Senior Category Manager - Global Health & Safety Procurement, Global Procurement Organization; GPO

Senior Category Manager

At Amazon, we're working to be the most customer-centric company on earth. If you'd like to help us build the place to find and buy anything online, this is your chance to make history. We are seeking a Senior Category Manager to strategically source products and services for North America Customer Fulfillment (NACF) Procurement to work on the Global Health & Safety Procurement team.

The person in this role will coordinate with several teams across Amazon and will interact with our most important suppliers to satisfy organizational requirements. The person in this position will work and partner with multiple teams to develop and execute category sourcing strategies, deliver savings and improve productivity across the category.

Key job responsibilities include establishing category sourcing strategies, leading cross-functional strategic sourcing projects, negotiating with suppliers, and executing contracts to optimize Amazon's competitive position. The role also involves driving appropriate relationships with category suppliers, managing category suppliers to proactively identify, monitor, and optimize opportunities, acting as a market intelligence provider regarding categories, driving category suppliers in Supplier Relationship Management activities to mitigate risk, improve performance, and add value to Amazon, identifying, achieving, and reporting on savings and value targets for category sourcing activities, aligning with internal customers and understanding the business application of the category, negotiating and implementing supplier agreements/contracts by working with cross-functional stakeholders and suppliers to reach agreement on contract terms and conditions, helping develop long-term department strategies and influencing the cross-company project development and delivery processes and standards, and developing value engineering procurement mechanism to reuse or recapitalize assets.

Travel domestically 10-20% of the time.

Key performance indicators include earning the trust of key stakeholders to drive alignment with the business, creating a category strategy in conjunction with internal customers to ensure there is a comprehensive, unified approach for the category, achieving yearly cost saving or value targets appropriate to the category aligned with annual budget processes, defining and reporting on key metrics that measure effectiveness of supply and cost savings, and championing one of the sourcing expertise.

About the team:
This role can be located in Houston, TX, Arlington, VA.

Basic qualifications include 5+ years of program or project management experience, 5+ years of supply chain 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, and a Bachelor's degree.

Preferred qualifications include 2+ years of driving process improvements experience, and a Master's degree, or MBA in business, operations, human resources, adult education, organizational development, instructional design or related field.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.

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