Amazon
Sr. Materials Lifecycle Specialist, WW Sustainability
$140K–$189K
Seattle, WA · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 1, 2026
- Experience
- Preferred: 5+ years in a role optimizing sustainability, yield, and/or operations of commodity supply chains at point of origin or processing.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in environmental, chemical, or materials science engineering or related technical field.
About the job
Develops and implements materials sustainability strategies to reduce environmental and social impacts, mitigate commodity supply-chain risks, and improve resilience across Amazon businesses.
What you'll do
- Assess commodity supply chains and develop sourcing, recovery, and risk-mitigation guidance and strategic plans.
- Collaborate with business units and technical teams to build impact-measurement tools, KPIs, and data pipelines.
- Pilot material production, processing, and recovery technologies and develop cases for scaling effective approaches.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in environmental, chemical, or materials science engineering or related technical field.
- Experience working with a matrixed team of stakeholders to achieve a common goal or equivalent.
- Experience building and managing financial models for business forecasting and problem solving.
- Experience owning program strategy, end-to-end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership; broad supply-chain knowledge and experience tracking sustainability or sourcing best practices.
Nice to have
- Master's degree in supply chain, business, engineering, finance or related technical or quantitative field.
- 5+ years of experience optimizing sustainability, yield, and/or operations of commodity supply chains at point of origin or processing.
Pay
139,500.00 - 188,700.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
geospatial, AI
AI focus
Collaborate with Tech and Science teams on geospatial and AI-enabled tools for measuring material impacts and risks; preferred familiarity with AI productivity, research, and data analysis tools.
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