Senior Category Manager - Power Infrastructure & Grid Services, Power and Utilities, Global Pro
Listed on 2026-07-20
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Energy/Power Generation
Operations Management, Energy Engineer, Electrical Engineering, Energy Management/ Efficiency
Overview
Description
Want to shape how one of the world's largest logistics networks powers its next chapter from keeping critical operations running to building the resilient energy infrastructure of tomorrow?
Our team powers everything from robotic sortation centers to last-mile delivery stations. We're looking for a strategic procurement leader to source, negotiate, and scale onsite power infrastructure microgrids, prime power systems, backup generators, voltage sag protection, and grid services reducing downtime, lowering cost to serve, and improving speed to serve for hundreds of millions of customers.
You'll develop and execute category sourcing strategies for onsite power resiliency and prime power across Amazon's network managing ~700 MW of capacity deployments across 300+ sites over two years. You'll negotiate complex multi-year agreements (Cap Ex, Energy-as-a-Service, Hybrid) with institutional-scale energy companies in a supply-constrained market with 15–18 month equipment lead times.
You'll shape our grid services strategy unlocking revenue through demand response, energy arbitrage, and utility market participation, transforming backup assets from passive insurance into active value creators. You'll define how Amazon approaches distributed energy, grid independence, and next-gen power solutions building the playbook where one doesn't exist, navigating diverse regulatory environments and multi-decade financial commitments.
We operate with urgency, embrace ambiguity as opportunity, and build for long-term impact. If you want to solve infrastructure challenges at unmatched scale, negotiate deals that move markets, and create strategy with no precedent this is your role.
Key job responsibilities- Develop and execute category sourcing strategies for onsite power infrastructure including backup generators, prime power, microgrids, battery storage, voltage sag protection, and controllers to reduce downtime and improve resiliency across Amazon's global operations network.
- Lead complex, multi-year contract negotiations (Cap Ex, Energy-as-a-Service, Hybrid) with energy infrastructure OEMs, EPC providers, and microgrid integrators.
- Build financial models (NPV, TCO, payback) to evaluate contracting pathways and deployment decisions, translating technical complexity into clear recommendations for senior leadership.
- Manage strategic supplier relationships including conducting QBRs, tracking performance KPIs (uptime, response time, cost competitiveness), securing capacity reservations, and maintaining competitive tension.
- Mitigate supply chain risk by monitoring lead times, securing capacity commitments, and developing contingency strategies to protect site launch timelines.
- Identify grid services and utility market opportunities including demand response, energy arbitrage, virtual power plant programs to generate revenue across the deployed asset portfolio.
- Provide energy infrastructure market intelligence including supply constraints, regulatory shifts, technology trends, and pricing dynamics.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, legal, finance, design & construction, sustainability, and safety teams to align procurement with business strategy.
No two days look alike. You might start reviewing a supplier capacity proposal for 30 sites, shift into financial modeling to compare ownership vs. Energy-as-a-Service pathways, then join a cross-functional call with engineering and legal to finalize microgrid integrator terms. Later, you're flagging supply chain risks to upcoming launches, then evaluating a grid services pilot worth millions annually. You'll balance long-range strategy with urgent tactical decisions, translate complex energy dynamics into clear recommendations, and move fast when opportunities emerge.
Expect ambiguity, autonomy, and impact in equal measure.
The Power & Utilities team owns sourcing of critical energy infrastructure across EV Charging, Renewables & Storage, Power Infrastructure, and Utilities Supply enabling Operations to run, grow, and decarbonize at scale.
This is a pivotal moment. Energy demand is surging, utility interconnection queues stretch to 4-8 years, and the bring-your-own-power paradigm is reshaping how large-scale operations source electricity. How we build our onsite power portfolio today defines Amazon's operational resilience for decades to come.
You'll have autonomy to innovate, impact both bottom and top line, and be supported to grow through lateral, geographical, or functional moves.
Basic Qualifications- Bachelor's degree in supply chain, business, engineering, finance or related technical or quantitative field
- 5+ years of relevant strategic sourcing including vendor negotiations, global contract management, process improvement, operational and financial analysis experience
- Experience using data and metrics to back up assumptions, evaluate outcomes, and make data-driven decisions
- Experience working cross-functionally across several teams both…
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