Sr. Program Manager, Vendor Management, Worldwide Grocery Stores - Growth & Development
Amazon · Jersey City, NJ · 1 mo ago
ManagementFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections for headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content.
We need to parse the job posting.
We need to extract:
- About the role: description of role, maybe the first paragraph(s) describing responsibilities? Actually "About the role" could be the introductory description: "As a Sr. Program Manager for Vendor Management, you will set and enforce the financial terms...". Also "Here Is What Makes This Role Stand Out" could be part of about the role.
- Responsibilities: list of duties: "Lead contract negotiations and manage the full RFP lifecycle for R&M trades. Own the Rate Increase Validation Process ..." etc. Also "A day in the life" maybe part of responsibilities.
- Requirements: Basic Qualifications list.
- Qualifications: Preferred Qualifications list.
- Skills: maybe not explicitly listed; but we could infer from responsibilities? However we should only include sections if posting has real specific content. There's no explicit "Skills" heading; but we could extract skills from qualifications? Might be better to omit Skills if not explicit.
- Benefits: The posting mentions benefits: "Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance..., 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave." Also "Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs)." So we have benefits content.
- Pay: The posting includes salary ranges for various locations: "USA, IL, Chicago - 115,600.00 - 160,000.00 USD annually" etc. So we have pay info.
- Schedule: Not mentioned; no schedule info. So omit Schedule.
We must not repeat job title as heading. Do not include Job ID etc.
We must remove boilerplate: EEO, accommodation link, etc. Also remove "Learn more about our benefits at ..."? That's part of benefits but maybe we keep the description but not the link? The instruction: remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. The benefits link might be considered navigation? It's a link to benefits page; maybe we should keep the benefit description but drop the URL? The instruction says remove boilerplate, not necessarily remove URLs if they are part of benefits description? Safer to keep the benefit description but maybe drop the link. However we can keep the sentence without the URL: "Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave." That's fine.
Also "Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs)." That's part of compensation/benefits.
Now we need to format:
Use for section headings.
Use
for section headings.
Use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits, and
for prose.
We need to decide what is list vs prose.
For About the role: likely prose paragraphs.
Responsibilities: list of duties (multiple bullet points). We'll make
- each.
Requirements: Basic Qualifications list: each bullet.
Qualifications: Preferred Qualifications list.
Skills: maybe not.
Benefits: list of benefits? Could be prose but we can make list.
Pay: list of salary ranges per location; could be list.
We must preserve ALL substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail.
We need to include all details from the posting, except boilerplate.
Let's extract sections.
First, gather About the role content:
From description:
"Amazon's Worldwide Grocery Stores - Growth & Development team is hiring for a Sr. Program Manager, Vendor Management position. As a Sr. Program Manager for Vendor Management, you will set and enforce the financial terms that govern how we engage, compensate, and hold accountable the service providers who keep our stores running - and build the partnerships with those providers that set them up to succeed. You will run the RFPs that determine which vendors earn our business, negotiate the contracts that protect us when things do not go as planned, own the process that validates whether a vendor's rate increase request is actually justified, and engage directly with service providers to understand their business and create the conditions for a win-win relationship. Every time one of our vendors shows up at a Whole Foods Market or Daily Shop location, there is a contract behind that visit - defining the rates, the scope, and appropriate metrics to support the business. This role owns that contract infrastructure across 600+ grocery locations."
Then "Here Is What Makes This Role Stand Out" bullet-like paragraphs:
- "You are the owner, not the approver. You do not route contracts to someone else to negotiate - you lead the negotiations, draft the terms, and own the outcomes across R&M vendor relationships for Whole Foods Market and Daily Shop locations."
- "Your work protects the business at scale. Every contract template you improve, every unjustified rate increase you reject, and every RFP you execute with rigor makes the entire vendor management system more defensible and more cost-efficient across a 600+ location portfolio."
- "You will see the spend, not just the invoices. This role comes with direct visibility into R&M vendor spend trends, trade-level cost drivers, and budget impact analysis - so your decisions are grounded in data, not just process."
- "You will improve and scale the frameworks, not just follow them. The RFP process documentation, the rate validation workflow, the contract compliance tracking system - these foundations exist and you will own them, sharpen them, and evolve them as the portfolio grows."
- "You sit at the center of legal, procurement, and operations. You will bring Indirect Procurement, Strategic Procurement, Legal, and Facilities Leadership to the table - and make sure every vendor decision has the right stakeholders aligned and moving at pace."
- "You build partnerships that deliver. Holding vendors accountable and setting them up to succeed are not competing goals - they are the same goal. You will engage directly with service providers, understand their business, and create the win-win conditions that make vendors want to perform. The strongest contracts are the foundation of strong partnerships, and you will build both."
We can combine these into prose or list. Since it's about the role, we can make prose paragraphs.
Now Responsibilities: The "Key job responsibilities" section lists bullet points:
- Lead contract negotiations and manage the full RFP lifecycle for R&M trades.
- Own the Rate Increase Validation Process - formalizing and strengthening the evaluation mechanism that ensures every vendor rate increase request is reviewed against consistent legitimacy criteria and market benchmarks.
- Maintain 100% contract status visibility for all active R&M vendors - tracking expiration timelines, renewal requirements, and compliance across Corrigo.
- Partner with Facilities Operations and cross-functional stakeholders to ensure preventive maintenance configurations in Corrigo align with contracted scopes of work, SLA requirements, and program standards.
- Lead business reviews with Indirect Procurement and Facilities leadership - facilitating alignment on contract priorities, RFP activity, and vendor cost trends.
- Own and continuously evolve the RFP Process framework, including timelines, Scope of Work (SOW) review with stakeholders, RFP Abstract templates, and the Vendor Management/Indirect Procurement stakeholder RACI.
- Own portfolio-level spend analysis and vendor performance monitoring to identify cost-saving opportunities - bringing the contract compliance, rate benchmarking, and spend trend data that Indirect Procurement cannot fully replicate - and partnering with IP and Strategic Procurement to validate findings and drive action.
Also "A day in the life" could be considered responsibilities but it's more descriptive; we could include as prose under responsibilities or as separate? The instruction says use sections only when posting has real specific content. "A day in the life" is specific content; we could incorporate into responsibilities as prose or maybe as its own subsection? But we only have predefined headings; we could add as prose under Responsibilities.
Thus Responsibilities will include the bullet list plus the day-in-life description.
Now Requirements: Basic Qualifications list:
- 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
- 5+ years of work in a procurement organization, performing vendor management, contract management, negotiating complex purchases, and bidding experience
- Experience managing and negotiating contracts and vendor relationships
- Experience using financial models, KPIs, and data analysis to inform business decisions with proven business impact (e.g., financial savings, operational improvements, or customer benefits)
- Experience developing, reviewing, and managing Statements of Work (SOW), including defining project scope, deliverables, timelines, and criteria for construction or facilities projects.
Now Qualifications: Preferred Qualifications list:
- 2+ years of driving process improvements experience
- Experience in reviewing, drafting, and negotiating commercial contracts
- Experience in accounts receivable or account payable, or experience designing and implementing controls or experience performing audits over financial reporting environment
- Experience working with CMMS software, or experience in similar environments
- Experience with procurement platforms such as Coupa
- Experience building RFP frameworks, process documentation, or SOPs in a program management context
Now Benefits: The posting includes:
- "Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs)."
- "Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave."
- Also maybe "Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits." but we can drop the link.
Thus benefits list: sign-on payments, RSUs, health insurance details, 401(k) matching, paid time off, parental leave.
We could make a list.
Now Pay: The posting includes multiple location salary ranges:
- USA, IL, Chicago - 115,600.00 - 160,000.00 USD annually
- USA, NJ, JERSEY CITY - 127,200.00 - 185,000.00 USD annually
- USA, TN, Nashville - 104,100.00 - 155,400.00 USD annually
- USA, TX, AUSTIN - 115,600.00 - 160,000.00 USD annually
- USA, WA, Seattle - 115,600.00 - 160,000.00 USD annually
We should preserve all.
Now we need to output HTML fragment only, no /, no markdown.
We'll produce something like:
About the role
...
Responsibilities
- ...
...
A day in the life ...
maybe.
But we need to decide if we put day-in-life as separate after list.
Similarly for Requirements and Qualifications.
Benefits:
- ...
Pay: - ...
We must not include empty sections.
Now ensure we preserve all details.
Let's craft About the role paragraph(s). Could be two paragraphs: first intro, then "Here Is What Makes This Role Stand Out" content.
We'll combine into maybe two elements.
Now Responsibilities: list bullet points as above. Then day-in-life paragraph.
Day-in-life content: "Your morning might start with a vendor rate increase request - pulling spend trends and drafting a response that either validates the increase or documents why it does not hold up
for prose. We need to decide what is list vs prose. For About the role: likely prose paragraphs. Responsibilities: list of duties (multiple bullet points). We'll make
- each.
Requirements: Basic Qualifications list: each bullet.
Qualifications: Preferred Qualifications list.
Skills: maybe not.
Benefits: list of benefits? Could be prose but we can make list.
Pay: list of salary ranges per location; could be list.
We must preserve ALL substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail.
We need to include all details from the posting, except boilerplate.
Let's extract sections.
First, gather About the role content:
From description:
"Amazon's Worldwide Grocery Stores - Growth & Development team is hiring for a Sr. Program Manager, Vendor Management position. As a Sr. Program Manager for Vendor Management, you will set and enforce the financial terms that govern how we engage, compensate, and hold accountable the service providers who keep our stores running - and build the partnerships with those providers that set them up to succeed. You will run the RFPs that determine which vendors earn our business, negotiate the contracts that protect us when things do not go as planned, own the process that validates whether a vendor's rate increase request is actually justified, and engage directly with service providers to understand their business and create the conditions for a win-win relationship. Every time one of our vendors shows up at a Whole Foods Market or Daily Shop location, there is a contract behind that visit - defining the rates, the scope, and appropriate metrics to support the business. This role owns that contract infrastructure across 600+ grocery locations."
Then "Here Is What Makes This Role Stand Out" bullet-like paragraphs:
- "You are the owner, not the approver. You do not route contracts to someone else to negotiate - you lead the negotiations, draft the terms, and own the outcomes across R&M vendor relationships for Whole Foods Market and Daily Shop locations."
- "Your work protects the business at scale. Every contract template you improve, every unjustified rate increase you reject, and every RFP you execute with rigor makes the entire vendor management system more defensible and more cost-efficient across a 600+ location portfolio."
- "You will see the spend, not just the invoices. This role comes with direct visibility into R&M vendor spend trends, trade-level cost drivers, and budget impact analysis - so your decisions are grounded in data, not just process."
- "You will improve and scale the frameworks, not just follow them. The RFP process documentation, the rate validation workflow, the contract compliance tracking system - these foundations exist and you will own them, sharpen them, and evolve them as the portfolio grows."
- "You sit at the center of legal, procurement, and operations. You will bring Indirect Procurement, Strategic Procurement, Legal, and Facilities Leadership to the table - and make sure every vendor decision has the right stakeholders aligned and moving at pace."
- "You build partnerships that deliver. Holding vendors accountable and setting them up to succeed are not competing goals - they are the same goal. You will engage directly with service providers, understand their business, and create the win-win conditions that make vendors want to perform. The strongest contracts are the foundation of strong partnerships, and you will build both."
We can combine these into prose or list. Since it's about the role, we can make prose paragraphs.
Now Responsibilities: The "Key job responsibilities" section lists bullet points:
- Lead contract negotiations and manage the full RFP lifecycle for R&M trades.
- Own the Rate Increase Validation Process - formalizing and strengthening the evaluation mechanism that ensures every vendor rate increase request is reviewed against consistent legitimacy criteria and market benchmarks.
- Maintain 100% contract status visibility for all active R&M vendors - tracking expiration timelines, renewal requirements, and compliance across Corrigo.
- Partner with Facilities Operations and cross-functional stakeholders to ensure preventive maintenance configurations in Corrigo align with contracted scopes of work, SLA requirements, and program standards.
- Lead business reviews with Indirect Procurement and Facilities leadership - facilitating alignment on contract priorities, RFP activity, and vendor cost trends.
- Own and continuously evolve the RFP Process framework, including timelines, Scope of Work (SOW) review with stakeholders, RFP Abstract templates, and the Vendor Management/Indirect Procurement stakeholder RACI.
- Own portfolio-level spend analysis and vendor performance monitoring to identify cost-saving opportunities - bringing the contract compliance, rate benchmarking, and spend trend data that Indirect Procurement cannot fully replicate - and partnering with IP and Strategic Procurement to validate findings and drive action.
Also "A day in the life" could be considered responsibilities but it's more descriptive; we could include as prose under responsibilities or as separate? The instruction says use sections only when posting has real specific content. "A day in the life" is specific content; we could incorporate into responsibilities as prose or maybe as its own subsection? But we only have predefined headings; we could add as prose under Responsibilities.
Thus Responsibilities will include the bullet list plus the day-in-life description.
Now Requirements: Basic Qualifications list:
- 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
- 5+ years of work in a procurement organization, performing vendor management, contract management, negotiating complex purchases, and bidding experience
- Experience managing and negotiating contracts and vendor relationships
- Experience using financial models, KPIs, and data analysis to inform business decisions with proven business impact (e.g., financial savings, operational improvements, or customer benefits)
- Experience developing, reviewing, and managing Statements of Work (SOW), including defining project scope, deliverables, timelines, and criteria for construction or facilities projects.
Now Qualifications: Preferred Qualifications list:
- 2+ years of driving process improvements experience
- Experience in reviewing, drafting, and negotiating commercial contracts
- Experience in accounts receivable or account payable, or experience designing and implementing controls or experience performing audits over financial reporting environment
- Experience working with CMMS software, or experience in similar environments
- Experience with procurement platforms such as Coupa
- Experience building RFP frameworks, process documentation, or SOPs in a program management context
Now Benefits: The posting includes:
- "Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs)."
- "Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave."
- Also maybe "Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits." but we can drop the link.
Thus benefits list: sign-on payments, RSUs, health insurance details, 401(k) matching, paid time off, parental leave.
We could make a list.
Now Pay: The posting includes multiple location salary ranges:
- USA, IL, Chicago - 115,600.00 - 160,000.00 USD annually
- USA, NJ, JERSEY CITY - 127,200.00 - 185,000.00 USD annually
- USA, TN, Nashville - 104,100.00 - 155,400.00 USD annually
- USA, TX, AUSTIN - 115,600.00 - 160,000.00 USD annually
- USA, WA, Seattle - 115,600.00 - 160,000.00 USD annually
We should preserve all.
Now we need to output HTML fragment only, no /, no markdown.
We'll produce something like:
About the role
...
Responsibilities
- ... ...
A day in the life ...
maybe. But we need to decide if we put day-in-life as separateafter list. Similarly for Requirements and Qualifications. Benefits:
- ...
- ...
elements. Now Responsibilities: list bullet points as above. Then day-in-life paragraph. Day-in-life content: "Your morning might start with a vendor rate increase request - pulling spend trends and drafting a response that either validates the increase or documents why it does not hold up