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Senior Supply Chain Manager, Global Procurement Organization (GPO)

Amazon · Arlington, VA · 2 wk ago
DistributionFull-time

About the team

The Global Procurement Organization manages procurement operations across Amazon's diverse business units, driving efficiency, innovation, and value creation through world-class procurement capabilities that support Amazon's mission to be Earth's most customer-centric company.

Key job responsibilities

  • Lead complex initiatives independently with minimal guidance, working both tactically and strategically across GPO operations at country, regional, and cross-regional levels
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Operations, Transportation, Procurement, Finance, Risk, Business Strategy, Technology, and Engineering to deliver business transformations from initiation through successful implementation
  • Create mechanisms and metrics to track performance, measure benefit realization, and drive continuous improvement across the organization
  • Analyze complex data using advanced Excel, SQL, and database tools to identify trends, risks, and opportunities for strategic improvement
  • Influence organizational goals by working across multiple stakeholder teams, functions, and leaders, extending influence across teams
  • Lead process improvements by proposing network-wide solutions that improve and drive operational excellence best practices
  • Provide strategic direction and serve as escalation point for complex challenges, finding paths forward in difficult situations

Basic Qualifications

  • 5+ years of program or project management experience
  • Experience using data and metrics to determine and drive improvements
  • Experience owning program strategy, end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership

Preferred Qualifications

  • 2+ years of driving process improvements experience
  • Master's degree, or MBA in business, operations, human resources, adult education, organizational development, instructional design or related field
  • Knowledge of general AI tools
  • Experience designing, implementing, and scaling upskilling, apprenticeship, or workforce development programs across large-scale operations or corporate environments, including forecasting workforce needs and leveraging analytics to drive program decisions

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