Strategic Sourcing Manager, Global Corporate Procurement

Description

Amazon is seeking a Strategic Sourcing Manager to join the Global Corporate Procurement (GCP) Team. This is an exciting opportunity to be a part of a team that has a meaningful and measurable impact on Amazon’s success. At Amazon, our vision is to be Earth's most customer-centric company. Our passion for invention leads us to pioneer and globalize new businesses and customer offerings daily.

As we rapidly become the world’s largest consumer of services in many categories, the Corporate Procurement team is fueling our explosive growth by identifying innovative sourcing strategies and negotiating sustainable, long-term partnerships. We are seeking a skilled Strategic Sourcing Manager with experience leading complex sourcing initiatives across Employee Services.

• Establishing strong relationships with internal business stakeholders; building a strong understanding of strategic business direction, requirements and priorities across assigned suppliers and/or spend categories
• Dive deep across multiple business units to leverage our supplier base with the goal of optimizing performance, quality, and cost
• Evaluate supplier core competencies and competitive positioning using industry cost models and benchmarking; leveraging key-insights to inform and support the strategic sourcing strategy development process
• Managing the fundamentals of sourcing and supplier engagement activities including RFx, spend pattern analysis, contract analysis, bid evaluation, negotiations, and supplier consolidation
• Identifying sourcing opportunities by leveraging spend analysis tools and engage with stakeholders to consolidate requirements over categories, suppliers and geographies
• Work with business and finance leaders to identify and drive savings and controllership improvements, optimizing the return on investment and total cost of ownership
• Providing guidance to internal stakeholders on procurement processes and best-practice tools, such as category management, supplier evaluation and supplier diversity

Your morning might start with a cross-functional alignment call for an upcoming RFP involving three business units, followed by analyzing bid responses and building a recommendation deck for senior leadership. After lunch, you're on a negotiation call with a strategic supplier's C-suite to finalize contract terms, then pivoting to a spend review with Finance to validate savings actuals against targets. You'll close the day by coaching a business partner through the supplier evaluation framework for an upcoming engagement.

No two days look the same — you'll balance long-range strategic planning with hands-on execution, often managing five or more active sourcing engagements simultaneously across different stages of the lifecycle.

Global Corporate Procurement (GCP) manages Amazon's indirect spend across Employee Services, Marketing, Professional Services, Technology, Logistics, and Real Estate & Facilities. We're a global team of sourcing professionals who combine analytical rigor with creative problem-solving to deliver sustainable value  culture values deep ownership, intellectual curiosity, and a bias for action — we move fast, but we move smart. You'll be joining a team where your work is visible to senior leadership and directly tied to Amazon's bottom line.

• Experience in an indirect procurement function at a multinational corporation
• Proficiency in best-in-class procurement processes, including category management, benchmarking, should-cost modeling, RFx, reverse auctions, and contract development
• Experience managing multiple indirect spend categories, some of which may include the following: IT Software, IT Services, Corporate…