Senior Category Manager, Food Services, Global Procurement Organization (GPO)

Amazon • Nashville, TN

9d • Onsite

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 Senior Category Manager to strategically source Food 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.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree
• Knowledge of Microsoft Excel at an advanced level, including: pivot tables, macros, index/match, vlookup, VBA, data links, etc.
• Experience in supply chain
• Experience being responsible/leading large and complex negotiations
• Experience working cross functionally with non-tech teams
• Experience using data and metrics to drive improvements

Nice To Haves

• Experience in program or project management
• Experience in complex problem solving, and working in a tight schedule environment
• Experience owning program strategy, end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership

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

• 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
• sign-on payments
• restricted stock units (RSUs)

What This Job Offers

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