Category Manager for Global Procurement Organization

4 weeks ago

Bellevue, Washington, United States Amazon Full time
About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Category Manager to join our Global Procurement Organization. As a Category Manager, you will be responsible for qualifying, developing, and managing our key material handling supplier base.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Partner with Worldwide and Regional Procurement teams to qualify, manage, and source key MHE components.
  • Develop and manage strong strategic relationships with our key suppliers and business partners to reduce cost, compress project lifecycles, advance solution quality, and improve capital efficiencies.
  • Implement strategic sourcing strategies to optimize costs and ensure continuity of supply, ensuring cost-efficient supply of critical items.
  • Facilitate suppliers' understanding of Amazon global policies, equipment design standards, budget, and cost targets, and service and quality expectations.
  • Drive suppliers' continuous improvement and development program in support of quality, delivery, and cost performance metrics.
  • Support common global supplier selection processes, global supplier development processes, and continued managed expansion of the global supplier base.
  • Manage common global supplier metrics and data reporting to support the achievement of continuous cost improvement targets.
  • Support Lean/Cost Out programs to reduce CapEx spend and optimize capital spend efficiency.
  • Lead special projects on a worldwide basis to reduce costs, improve efficiencies, improve performance of strategic suppliers, and improve project implementation results.

Requirements

We are looking for a detail-oriented and strategic thinker with excellent communication skills and the ability to influence, negotiate, and develop relationships at all levels of the organization. The ideal candidate will have:

  • Bachelor's degree in supply chain, business, engineering, finance, or related technical or quantitative field.
  • Experience in stakeholder management, dealing with multiple stakeholders at varied levels of the organization.
  • Experience working cross-functionally with tech and non-tech teams.
  • Experience building processes, project management, and schedules.
  • Travel up to 30% of the time.
  • 4+ years of experience in a sourcing or supply chain management or equivalent role.

Preferred Qualifications

We are looking for candidates with a Master's degree and experience in defining and implementing process improvement initiatives using data and metrics. Additionally, experience in implementing repeatable processes and driving automation or standardization is preferred. Proven experience in supplier development/vendor management/strategic sourcing, especially for custom-engineered solutions, is also preferred.

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