Description

Amazon Global Supply Chain and Transportation Procurement (GSCTP) is seeking a Senior Procurement Manager overseeing vendor sourcing and management responsibilities. This role will focus on leading vendor negotiations, developing consistent negotiation methodology, and ensuring alignment with internal stakeholder teams. A successful candidate will be able to deliver on improved financial results, delivery performance, capacity and sustainability efforts. This individual will be expected to manage multiple vendors concurrently and directly, working with a team that contributes significantly to overall transportation and supply chain strategy within the International Global Mile space. Internal and external relationship management is paramount, along with strong analytical and problem-solving skills. In this role you will be responsible for delivering successful negotiations at scale ($50MM or more in total spend), working with senior leadership of external vendors and providing thought-leadership within procurement and several Amazon stakeholder teams.

Key job responsibilities

• Negotiation: Delivering improved financial performance through large scale negotiations for services contracts

• Leadership: Leading stakeholder and partner teams indirectly to build a track record of consistently delivering valuable projects

• Strategy: Design and implement strategy for individual procurement projects and the overall procurement function to support all the goals of the business, not just financial goals.

• Bias for Action: Delivering end-to-end contract projects, working through the many obstacles along the way and planning for unexpected challenges to maintain momentum.

• Communication: Communicating expectations and requirements with external and internal leadership teams, writing well-reasoned and data-driven proposals, performing your own data analysis as necessary.

• Technical Problem Solving: Utilizing problem-solving skills to work through difficult challenges, including the full procurement cycle from sourcing, negotiations, legal requirements and internal systems updates.

A day in the life

This role will work with large export parcel suppliers with varying degrees of complexity. This role will work closely with internal stakeholder teams, across export operations, exports finance, business, controllership, planning and supply chain design/deployment and will also work with external stakeholders in the management of assigned accounts.

About the team

This team is responsible for managing 3rd party relationships in the export parcel space.

Amazon offers a full range of benefits that support you and eligible family members, including domestic partners and their children. Benefits can vary by location, the number of regularly scheduled hours you work, length of employment, and job status such as seasonal or temporary employment. The benefits that generally apply to regular, full-time employees include:

1. Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage

2. Maternity and Parental Leave Options

3. Paid Time Off (PTO)

4. 401(k) Plan

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or an advanced degree in supply chain, business, engineering, finance or related technical or quantitative field

• Significant procurement experience

• Wealth of experience of working cross functionally across several teams

• Proven transportation and supply chain experience

• Multi-million dollar contract negotiation experience

• Experience of creating, defining, and implementing procurement strategy

• Experience using Microsoft Excel to manipulate and analyze large sets of data

• Experience with Tableau and other data visualization tools

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in Business Administration or Supply Chain

• 5+ years of experience with advanced Microsoft Excel functionality

• Experience working with business process systems and bid/sourcing management software (SalesForce, Coupa and Ariba, etc)

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