Job Description
DESCRIPTION
Amazon Global Supply Chain and Transportation Procurement (GSCTP) is seeking a Senior Procurement Manager overseeing vendor sourcing and management responsibilities. This role will focus on leading vendor negotiations, developing consistent negotiation methodology, and ensuring alignment with internal stakeholder teams. A successful candidate will be able to deliver on improved financial results, delivery performance, capacity and sustainability efforts. This individual will be expected to manage multiple vendors concurrently and directly, working with a team that contributes significantly to overall transportation and supply chain strategy within the International Global Mile space. Internal and external relationship management is paramount, along with strong analytical and problem-solving skills. In this role you will be responsible for delivering successful negotiations at scale ($50MM or more in total spend), working with senior leadership of external vendors and providing thought-leadership within procurement and several Amazon stakeholder teams.
Key job responsibilities
- Negotiation: Delivering improved financial performance through large scale negotiations for services contracts
- Leadership: Leading stakeholder and partner teams indirectly to build a track record of consistently delivering valuable projects
- Strategy: Design and implement strategy for individual procurement projects and the overall procurement function to support all the goals of the business, not just financial goals.
- Bias for Action: Delivering end-to-end contract projects, working through the many obstacles along the way and planning for unexpected challenges to maintain momentum.
- Communication: Communicating expectations and requirements with external and internal leadership teams, writing well-reasoned and data-driven proposals, performing your own data analysis as necessary.
- Technical Problem Solving: Utilizing problem-solving skills to work through difficult challenges, including the full procurement cycle from sourcing, negotiations, legal requirements and internal systems updates.
A day in the life
This role will work with large and medium sized North American transload, drayage, yard or other suppliers that support container movements in North America, including cross border providers between Mexico-United States-Canada. This role will work closely with internal stakeholder teams, across import operations, imports finance, business, controllership, planning and supply chain design/deployment and will also work with external stakeholders in the management of assigned accounts.
Expected travel is 20%, with some international travel likely.
About the team
GSCTP is a tenured but growing team of Amazonians that live by Amazon's motto of "work hard, have fun, make history." We are spread across the US and EU, managing a global scope of supply chain services. We are data-driven and thrive in the challenges that our work requires. This direct team is responsible for managing 3rd party relationships in the North American imports space.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor’s or an advanced degree in supply chain, business, engineering, finance or related technical or quantitative field
- Advanced procurement experience
- Experience of working cross functionally across several teams
- Transportation and supply chain experience
- Multi-million dollar contract negotiation experience
- Experience creating, defining, and implementing procurement strategies
- Experience using Microsoft Excel to manipulate and analyze large sets of data
- Experience with Tableau and other data visualization tools
Job Tags
Full time, Contract work,