Strategic Sourcing Manager, Global Corporate Procurement

Amazon • Arlington, VA

5d • Onsite

About The Position

Join our Global Corporate Procurement team and shape how we source the products, services, and solutions that power Amazon's operations worldwide. As a Global Strategic Sourcing Manager, you'll partner with senior leaders across the company to develop innovative sourcing strategies that drive measurable impact on our business, reduce costs, and enable our teams to scale rapidly. We're seeking someone who thinks strategically about long-term value, builds trusted relationships with internal and external partners, and communicates the power of smart sourcing decisions to leaders at all levels. You'll work across diverse business units and supplier relationships to optimize performance, quality, and efficiency while ensuring we're making decisions that benefit our customers, employees, partners, and the world.

Requirements

• Experience in an indirect procurement function at a multinational corporation
• 5+ years of relevant strategic sourcing including vendor negotiations, global contract management, process improvement, operational and financial analysis experience
• 5+ years of experience managing spend categories in Real Estate & Facilities including: Design & Construction, Integrated Facilities Management, and associated Hard/Soft Services (Food & Beverage, Janitorial, Mail room, MRO, Transportation, etc.)

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor's degree, or Master's degree
• Experience translating customer needs into business requirements
• Ability to assess risk and concisely explain complex issues to principal business owners
• 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

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute global sourcing strategies that align with business plans, goals, and objectives across multiple business lines and spend categories, leveraging supplier relationships to optimize performance, quality, efficiency, and cost.
• Build and maintain trusted partnerships with internal business leaders and external suppliers by establishing enduring relationships, developing deep commodity knowledge, and understanding strategic priorities and requirements across the organization.
• Conduct competitive analysis and supplier evaluation using industry cost models, benchmarking data, and spend pattern analysis to inform sourcing strategy development and identify opportunities for optimization.
• Drive sourcing outcomes through the strategic use of requests for proposals, bid evaluation, contract analysis, negotiations, and supplier consolidation to deliver measurable results and value.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including business, finance, Legal, Tax, Risk, and Information Security to identify savings opportunities, mitigate third-party risks, and optimize total cost of ownership and return on investment.

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
• Education Level: Associate degree