Amazon Capacity Delivery Planner ADC Regions Amazon 

United States, Washington, Seattle 

743791366

You’ll join a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, operations managers, and other vital roles. You’ll collaborate with people across AWS to help us deliver the highest standards for safety and security while providing seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost for our customers. And you’ll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.This is a Technical Infrastructure Program Manager (TIPM) role responsible for working across the entire AWS Organization to align on both short- and long-range demand plans and develop robust strategies for data center capacity delivery. You will oversee the forecasting process which establishes capacity plans and work across AWS to manage strategic execution, while implementing process innovations and improvements to positively evolve forecasting models. You will conduct modeling and scenario analysis and make data-driven recommendations that inform capacity and capital expenditure decisions. You will partner with key stakeholders to bridge changes in demand, address short- and long-term capacity constraints, and write supporting documentation for capital expenditures. You will drive accountability across the infrastructure organization and develop mechanisms to monitor and escalate against the health of the infrastructure business to executive leadership.This position requires that the candidate selected be a US Citizen and obtain and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance.Key job responsibilities
• Support the forecasting of long-range data center capacity compute and storage needs over a 13-year period and optimize the allocation of data center resources to meet expected growth for a US-based AWS ADC contracts.
• Streamline reporting, benchmark forecasting assumptions and highlight key supportability risks for stakeholders.
• Dive deep into planning models to identify risks and opportunities for region health and resolve constraints by negotiating across demand and supply owners.
• Execute capacity delivery planning for short-term (0-24 months) with responsibilities to identify capacity risks, develop, and initiate capacity shortfall mitigation strategies.
• Manage capacity build and position inventory which includes rack retirement and migration planning, coordinating network requirements, addressing position usability defects, and managing power usage optimization projects.
• Identify opportunities to invent and simplify processes, identify business risks and implement resolutions and scalable mechanism.
• Communicate ideas concisely to a wide variety of stakeholders for purposes ranging from informative to seeking approvals from executives.A day in the life
Program planning
- Enhance abilities to assess and deal with capacity demand and delivery over a 0-13 year program of record for ADC AMER regions
- Identify and pursue opportunities to critically analyze and deliver capacity within constrained environments. This information is not readily available within AWS systems or tools. Therefore, requires development of strategy
- Critically analyze and prepare information used by senior leaders for region planning guidance
- Recurring status update or topic-focused meetings- Strategy discussions and problem solving
- Quick-turn document development and/or reviewAbout the team
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- BA/BS degree (Preferably in Physics, Engineering, Finance, Business, or Mathematics, however non-technical degrees will definitely be considered) or 8+ years equivalent work experience
- 5+ years of capacity planning, production planning, operations planning, or inventory planning or related experience (e.g. forecasting, planning, optimization, etc.)
- Demonstrated project management and analytical skills
- Working-level knowledge of Excel (Pivot Tables, VLookUps) and SQL

- Prior experience working in public cloud sector with MBA or other Master’s in a related field AND 3+ years program or product management
- Excellent written composition and verbal communication skills with experience partnering with stakeholders to develop quantitative and qualitative analysis to solve business problems
- A combination of diplomacy, empathy and firm backbone in order to drive stakeholder engagement and buy-in, drive sound solutions, and deliver results.
- Demonstrated project management skills, including managing multiple projects or programs at once in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment and demonstrated ability to engage and influence executive leadership
- Advanced forecast modeling techniques including safety stock optimization and sensitivity analysis
- Proven judgement to make timely, defensible decisions, with the character to admit when they don't know the answer and the willingness to go out and find it
- Intermediate to advanced knowledge of Excel (look-ups & pivot tables) and SQL, experience with business intelligence and data visualization and reporting tools, and intermediate to advanced knowledge of SQL, Visual Basic or other programming languages