Description

This role will manage Consulting and Professional Services for North America, overseeing a wide range of knowledge-based services provided by external experts and suppliers to enhance organizational performance and efficiency.

Amazon's Global Procurement Organization tackles business challenges that help internal customers with innovative procurement strategies. We create value in the supply chain, strive for optimization, and act with one global voice and vision. The Category team owns the strategic relationships with suppliers & internal stakeholders. The team identifies & leads strategic sourcing activities to lower overall total cost of ownership for Amazon operations, ensuring equipment & service availability meet business owner requirements. The team develops & negotiates framework agreements to reduce risk & support local teams in project specific needs relevant to category.

This role in the Category Services team will have broad responsibility to define the procurement strategy for the Consulting and Professional Services category in North America, sourcing vendors and innovative tools and processes to support a large network of Amazon stakeholders across multiple business lines.

Key job responsibilities

Key job responsibilities

• Stakeholder engagement and management.

• Develop and deliver long term sourcing strategies, lead key initiatives with cross-functional teams; drive the decision making process of the category roadmap with regional senior leadership

• Drive commercial relationships with suppliers, with a principal objective of achieving optimal cost and performance

• Lead supplier performance management including improving sustainability & social responsibility

• Coordinate and collaborate with local teams to deploy and manage the implementation of your defined strategies

A day in the life

• Engage with stakeholders and influence business decisions

• Explore the Consulting & Professional Services market to find the optimal suppliers.

• Autonomy to innovate and deliver new approaches that impact the bottom and the top line.

About the team

Global, innovative and business driven team.

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of relevant strategic sourcing and category management in indirect categories such as professional services, support or maintenance spend, supply chain, forecasting, manufacturing, sourcing/procurement, or vendor management experience

• 3+ years of working cross functionally with tech and non-tech teams experience

• 2+ years of program or project management experience

• 3+ years of defining and implementing process improvement initiatives using data and metrics experience

• Experience defining program requirements and using data and metrics to determine improvements

• Knowledge of Excel at an intermediate level (e.g., pivot tables & charts, multiple criteria lookups, nested logical/IF formulas, data cleansing, array formulas, etc.)

• Bachelor's degree

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in stakeholder management, dealing with multiple stakeholders at varied levels of the organization

• 3+ years of driving end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership experience

• 3+ years of driving process improvements experience

• Experience building processes, project management, and schedules

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $77,200/year in our lowest geographic market up to $141,500/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits . This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.