Strategic Sourcing Manager, Global Corporate Procurement

Amazon • Arlington, VA

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About The Position

Are you a Strategic Sourcing superstar looking to make a big impact? As Amazon rapidly becomes the world's largest consumer of corporate services, our Global Corporate Procurement team is seeking a Strategic Sourcing Manager to join us in Arlington, VA. Strategic Sourcing Managers, working under the general direction of more senior team members, manage strategic sourcing engagements as a central team supporting a wide range of Amazon and subsidiary business units. In this pivotal role, you'll design innovative sourcing strategies and lead sourcing engagements across a wide range of business units. Your mission? Improve performance, optimize efficiency, ensure top-notch quality, and enable new initiatives to launch and scale with lightning speed. Demonstrating a passionate commitment to procurement excellence, you will flawlessly handle and execute sourcing initiatives, communicating efficiently and effectively with stakeholders across various business units. Adept at juggling multiple priorities, you will thrive in the fast-paced, dynamic environment, contributing to both short-term tactical and long-term strategic efforts. Does this sound like your next great challenge? If you're passionate about finding the right products, goods and services at the right time from the right suppliers, we want to hear from you. Come join our fast-paced, innovative team and help Amazon make history in Corporate Procurement. Apply today! A day in the life As a Strategic Sourcing Manager, you will manage complex sourcing projects from start to finish. This will involve closely engaging with a diverse array of internal and external stakeholders to identify sourcing strategy - that balances business needs, effort, and efficiencies.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree, or BS degree
• 5+ years of relevant strategic sourcing experience
• Experience translating customer needs into business requirements
• 5+ years of procurement experience
• Ability to assess risk and concisely explain complex issues to principal business owners
• Experience working in a large, global, highly matrixed organization
• Strong analytical skills including the ability to quickly synthesize, distill and draw conclusions on large amounts of disparate data
• Ability to manage multiple simultaneous projects requiring frequent communication, organization, time management, and problem-solving skills
• Excellent written and oral communication skills

Nice To Haves

• MBA, or Bachelor's degree in management, business administration, economics, engineering, marketing

Responsibilities

• Review spend data and market trends for key indirect spend categories
• Participate in cross-functional team meetings to align on sourcing priorities and requirements
• Conduct market research and prepare RFP documents for upcoming sourcing projects
• Manage the RFP process, evaluate proposals, negotiate commercial deal terms and contracts, and create award recommendations
• Create and contribute to the development of category management plans
• Provide procurement analytics and insights to support data-driven decision making
• Stay up-to-date on industry trends and best practices in strategic sourcing
• Negotiate with C-level managers in the supplier community

Benefits

• Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets.
• The base pay for this position ranges from $136,900/year in our lowest geographic market up to $203,700/year in our highest geographic market.
• Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
• Amazon is a total compensation company.
• Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits.
• For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits .
• Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees