Regional Capacity Strategist

Job Title: Senior Regional and Capacity Delivery Planner ">
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AWS owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. This involves ensuring that our customers have continual access to the innovation they rely on. We support all AWS data centers and all of the servers, storage, networking, power, and cooling equipment that make this possible.

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.

This is a Sr. Technical Infrastructure Program Manager (TIPM)-level role responsible for working across the AWS Organization to align on both short- and long-range demand plans for APAC data center capacity and the infrastructure response through the acquisition of space and power.

The successful candidate 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.

The ideal candidate should enjoy problem solving, be comfortable discovering, accessing, and working with data from multiple sources, be passionate about building and improving highly accurate and robust forecasting models, and be enthusiastic about partnering with other teams across the business to deliver results.

Key Responsibilities:

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• 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. ">">

About Us:

We value diverse experiences and welcome bold ideas and fresh perspectives. Our employee-led and company-sponsored affinity groups promote inclusion and empower our people to take pride in what makes us unique.

We're continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth's Best Employer. That's why you'll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

We value work-life harmony and flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there's nothing we can't achieve.

Qualifications:

A minimum of 6 years of experience in capacity planning, production planning, operations planning, or inventory planning or related experience (e.g. forecasting, planning, optimization, etc.). Demonstrated project management and analytical skills are required.

Working-level knowledge of Excel (Pivot Tables, VLOOKUP's) and SQL is essential.

Prior experience working in public cloud sector and advanced forecast modeling techniques including safety stock optimization and sensitivity analysis are desirable.

Experience with business intelligence and data visualization and reporting tools is also preferred.