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You'll develop bottom-up cost estimates, should-cost models, and Value Engineering analyses across a diverse portfolio of building types, material handling equipment (MHE), automation, and capital projects. From multi-site retrofit programs to complex, one-off initiatives, you'll evaluate design alternatives, optimize specifications, identify cost drivers, and produce defensible cost models that shape sourcing, design, and investment decisions. Working from early concepts through bid-ready construction documents, you'll apply technical expertise to balance cost, quality, performance, and operational requirements.\nAs part of Amazon's Global Procurement Organization within the Sourcing Excellence pillar, you'll partner closely with Engineering, Design, Construction, Procurement, and Category teams to ensure Amazon is buying the right solution at the right price. You'll also collaborate with AI and Market Intelligence Solutions, leveraging AI-powered tools to accelerate analysis, develop scalable cost intelligence, and advance next-generation automation that expands the reach and impact of Cost & Value Engineering across Amazon.\nKey job responsibilities\nDeliver independent, bottom-up cost estimates for construction, equipment, and capital investment projects across Amazon's global portfolio, spanning retrofit, expansion, new-build, automation, and equipment deployment initiatives.\nDevelop cost estimates from early-stage concepts through supplier selection and implementation, adapting methodologies and analytical depth to available project information and design maturity.\nBuild and maintain scalable estimating models and templates while developing detailed bottom-up cost models for complex, site-specific initiatives requiring advanced analytical judgment.\nPerform should-cost modeling, benchmarking, and Value Engineering analyses to evaluate design alternatives, optimize specifications, identify cost drivers, and ensure Amazon is buying the right solution at the right price.\nLeverage AI-powered tools to automate data gathering, cost modeling, benchmarking, and pattern recognition while applying engineering judgment to validate outputs and resolve complex or ambiguous scopes.\nDrive the development of scalable AI-enabled cost intelligence solutions by curating project and market data, validating model performance, and identifying opportunities to automate routine analytical activities.\nPartner with Engineering, Design, Construction, Procurement, Category Management, and business stakeholders to validate assumptions, communicate cost risks, evaluate alternatives, and influence sourcing and investment decisions.\nPeer review cost models, estimates, and Value Engineering recommendations to ensure technical rigor, consistency, and alignment with current market conditions and best practices.\nAbout the team\nThe Sourcing Excellence team helps Amazon answer two fundamental questions: **Are we buying the right product?** (Value Engineering) and **Are we paying the right price?** (Cost Engineering). **Value Engineering** ensures Amazon is investing in the right construction solutions, equipment, and technologies by optimizing specifications, design, materials, and performance to maximize business value while meeting operational requirements. **Cost Engineering** establishes cost transparency and price confidence through bottom-up cost estimation, should-cost modeling, benchmarking, market intelligence, and cost driver analysis to determine what construction projects, equipment, and services should cost.\nTogether, these disciplines provide transparent, fact-based insights that enable informed sourcing, design, and investment decisions throughout the project lifecycle. Our vision is to make cost and value transparency a strategic capability across the organization, ensuring every investment delivers the optimal balance of cost, quality, performance, and operational requirements. Today, the team supports billions of dollars in managed spend across construction, material handling equipment, automation, and other strategic sourcing categories, and continues to scale its impact through AI-enabled solutions, standardized mechanisms, and cross-functional partnerships.\nBasic qualifications\n- Bachelor's degree\n- Knowledge of Excel (Pivot Tables, VLookUps) at an advanced level and SQL\n- Experience in program or project management\n- Experience working cross functionally with tech and non-tech teams\n- Experience in defining and implementing process improvement initiatives using data and metrics\n- Experience in supply chain\n- Experience defining program requirements and using data and metrics to determine improvements\nPreferred qualifications\n- Experience in driving end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership\n- Experience leading process improvements\n- Experience in stakeholder management, dealing with multiple stakeholders at varied levels of the organization\n- Experience building processes, project management, and schedules\nAmazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Amazon. Please consult our Privacy Notice (https://www.amazon.jobs/en/privacy_page) to know more about how we collect, use and transfer the personal data of our candidates.\nOur 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. 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