Aviat Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVNW) works to provide dependable wireless transport products, services and support to our customers, building the foundation for an LTE and 5G broadband future. With more than one million systems sold into 170 countries worldwide, communications service providers and private network operators including state/local government, utility, federal government and defense organizations trust Aviat with their critical applications. Coupled with a long history of microwave innovations, Aviat provides a comprehensive suite of localized professional and support services enabling customers to drastically simplify both their networks and their lives. For more than 70 years, the experts at Aviat have delivered high performance products, simplified operations, and the best overall customer experience. Aviat Networks is headquartered in Austin, Texas. For more information, visit www.aviatnetworks.com

Industry: Telecommunications
Company Size: 501-1,000 employees

Aviat Networks

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At Aviat Networks, we take great pride in hiring a workforce that is committed to supporting and strengthening our values and attributes. If you are a results-oriented, customer centric and innovative thinker who also takes pride in personal and professional integrity, Aviat Networks is the ideal next step in your career. We are looking for people who love to solve problems, enjoy change, and know how to have fun so come and join a dynamic team that strives to bring communications to the world.

Aviat Networks is the world’s largest independent supplier of wireless transmission systems. We are recognized worldwide for cutting-edge 5G, backhaul, networking solutions and services. Customers in more than 135 countries depend on Aviat Networks to build, expand, and upgrade their voice, data, and video solutions.

**About the Role: **The Director, Global Procurement is a senior leadership role accountable for defining and executing Aviat’s worldwide procurement strategy across direct materials, contract manufacturing, logistics, and indirect spend categories. This role is critical to driving sustainable cost reduction, strengthening supplier partnerships, and enabling scalable, resilient global operations. The ideal candidate is a hands-on procurement leader with deep experience negotiating complex commercial agreements with OEMs, contract manufacturers (CMs), and global distributors, combined with a rigorous, data-driven approach to cost-model validation, commodity pricing governance, and supplier performance management. Most importantly, this leader will build, develop, and inspire high-performing global procurement teams, cultivating a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

**Responsibilities: **

- Global Procurement Strategy & Cost Leadership

- Define and execute a global procurement strategy aligned with company financial, operational, and growth objectives.

- Lead enterprise-wide cost reduction initiatives across:

- Contract manufacturing and OEM partnerships

- Direct material suppliers and commodities

- Logistics and freight providers

- All indirect spend categories (IT, services, facilities, professional services, etc.)

- Establish disciplined processes to regularly vet and challenge supplier cost models, including BOMs, labor assumptions, overhead, margins, and commodity inputs.

- Drive should-cost modeling, benchmarking, and clean-sheet analyses to ensure competitive and transparent pricing.

**Supplier & Contract Management **

- Lead complex commercial negotiations with OEMs, CMs, and distributors, ensuring optimal total cost of ownership (TCO), risk mitigation, and contractual protections.

- Own global supplier contract strategies, including:

- Long-term supply agreements

- Volume commitments and pricing frameworks

- Risk-sharing and escalation clauses

- Performance-based incentives and penalties

- Build and maintain strategic, executive-level supplier relationships while maintaining firm commercial discipline.

- Continuously assess supplier viability, cost competitiveness, capacity, and risk.

**Manufacturing, Logistics & Risk Management **

- Partner closely with Operations, Manufacturing, Engineering, and Finance to align sourcing decisions with demand planning, production strategies, and working capital objectives.

- Identify and mitigate supply chain and logistics risks, including geopolitical, capacity, financial, and transportation disruptions.

- Develop and maintain contingency plans and lead procurement response efforts during supply chain disruptions or crisis events.

- Analytics, Governance & Systems

- Establish strong governance around procurement KPIs, cost savings validation, and supplier scorecards.

- Leverage ERP/MRP and advanced analytics tools to support:

- Demand alignment

- Inventory optimization

- Cost trend analysis

- Supplier performance management

- Ensure procurement decisions are fact-based, data-driven, and financially sound.

- People Leadership & Organizational Development

- Build, lead, and develop a high-performing global procurement organization.

- Set a clear vision, expectations, and career paths for procurement team members.

**Foster a culture of: **

- Accountability and ownership

- Talent development and coaching

- Cross-functional collaboration

- Continuous improvement and innovation

- Act as a trusted leader and partner across the organization, influencing at all levels.

**Qualifications & Competencies: **

**Required **

- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Supply Chain, Engineering, Finance, or related field (MBA or advanced degree preferred).

- 10+ years of progressive procurement and supply chain experience, with significant leadership experience at the Director or Senior Manager level in a global manufacturing or technology environment.

- Demonstrated success driving large-scale cost reduction initiatives across direct, indirect, and logistics spend.

- Deep expertise in contract negotiations with OEMs, CMs, and global distributors.

- Strong experience in cost modeling, should-cost analysis, and commodity pricing governance.

- Proven ability to build, lead, and scale teams, including remote and global organizations.

- Advanced analytical skills with strong financial acumen.

- Expertise with ERP/MRP systems and advanced supply chain analytics tools.

**Preferred **

- Background in telecommunications, electronics, or complex hardware manufacturing.

- Experience managing global suppliers across Asia, the Americas, and Europe.

- Familiarity with lean principles and continuous improvement methodologies.

**Leadership Competencies **

- Strategic and systems-level thinker with strong execution discipline

- Confident, ethical, and decisive negotiator

- Results-oriented leader who drives measurable impact

- Strong communicator who can influence executives and frontline teams

- Comfortable operating in fast-paced, ambiguous environments

**We encourage you to read our **Candidate Privacy Notice**. ** **You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. To do this you can email us at ** privacy@aviatnet.com**. **

**Aviat Networks provides equal employment opportunity for all applicants and employees. The Company does not discriminate against applicants or employees on the basis of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran or military status, disability or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal, state or local law. **

**Aviat Networks **offers**a competitive benefits package. Apply NOW to learn more! **

**For positions in California, Colorado, or New York City you may contact us at human.resources@aviatnet.com for the salary range for this position (include the exact Job Title as it reads above). **

Director, Global Procurement

Launched in 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS) began exposing key infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services - now widely known as cloud computing. The ultimate benefit of cloud computing, and AWS, is the ability to leverage a new business model and turn capital infrastructure expenses into variable costs. Businesses no longer need to plan and procure servers and other IT resources weeks or months in advance. Using AWS, businesses can take advantage of Amazon's expertise and economies of scale to access resources when their business needs them, delivering results faster and at a lower cost.

Today, Amazon Web Services provides a highly reliable, scalable, low-cost infrastructure platform in the cloud that powers hundreds of thousands of businesses in 190 countries around the world. With data center locations in the U.S., Europe, Singapore, and Japan, customers across all industries are taking advantage of our low cost, elastic, open and flexible, secure platform.

Industry: IT Services and IT Consulting
Company Size: 10,001+ employees

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

**Description**

AWS Global Sales drives adoption of the AWS cloud worldwide, enabling customers of all sizes to innovate and expand in the cloud. Our team empowers every customer to grow by providing tailored service, unmatched technology, and support. We dive deep to understand each customer's unique challenges, then craft innovative solutions that accelerate their success. This customer-first approach is how we built the world's most adopted cloud. Join us and help us grow.

Amazon Web Services is looking for a highly motivated Solutions Architect to help accelerate customer adoption. This is an excellent opportunity to join Amazon’s world class technical sales teams, working with some of the best and brightest engineers, architects, and technical managers. You will also develop your skills and further your career within one of the most innovative and progressive technology companies anywhere.

As a Solutions Architect at AWS you will work directly with customers. We are looking for individuals who are motivated by the opportunity to work backwards from these customers' needs and help them gain competitive edge using AWS. As an experienced technologist and key member of the Account team you will help influence customers' architectural choices across broad use cases involving security, compute, storage networking as well as advanced scenarios involving serverless, analytics, and Generative AI.

As a part of the role, you will provide exceptional technical design guidance and thought leadership. You will lead efforts to capture and share best-practice knowledge with the AWS solution architect community. You will also gain the opportunity to learn from, collaborate with, and educate some of the brightest technical minds in the industry today across the breadth of enterprise architecture.

Key job responsibilities

-  In partnership with the sales team, formulate and execute a technical sales strategy to exceed revenue objectives through the adoption of AWS services.

-  Educate customers on the value proposition of AWS and participate in deep architectural discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment in the cloud

-  Build deep relationships with senior technical stakeholders within customers to enable them to be cloud advocates

-  Conduct one-to-few and one-to-many training sessions to transfer knowledge to customers considering or already using AWS

-  Capture and share best-practice knowledge within the AWS solutions architect community

-  Author or otherwise contribute to AWS customer-facing publications such as whitepapers

-  Act as a technical liaison between customers and product teams and help evolve the AWS platform.

Advocate for AWS's GenAI strategy by building demos and PoCs to show customers the art-of-the possible

A day in the life

AWS is looking for Solution Architects who have been builders themselves, share a passion for cloud-native businesses and are excited to apply their expertise working with customers. Hyper-scale growth is the new norm for many of these organizations. The right candidate has the ability to anticipate challenges or “look around corners”. A key success metric is to reduce or manage blockers by applying your technical experience.

You will work alongside C-Level decision makers, technical leads, developers, and infrastructure managers. You will also influence the future of the AWS platform by driving the continued success of our customers, while learning new cloud technologies. If you’re excited by engaging innovative thought leaders, have a strong technical background, and are looking to grow your cloud expertise, we want to hear from you.

**About The Team**

Diverse Experiences: AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

Why AWS? Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Inclusive Team Culture: AWS values curiosity and connection. Our employee-led and company-sponsored affinity groups promote inclusion and empower our people to take pride in what makes us unique. Our inclusion events foster stronger, more collaborative teams. Our continual innovation is fueled by the bold ideas, fresh perspectives, and passionate voices our teams bring to everything we do.

Mentorship & Career Growth: 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.

Work/Life Balance: We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.

**Basic Qualifications**

-  4+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience

-  2+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience

-  5+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience

**Preferred Qualifications**

-  Knowledge of cloud architecture

-  Experience in technology/software sales, pre-sales, or consulting

-  Experience in IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, IL, Chicago - 131,300.00 - 177,600.00 USD annually

USA, TX, Austin - 131,300.00 - 177,600.00 USD annually

USA, TX, Dallas - 131,300.00 - 177,600.00 USD annually

USA, VA, Arlington - 131,300.00 - 177,600.00 USD annually

**Company ** - Amazon Web Services, Inc.

Job ID: A3190951

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