Strategic Sourcing Specialist, Global Corporate Procurement

Amazon • Arlington, VA

113d • $84,500 - $147,900

About The Position

As Amazon rapidly becomes the world's largest consumer of corporate services, our Global Corporate Procurement team is seeking a Strategic Sourcing Specialist. Strategic Sourcing Specialists, 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.

Requirements

• BS/BA Degree.
• 3+ years of strategic sourcing experience.

Nice To Haves

• MBA/MS degree.
• 3+ years of technology procurement experience.
• 3+ years of in-depth experience in best-in-class procurement practices (category management, benchmarking, should-cost models, RFX, reverse auction, contracting, etc.) ideally in Technology procurement.
• Extremely customer-focused and takes the time to understand the needs of the business.
• Passionate self-starter with the highest integrity and ethics.
• Strong negotiator with proven experience in setting negotiation strategies and conducting negotiations.
• Working knowledge of the basic types of commercial agreement structures and the function and purpose of key legal terms.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Support complex sourcing projects from start to finish.
• Engage with a diverse array of internal and external stakeholders to identify sourcing strategy.
• 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.
• 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.

Benefits

• Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits.
• Equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree