Catgory Manager, GPO, Global Procurement Organization (GPO)

Key job responsibilities

• Drive appropriate commercial relationships with suppliers, with a principal objective of achieving the lowest total cost of ownership that meets the business’ goals, supported by a culture of continuous improvement with cost & performance benchmarks in use.
• Lead sourcing engagements and competitive bidding (RFI, RFQ, and RFP).
• Achieve cost savings through projects including bidding and commercial negotiations.
• Leverage proven negotiation strategies to deliver against business objectives and achieve sustainable relationships with strategic suppliers pertaining to Amazon Operations.
• Influence suppliers' processes, technology decisions, and policies in ways that are mutually beneficial and sustainable for both organizations by leveraging the growth of Amazon's spend.
• Negotiate and implement supplier agreements/contracts by working with cross-functional stakeholders and suppliers to reach agreement on contract terms and conditions.
• Analyze and determine cost reduction opportunities by leveraging volumes, optimizing the supplier base and reducing total cost of ownership.
• Analyze and understand data to create accurate forecasting.
• Adapt to a fast paced, constantly changing environment.
• Work with our team and business partners for the creation and continuous improvement.
• Develop mechanisms and metrics to track supplier performance related to forecasting, delivery, quality, and cost

Keys to success in this role

• Sound judgment and excellent written/verbal communication skills.

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of relevant strategic sourcing and category management in indirect categories such as professional services, support or maintenance spend, supply chain, forecasting, manufacturing, sourcing/procurement, or vendor management experience.
• 3+ years of working cross functionally with tech and non-tech teams experience.
• 3+ years of defining and implementing process improvement initiatives using data and metrics experience.
• 3+ years of negotiations/cost savings, supplier excellence, and risk mitigation experience.
• Bachelor's degree
• Knowledge of Excel (Pivot Tables, VLookUps) at an advanced level and SQL
• Experience defining program requirements and using data and metrics to determine improvements

Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ years of driving end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership experience.
• 3+ years of driving process improvements experience.
• Experience in stakeholder management, dealing with multiple stakeholders at varied levels of the organization.
• Experience building processes, project management, and schedules.