Senior Category Manager, AIS Supply Chain/IPS
Application for the Senior Category Manager, AIS Supply Chain/IPS role at Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Description
Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides a highly reliable, scalable, and low-cost cloud platform that powers thousands of businesses in over 190 countries.
AWS' Infrastructure Supply Chain & Procurement (ISCaP) organization works to deliver innovative solutions to source, build and maintain our socially responsible data center supply chains.
We are a team of highly-motivated, engaged, and responsive professionals who enable the core sustainable infrastructure of AWS.
Come join our team and be a part of history as we deliver results for the largest cloud services company on Earth.
Responsibilities
Manage a complex category within the Maintenance, Repair, and Operation (MRO) domains.
Achieve cost savings through bidding and negotiations.
Analyze category data and metrics to drive procurement category strategies.
Understand trends in customers' needs and concerns across categories and regions to influence customers' priorities.
Lead supplier selection process across multiple categories, internal teams, and regions, and create longer-term supplier selection strategies for management.
Ensure knowledge of supply market and supplier capabilities, technically and geographically.
Develop mechanisms and metrics to track supplier performance related to delivery, quality, and cost.
Create supplier scorecards to measure and track supplier performance.
Lead business reviews to discuss best practices and issues and ultimately improve supplier performance and strengthen business partnerships.
Innovate within the procurement space, automating and/or improving tools or processes to better support the procurement lifecycle.
Provide support throughout the contracting process, as well as management of contracts post-execution.
Basic Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Business, Engineering, or a related field.
Experience in data analysis using tools such as Excel, Pivot Tables, SQL, Tableau, or equivalent.
Experience in high-volume manufacturing operations or sourcing environments.
Experience with Continuous Improvement and Six Sigma methodologies.
Experience in global supply chain management, managing cross-functional teams in a fast-paced consumer electronics product company.
Experience in category management.
Preferred Qualifications
Master's degree in Business Administration, Finance, Economics, Computer Science, or a related field.
Experience in data centers, infrastructure service providers, or related technology companies.
Experience in negotiations with global suppliers with a proven track record in cost reduction.
Experience in procurement practices working with engineering, supply chain and Tier 1 OEM partners.
Experience practicing best-in-class procurement processes (category management, benchmarking, should-cost models, RFX, reverse auction, contracting, or equivalent).
EEO Statement
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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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