Sr. Category Manager, FMS, BBM

Description

At Amazon, we’re working to be the most customer-centric company on earth. We are seeking a Procurement Manager to create world wide strategies for Base Building Reliability (BBR) for multiple business units and operation centers. The person in this role will coordinate and partner with leaders and teams globally across Amazon and lead and interact with our most important professional suppliers to satisfy organizational requirements.

This leader will work with RME, Design and Construction, World Wide Design, and Safety to develop and execute category sourcing strategies, deliver savings/value and improve productivity across the category.

Key job responsibilities
Identify, develop and deliver long term sourcing strategies, lead key initiatives with cross-functional teams; drive the decision-making process of the category roadmap with senior leadership.

Build relationships and alignment with internal and external stakeholders

Lead supplier performance management; including improving sustainability & social responsibility;

Drive alignment and establish success criteria for common or shared goals around Savings, and Sustainability

Act as a market intelligence provider regarding categories; anticipate strategic opportunities and keep key stakeholders informed

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

Candidate must be able to travel, up to 10%

A day in the life
You will deliver market leading low-cost, innovative and sustainable equipment/services to help our Operations teams succeed and delight Amazon.com customers with speed, selection and convenience

You will collaborate to seek inputs and manage outputs from our external suppliers as well as internal partners across Design & Operations Engineering, Workplace Health & Safety, Finance and Reliability/Maintenance Engineering

You may have to adapt and sometimes take different roles from strategy development to project management to rapidly meet customer needs

You will focus on deep diving categories to unlock value and help deploy emerging technologies at scale for Operations

About the team

We are customer inclusive and take a data-informed approach to scalable globally for all our customers

We are Safety-first, innovation-first team; we experiment new ideas and challenge old norms

We believe in strategic partnerships to unlock optimal value and cost of ownership across our categories

We lead on & advocate Design for Sustainability to help reduce the carbon footprint of our Operations buildings

Basic Qualifications

– 3+ years of purchasing experience
– 3+ years of program or project management experience
– Experience using data and metrics to determine and drive improvements
– Experience owning program strategy, end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership
– Bachelor’s degree

Preferred Qualifications

– 2+ years of driving process improvements experience
– Master’s degree, or MBA in business, operations, human resources, adult education, organizational development, instructional design or related field

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