Head of Data Center Operations Procurement - Americas, Infrastructure Planning and Sourcing

Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides a highly reliable, scalable, and low-cost cloud platform that powers thousands of businesses in over 190 countries. AWS’ Infrastructure Supply Chain & Procurement (ISCaP) organization works to deliver innovative solutions to source, build and maintain our socially responsible data center supply chains. We are a team of highly-motivated, engaged, and responsive professionals who enable the core sustainable infrastructure of AWS.

About the role

We are currently seeking a highly creative, results-driven and forward-thinking senior procurement leader to join our IPS Procurement team. As a regional head of IPS procurement, you will assume responsibility for managing our AMER operations goods and services portfolio required to support data center operations, including maintenance, repair and operations services, security services and equipment and environmental, health and safety services.

You will lead a team of procurement professionals who manage categories within this regional portfolio while also working directly with managers in other regions to ensure that, globally, our internal customers have a consistently positive experience with the team. You will be charged with empowering your team to take full ownership of their space and motivating them to deliver results that have a direct impact on Amazon’s bottom line and future success.

Your team will be responsible for establishing strong procurement strategies, and you will be responsible for holding them accountable as they drive these initiatives while navigating them through key strategy shifts, as necessary. It will be critical that you identify new ways to forge partnerships with our supply base to achieve long-term, mutually beneficial outcomes. You will also ensure that the team can appropriately scale as the business grows, and you must be proactive in identifying ways to stay ahead of this curve.

As the regional manager you must embody and model the team’s vision, which is to be trusted strategic partners to the business through the development of strong, long term, collaborative executive level relationships which deliver cost effective, innovative and scalable solutions. The team serves the best interest of Amazon by engaging in ethical, sustainable, transparent and professional transactions and takes ownership of procurement requirements for our Data Center Operations to increase high quality competition, promote supplier diversity, and elevate supplier performance.

Responsibilities

• Strategic leadership of procurement professionals to set ambitious goals that help move the organization forward so there is a greater emphasis on strategic procurement, as opposed to tactical procurement.
• Building on an existing supplier qualification program to ensure we are appropriately mitigating the risks of doing business with new and existing suppliers.
• Working with your team and its internal customers to establish robust regional procurement strategies that align with the larger global strategy, and ensuring that your team is delivering results accordingly. You will also take responsibility for the global strategy for an assigned category.
• Communicating frequently and professionally with internal customers and stakeholders on the status of procurement actions.
• Development of white papers and strategy documents.
• Leading multi-faceted sourcing initiatives; cost savings plans and targets; supplier relationship management objectives; and customer- and supplier-focused trainings.
• Establishing mechanisms to evaluate your team’s performance, and mentoring them for overall performance and effectiveness in specific situations.
• Utilizing metrics to make business decisions and evaluate the team’s overall performance against established SLAs and processes.
• Creating procurement policies and procedures and driving process improvement initiatives that positively impact customers, stakeholders, and the team.
• Advocating for the value of procurement by aligning with internal customers and ensuring that their requirements are met.
• Creating procedures and tools and simplifying those that already exist.

Requirements

• Master's degree, or MBA in supply chain management, operations, engineering, analytics or related field.
• 10+ years of managing procurement teams with direct experience in supplier/supply chain experience.
• Experience prioritizing and handling multiple assignments at any given time while maintaining commitment to deadlines, or experience with Microsoft Office products and applications.
• Experience managing and negotiating contracts and vendor relationships.
• Experience hiring candidates, mentoring and developing employees in their careers.
• Experience leveraging technology and implementing lean principles / Six Sigma methodologies to drive process improvements or equivalent.
• Experience communicating results to senior leadership, or experience in solving complex business challenges by delivering accurate and timely financial models, analysis, and recommendations that have a proven impact on business (e.g., financial savings, operational improvements, or customer benefits).

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of Six Sigma tools, Lean techniques, PMP or similar standards preferred.
• Experience managing procurement teams with direct experience in supplier/supply chain management.
• Experience analyzing metrics to drive business improvements.
• Experience in data center engineering or operations, or experience in vendor negotiation and management for data center or upgrade construction contracts.
• CIPS/ISM/APICS certification/membership of equivalent.

Pay

USA, TX, Austin - 218,900.00 - 296,100.00 USD annually

USA, VA, Herndon - 218,900.00 - 296,100.00 USD annually

USA, WA, Seattle - 218,900.00 - 296,100.00 USD annually

Benefits

• Sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs).
• Comprehensive health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans).
• Employee Assistance Program (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.