Global Category Manager, Global Corporate Procurement

At Amazon, our vision is to be Earth's most customer and employee-centric company. Our passion for invention leads us to pioneer and globalize new businesses and customer offerings daily. As we rapidly become the world's largest consumer of corporate services in many categories, the Global Corporate Procurement team is seeking a Global Category Manager, Indirect Procurement to join our team in North America. This role will be based out of either Arlington, VA or Austin, Texas.

Global Category Managers play a pivotal role at Amazon, leading strategic sourcing engagements across a wide range of business units to enable new initiatives to launch and scale rapidly. GCMs are expert practitioners in creating competitive environments, and have a strong bias for decision-making rooted in data and analytics. They routinely advise senior Amazon leaders on innovative sourcing strategies that create sustainable, long-term partnerships. They are highly effective communicators, able to articulate the value proposition of partnering with procurement.

Key job responsibilities

Establishing strong relationships with internal business partners; building a robust understanding of strategic business direction, requirements and priorities across assigned suppliers and/or spend categories.

Supporting execution of sourcing events across all indirect spend categories

Delivering savings and increased spend under management by driving adoption of a automated self-service sourcing technology application

Supporting enhancements and the product development roadmap of the self-service sourcing application based upon purchasing history and stakeholder sourcing requirements

Managing the fundamentals of sourcing and supplier engagement activities including RFx, spend pattern analysis, contract analysis, bid evaluation, negotiations, and supplier consolidation.

Working with business and finance leaders to identify and drive savings and controllership improvements, focusing on total cost of ownership.

Providing guidance to internal stakeholders on procurement strategies; maintaining procurement ethics in accordance with Amazon?s global policies.

Basic Qualifications

5+ years of relevant strategic sourcing experience, to include at minimum, 3 years in an indirect procurement function, at a multinational corporation, with global contracts.

5+ years of practicing best-in-class procurement processes (category management, benchmarking, should-cost models, RFX, reverse auction, contracting, etc.).

5+ years with spend categories under management to include three or more of the following: IT Software, IT Services, Corporate Services, Marketing, Contingent labor, Facilities and Real estate, Capital Expenditure and Tail Spend (Indirect Categories).

Preferred Qualifications

Deep knowledge of indirect spend categories

Experience working with procurement technology, tools like Ariba, Coupa

Tenacious negotiator with proven experience in setting negotiation strategies and conducting negotiations.

Strong project management skills, including adhering to stakeholder timelines, and meeting management skills.

Extensive knowledge of the basic types of commercial agreement structures and the function and purpose of key legal terms.

Experienced at assessing risk and concisely explaining complex issues to principal business owners.

Experience working in a large, global, highly matrixed organization, and works easily in multi-business unit project settings; able to facilitate teamwork across corporate boundaries.

Strong analytical and financial skills including the ability to quickly synthesize, distill and draw conclusions on large amounts of disparate data.

Proven written and oral communicator, with strategic, analytical, and interpersonal skills to act as an effective change agent, unlocking barriers to value for priority spend categories.

Ability to manage multiple simultaneous projects requiring frequent communication, organization, time management, and problem-solving skills.

Passionate self-starter with the highest integrity and ethics.

Embraces fact?based decision making; naturally seeks to leverage and/or integrate market data, spend analytics, and cost modeling.

Master?s Degree (MBA/MS) preferred.

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