Amazon · 6 days ago
Strategic Sourcing Manager, Global Corporate Procurement
Arlington, VA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$137K/yr - $204K/yr
5+ years expAmazon is seeking a Global Strategic Sourcing Manager to join their Global Corporate Procurement team. The role involves designing strategic sourcing strategies and leading engagements across various business units to improve performance and optimize efficiency.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)DeliveryE-CommerceFoundational AIRetail
Responsibilities
Able to dive deep across multiple business lines who use similar categories and commodities to leverage our supplier base to optimize performance, quality, efficiency, and cost
Earn trust with internal business partners; establish enduring relationship, build a robust understanding of commodities, strategic business direction, requirements and priorities across suppliers and/or spend categories
Develop global sourcing strategies to deliver against business plans, goals and objectives for internal clients
Evaluate supplier core competencies and competitive positioning using industry cost models and benchmarking analysis; leveraging key-insights to inform and support the Strategic Sourcing strategy development process
Drive results by leveraging RFx, spend pattern analysis, contract analysis, bid evaluation, negotiations, and supplier consolidation
Work with business and finance leaders to identify and drive savings and controllership improvements, optimizing the return on investment and total cost of ownership
Serve as an advisor, facilitator, and educator to internal stakeholders on developing and executing sourcing strategies
Engage the appropriate subject matter experts, including Legal, Tax, Risk, and Information Security, to evaluate and develop strategies to mitigate third party risk
Qualification
Required
Experience in an indirect procurement function at a multinational corporation
Experience managing spend categories that include three or more of the following: IT Software, IT Services, Corporate Services, Marketing, Contingent labor, Facilities and Real estate, Capital Expenditure and Tail Spend (Indirect Categories)
Experience with practicing best-in-class procurement processes (category management, benchmarking, should-cost models, RFX, reverse auction, contracting, etc.)
Bachelor's degree, or BS degree
5+ years of relevant strategic sourcing including vendor negotiations, global contract management, process improvement, operational and financial analysis experience
Preferred
MBA, or Bachelor's degree in management, business administration, economics, engineering, marketing
Experience translating customer needs into business requirements
Ability to assess risk and concisely explain complex issues to principal business owners
Strong analytical skills including the ability to quickly synthesize, distill and draw conclusions on large amounts of disparate data
Ability to manage multiple simultaneous projects requiring frequent communication, organization, time management, and problem-solving skills
Benefits
Equity
Sign-on payments
A full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits
Company
Amazon
Amazon is a tech firm with a focus on e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$8.11BKey Investors
AmazonKleiner Perkins
2023-01-03Post Ipo Debt· $8B
2001-07-24Post Ipo Equity· $100M
1997-05-15IPO
Leadership Team
Douglas J. Herrington
CEO, Worldwide Amazon Stores
Werner Vogels
VP & CTO
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