Category Manager, Services, Global Procurement Organization (GPO)

Amazon • Nashville, TN

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About The Position

At Amazon, we're working to be the most customer-centric company on earth. If
you'd like to help us build the place to find and buy anything online, this is
your chance to make history.

We are seeking a Category Manager to strategically source Services for our
global Customer Fulfillment network. The person in this role will coordinate
with several teams across Amazon and will interact with our most important
suppliers to satisfy organizational requirements. The person in this will work
and partner with multiple teams to develop and execute category sourcing
strategies, deliver savings, and improve productivity across the category.

A day in the life
• You will deliver market leading low-cost, innovative, and sustainable service
solutions to help our Operations teams succeed and delight Amazon.com customers
with value, selection and convenience. Additionally, you will undertake
initiatives to ensure continuity of service supply.
• You will collaborate to seek inputs and manage outputs from our external
suppliers as well as internal cross-functional partners.
• You may have to adapt and sometimes take different roles from strategy
development to project management to rapidly meet customer needs.
• You will focus on deep diving categories to unlock value and help deploy
services at scale for Operations.

About the team
- We are customer inclusive and take a data-informed approach to scalable
globally for all our customers
- We are Safety-first, innovation-first team; we experiment new ideas and
challenge old norms
- We believe in strategic partnerships to unlock optimal value and cost of
ownership across our categories
- We lead on & advocate for Sustainability to help reduce the carbon footprint
of our Operations buildings

Requirements

• 3+ years of program or project management experience
• 3+ years of working cross functionally with tech and non-tech teams experience
• 3+ years of defining and implementing process improvement initiatives using data and metrics experience
• 2+ years of supply chain experience
• Bachelor's degree
• Knowledge of Excel (Pivot Tables, VLookUps) at an advanced level and SQL
• Experience defining program requirements and using data and metrics to determine improvements
• Candidate must be able to travel, up to 15%

Nice To Haves

• 3+ years of driving end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership experience
• 3+ years of driving process improvements experience
• Experience in stakeholder management, dealing with multiple stakeholders at varied levels of the organization
• Experience building processes, project management, and schedules

Responsibilities

• Establish category sourcing strategies, lead cross-functional strategic sourcing teams, negotiate with suppliers and execute contracts to optimize Amazon’s competitive position.
• Drive appropriate relationships with category suppliers, with a principal objective of achieving the optimal solution and cost of ownership that meets the business’ goals supported by a culture of continuous improvement with performance benchmarks in use.
• Manage category suppliers to proactively identify, monitor and optimize opportunities.
• Act as a market intelligence provider regarding categories; anticipate strategic opportunities and keep key stakeholders informed.
• Drive category suppliers in Supplier Relationship Management activities to mitigate risk, improve performance and add value to Amazon.
• Identify, achieve and report on savings and sustainability value targets for category sourcing activities.
• Align with internal customers and understand the business application of the category.
• Build the category metrics model based on input from the category team to track and monitor performance to the category strategy; measure actual vs planned savings and advise team of trends, escalate issues and own action plans.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage
• Maternity and Parental Leave Options
• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• 401(k) Plan
• 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
• parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level