Procurement Category Manager, Infrastructure Planning and Sourcing

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!

We are seeking a Procurement professional to support the Japan data center operations space.

As a Procurement Category Manager, you will help implement sourcing strategies for MRO services category and collaborate with internal business partners and suppliers to reduce risks and costs for Amazon. You will develop mechanisms and metrics to hold suppliers accountable for performance and delivery. Additionally, you will drive results through methods that include competitive bidding, negotiating, and analyzing data and market trends for your category. You will also create global Procurement processes and tools to drive innovation across teams.

The ideal candidate thinks long term, drives multiple initiatives, and communicates appropriately and influences customers and suppliers at all levels. You must be collaborative, but also work with autonomy. To be successful in this role you must be analytical; think strategically; have a sense of urgency to meet customer timelines; exhibit a strong curiosity and learning drive; succeed in a fast-paced environment; engage and influence key stakeholders; and have a high level of customer focus and business judgement. Also, you must have a demonstrated track record of managing multiple vendors and projects and driving them to completion to meet business objectives. It will be critical to embrace and model Amazon’s Leadership Principles and have an entrepreneurial spirit with a “get it done” mentality.

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Job responsibilities

Responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:

- Manage the Services Sourcing for the assigned MRO/EHS categories.

- Manage and coordinate all customer requirements within the region for category

- Liaise with other category managers for delivery of Goods and Services.

- Achieve cost savings through bidding and negotiations

- Analyze category data and metrics to drive Procurement category strategies

- Understand trends in customers’ needs and concerns, across categories and region, to influence customers’ priorities

- Lead supplier selection process across multiple categories, internal teams, and regions, and create longer-term supplier selection strategies for management

- Ensure you are knowledgeable about the supply market and supplier capabilities, technically and geographically.

- Develop mechanisms and metrics to track supplier performance related to delivery, quality, and cost (Manage the SRM process in the region)

- Create supplier scorecards to measure and track supplier performance

- Lead business reviews to discuss best practices and issues and to ultimately improve supplier performance and strengthen business partnerships

- Innovate within the procurement space, automating and/or improving tools or processes to better support the Procurement Lifecycle

- Provide support throughout the contracting process, as well as management of contracts post-execution

Basic qualifications

- 3+ years of supply chain management, production planning, capacity planning or manufacturing operations experience

- Experience with data analysis tools such as Excel, Pivot Tables, SQL, Tableau, etc.

- Experience with Continuous Improvement and Six Sigma methodologies

- Experience in high-volume operations or sourcing environments

- Experience in global supply chain management, managing cross-functional teams

Preferred qualifications

- Master's degree in Procurement, Business Administration, Finance, Economics or a related field

- Experience in data centers, infrastructure service providers, or related technology companies

- Experience in negotiations with global suppliers with a proven track record in cost reduction

- Experience in procurement practices working with engineering, supply chain and Tier 1 OEM partners

- Experience practicing best-in-class procurement processes (category management, benchmarking, should-cost models, RFX, reverse auction, contracting, or equivalent)

Acknowledgement of country:

In the spirit of reconciliation Amazon acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.

IDE statement:

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