Drimva

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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