forecasting team, where we're revolutionizing supply chain management by building sophisticated systems that bridge the gap between Amazon's procurement needs and our vendors' supply capabilities. Our team develops intelligent forecasting solutions and collaboration tools that provide vendors with insights into Amazon's future purchasing patterns across national and global scales. In this team, you will work on innovative predictive models and state-of-the-art systems that ingest and process vast amounts of data to generate accurate purchase order forecasts, build flexible platforms for customized vendor and retail user experiences, and help shape the future of collaborative planning with vendors through two-way communication tools.