Sr. Transportation Procurement Mgr, AWS Cloud Logistics, Procurement

Job description

AWS Cloud Logistics (ACL) is looking for a talented, driven, and highly analytical, Transportation Procurement Manager with a hunger for driving change and impact in sourcing transportation providers in NALA (North and Latin America).

The successful candidate will have strong analytical and communication skills, and have a passion for using data to drive business decisions. The candidate will thrive by providing data-driven decision support and business intelligence that is timely, accurate, and actionable.

Key job responsibilities

Provide ACL leadership with visibility to internal and external factors that can impact ACL's ability to secure transportation capacity at the best rate to support rack built and delivery.

Manage procurement RFP’s, RFQ’s, and RFI’s for inbound and outbound freight in the NALA region.

Support Global RFP by communicating regional needs and assessing transportation providers' capability to meet regional expectations.

Drive cost savings through competitive bidding, commercial negotiations, and rate benchmarking, using tools and industry knowledge that aligns with market competition.

Build relationships with cross-functional stakeholders (legal, tax, risk management, business units) to enable global procurement support, including project facilitation, tracking, risk escalation, and best practice sharing.

Develop and maintain supplier performance metrics (delivery, , cost) through scorecards and quarterly business reviews to improve supplier performance and strengthen partnerships.

Conduct supplier spend analysis and reporting by category, region, and supplier to establish spend visibility and identify optimization opportunities.

Benchmark rate information versus historic pricing and versus competition.

Perform supplier spend analysis, including reporting to establish visibility of spend patterns by category, region, and supplier.

A day in the life

Daily check-ins with Operations

alignment on capacity needs and demand forecasts

AI-Powered Data Analysis

utilize AI to trends 18-month historical pricing data on the key lanes. Compare rates and benchmark against market.

Launching Regional RFPs

identify the need to map new lanes, source pricing events using our sourcing tool aligned with LSP strategy.

Engage LSPs on market dynamics, emerging risks, and rate positioning strategy.

Cross-Functional Alignment Meeting

Active participant in meetings with Finance, Operations, Legal, and Claims.

About the team

We are customer obsessed in our approach to sourcing transportation for ACL. We move at an extremely fast pace, making hundreds of decisions aligned with global strategy while leveraging inputs from Operations, Security, and Finance. Our team is motivated to be exceptionally well-informed during LSP discussions. At ACL, we are building the future of transportation sourcing for the industry through industry knowledge, strategic tools, and customer-centric listening.