About this role
Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides a highly reliable, scalable, and low-cost cloud platform that powers thousands of businesses in over 190 countries. AWS’ Infrastructure Supply Chain & Procurement (ISCaP) organization works to deliver cutting-edge solutions to source, build and maintain our socially responsible data center supply chains. We are a team of highly-motivated, engaged, and responsive professionals who enable the core sustainable infrastructure of AWS. Come join our team and be a part of history as we deliver results for the largest cloud services company on Earth! As a Procurement Category Manager, you will create and implement sourcing strategies for at least one services category and collaborate with internal business partners and suppliers to drive efficiencies, reduce risks, and costs for Amazon. You will develop mechanisms and metrics to hold suppliers accountable for performance and delivery. You will drive results through methods that include competitive bidding, negotiating, and analyzing data and market trends for your category. The ideal candidate thinks long term, drives multiple initiatives, communicates appropriately and influences customers and suppliers at all levels. You will be collaborative, but also work with significant autonomy. To be successful in this role you will be highly analytical; think strategically and globally; exhibit curiosity; have a sense of urgency to meet customer timelines, succeed in a fast-paced environment; and have a high level of customer focus and business judgement. It will be critical to embrace and model Amazon’s Leadership Principles. Responsibilities include but are not limited to the following: - Manage a category within the Security Technology, Guarding, and Repair (MRO) domains - Achieve cost savings through bidding and negotiations - Plan and execute effective negotiation strategies with vendors. - Analyze category data and metrics to drive Procurement category strategies - Understand trends in customers’ needs and concerns, across categories and regions, to influence customers’ priorities - Build strong relationship with customers and ensure customer satisfaction - Lead supplier selection process across multiple categories, internal teams, and regions, and create longer-term supplier selection strategies for management - Lead business reviews to discuss best practices and issues and to ultimately improve supplier performance and strengthen business partnerships - Provide support throughout the contracting process, as well as management of contracts post-execution