Procurement Category Manager, InfraOps Planning and Sourcing
About the role
AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. The Procurement Category Manager will manage a category within the Maintenance, Repair, and Operations (MRO) domains, achieving cost savings through bidding and negotiations, planning and executing effective negotiation strategies with vendors, analyzing category data and metrics to drive Procurement category strategies, understanding trends in customers' needs and concerns, building strong relationships with customers, leading supplier selection process across multiple categories, internal teams, and regions, leading business reviews to discuss best practices and issues, and providing support throughout the contracting process, as well as management of contracts post-execution.
Responsibilities
- Manage a category within the Maintenance, Repair, and Operations (MRO) domains
- Achieve cost savings through bidding and negotiations
- Plan and execute effective negotiation strategies with vendors
- Analyze category data and metrics to drive Procurement category strategies
- Understand trends in customers’ needs and concerns, across categories and regions, to influence customers’ priorities
- Build strong relationship with customers and ensure customer satisfaction
- Lead supplier selection process across multiple categories, internal teams, and regions, and create longer-term supplier selection strategies for management
- Lead business reviews to discuss best practices and issues and to ultimately improve supplier performance and strengthen business partnerships
- Provide support throughout the contracting process, as well as management of contracts post-execution
Requirements
- 5+ years of procurement, supply chain, inventory management, contract management, lease administration or operations experience
- 5+ years of relevant strategic sourcing including vendor negotiations, global contract management, process improvement, operational and financial analysis experience
- Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Business, Engineering, Finance, or a related technical field
- Experience in procurement, supply chain, inventory management, contract management, lease administration or operations
- Experience in strategic sourcing including vendor negotiations, global contract management, process improvement, operational and financial analysis
- Experience with data analysis tools such as Advanced Excel, SQL, Tableau, Python
- Experience in global supply chain management, managing cross-functional teams in a fast-paced consumer electronics product company
Qualifications
- 4+ years of program, project, product management, or leading a product implementation process experience
- Master's degree in Business Administration, Finance, Economics, Computer Science, or a related field
- Experience in program, project, product management, or leading a product implementation process
- Experience in data centers, infrastructure service providers, or related technology companies
Skills
- Highly analytical
- Strategic and global thinking
- Curiosity and learning drive
- Sense of urgency to meet customer timelines
- Customer focus and business judgement
- Embrace and model Amazon’s Leadership Principles
Benefits
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
Base Salary Range: $79,500.00 - $139,100.00 USD annually
Location: USA, TX, Austin - $79,500.00 - $139,100.00 USD annually
USA, VA, Herndon - $79,500.00 - $139,100.00 USD annually
USA, WA, Seattle - $82,700.00 - $139,100.00 USD annually