Senior Category Manager, Power and Utilities, Global Procurement Organization (GPO)

Job description

We are the Global Procurement Organization, and we're building the team that will define how one of the world's largest companies generates, stores, and consumes clean energy. We're looking for a senior procurement leader and people manager to lead our Renewables, Storage, and Mobility portfolio spanning solar, wind, battery storage, and hydrogen across North America, Latin America, Europe, and the Middle East.

This is a rare opportunity to lead a high performing team of category managers across fast evolving pillars globally:

Lead a team of six category managers each owning complex, high growth categories including solar, wind, battery storage, and hydrogen fuel solutions

Own a portfolio of some of the most strategically important procurement categories in the company

Shape the clean energy transition from rooftop solar panels to hydrogen refueling stations, your team will deploy the infrastructure that powers last mile delivery, fulfillment, and transportation

Build the playbook for emerging categories battery storage, wind energy, and hydrogen are scaling rapidly and you'll set the strategy for how we source and deploy them globally

Turn energy into a revenue stream lead your team in piloting virtual power plants, energy arbitrage, and grid services programs that transform deployed assets from cost centers into profit generators

If you're a people leader who thrives on coaching high performers, setting strategic direction across complex global categories, and driving measurable environmental and financial impact, this is the role.

Key job responsibilities

Lead, coach, and develop a team category managers across solar, wind, battery storage, and hydrogen, setting clear goals and enabling career growth

Define and drive the multi year sourcing strategy across multiple sub categories and four global regions, aligning procurement execution with business, sustainability, and financial objectives

Oversee portfolio based tenders, supplier consolidation, and contract negotiations across capital purchase, power purchase agreement, and operating lease structures

Build and present business cases and financial models to senior leadership, translating technical complexity into clear investment recommendations

Drive revenue generation initiatives including virtual power plants, energy export, and grid services programs to transform the portfolio from cost center to profit center

Own the supplier ecosystem strategy, reducing the vendor base while increasing multi region capable partners and maintaining competitive tension

Lead category consolidation efforts, bringing fragmented procurement activities under unified management to unlock savings and improve speed

Monitor global market dynamics including regulatory shifts, supply chain constraints, and technology evolution to proactively adjust sourcing strategies

Partner cross functionally with engineering, legal, finance, sustainability, and construction to ensure alignment and execution across all regions

A day in the life

Your morning might kick off with a one on one coaching a team member through a complex contract negotiation, followed by a leadership review where you present the portfolio's financial performance and strategic roadmap. After lunch, you're facilitating a cross regional sync aligning your European and North American leads on a consolidated tender approach. Later, you're reviewing a business case from your hydrogen lead on a new refueling pilot, then closing the day with a supplier executive meeting to discuss long term capacity commitments.

You're constantly balancing people development, strategic direction, and stakeholder engagement across time zones.

About the team

You'll join the Power and Utilities team within Amazon's Global Procurement Organization. We manage the full energy lifecycle for Amazon's worldwide operations across five areas: utilities supply and audits, power infrastructure, on site renewables and storage, EV charging infrastructure, and hydrogen mobility solutions. This role leads the renewables, storage, and mobility pillars, making it one of the most impactful positions on the team.

We're a global team that is scaling fast and rewriting how large scale operations source, generate, and consume power.