Senior Category Manager - Global Health & Safety Procurement, Global Procurement Organization (GPO)

Job description

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 products and services for North America Customer Fulfillment (NACF) Procurement to work on the Global Health & Safety Procurement team. 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 position will work and partner with multiple teams to develop and execute category sourcing strategies, deliver savings and improve productivity across the category.

Key job responsibilities

- Establish category sourcing strategies, lead cross-functional strategic sourcing projects, 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

- 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 value targets for category sourcing activities

- Align with internal customers and understand the business application of the category

- Negotiate and implement supplier agreements/contracts by working with cross-functional stakeholders and suppliers to reach agreement on contract terms and conditions

- Help develop long-term department strategies and influence the cross-company project development and delivery processes and standards

- Develop value engineering procurement mechanism to reuse or recapitalize assets

Travel domestically 10-20% of the time

Key Performance Indicators

- Earn the trust of key stakeholders to drive alignment with the business

- Create a category strategy in conjunction with internal customers to ensure there is a comprehensive, unified approach for the category

- Achieve yearly cost saving or value targets appropriate to the category aligned with annual budget processes

- Define and report on key metrics that measure effectiveness of supply and cost savings

- Champion one of the sourcing expertise

About the team

This role can be located in Houston, TX, Arlington, VA