Strategic Sourcing Specialist , Global Corporate Procurement (GCP)

Amazon • Arlington, VA

8d • $84,500 - $147,900 • Onsite

About The Position

Amazon Global Corporate Procurement (GCP) is seeking high-performing individuals to serve as the go-to resource for early stage and highly confidential businesses across Amazon. This role will drive cost efficiencies and help internal teams scale quickly. The Special Projects Strategic Sourcing Specialist supports a wide variety of functions (Source-to-Pay, negotiation, vendor management, process improvement, supply chain) for internal businesses that need to rapidly scale from small projects to multi-million dollar opportunities. Strategic Sourcing Specialists, working under the general direction of more senior team members, manage strategic data analysis to identify new customers and drive sourcing engagements across Amazon teams and subsidiaries. In this role, you'll design innovative sourcing and vendor management strategies and lead sourcing engagements across a wide range of business units. Your mission is to improve performance, optimize efficiency, ensure top-notch quality, and enable new initiatives to launch and scale with lightning speed. Demonstrating a passionate commitment to solving innovative problems, you will help identify new business opportunities for the Sourcing team, handle and execute sourcing initiatives, and vendor management; 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. This role supports complex sourcing projects from start to finish, involving close engagement with a diverse array of internal and external stakeholders to identify sourcing strategy that balances business needs, effort, and efficiencies. Our Global Corporate Procurement (GCP) special projects team engages with early stage Amazon teams that do not otherwise have dedicated procurement, business development, or vendor management support. This team focuses on the unique needs of early stage teams to increase cost efficiencies and acts as a value-added accelerator. The team serves as internal consultants and embedded procurement resources across multiple categories and industries.

Requirements

• 2+ years of relevant strategic sourcing and category management in indirect categories such as professional services, support or maintenance spend, supply chain, forecasting, manufacturing, sourcing/procurement, or vendor management experience
• Strong analytical skills including the ability to quickly synthesize, distill and draw conclusions on large amounts of disparate data

Nice To Haves

• MBA, or MS degree
• Experience practicing best-in-class procurement processes (category management, benchmarking, should-cost models, RFX, reverse auction, contracting, or equivalent)
• Experience understanding needs of business and end customers and translating them into right solutions
• 4+ years of drafting and negotiating the legal terms in a broad range of standard commercial contracts experience
• Experience being responsible/leading large and complex negotiations
• Experience handling multiple projects simultaneously
• Can show strong verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to assess risk and concisely explain complex issues to principal business owners

Responsibilities

• Identify new internal customers and sourcing opportunities utilizing analysis from multiple sources
• Review spend data, contract pipelines, and market trends for key spend categories
• Contribute to cross-functional team meetings to align on Source-to-Pay priorities and requirements
• Contribute to ongoing customer and vendor management, including development of category and vendor management plans
• Partner with business, finance, and legal leaders to identify and implement Procure-to-Pay best practices including savings and controllership
• Work closely with engineers, scientists, technical stakeholders, and leadership to ensure products and services meet the needs of the business
• 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
• Provide procurement analytics and insights to support data-driven decision making
• Stay up-to-date on industry trends and best practices in strategic sourcing
• Track spend and consumption across key agreements. Identify associated risks

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: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed