Category Manager, Packaging, Global Procurement Organization (GPO)

Amazon; Dubai; On-site; AED 391,000 - 614,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon in Dubai is seeking a procurement professional to define the packaging category’s sourcing strategy and to source vendors, tools, and processes for a broad stakeholder network across multiple business lines.

The role involves leading cross-functional initiatives, driving supplier performance, and coordinating with local teams to implement strategies while delivering cost and sustainability improvements.

Qualifications

• 3 years of program or project management experience.
• 3 years cross-functional work with tech and non-tech teams.
• 3 years defining and implementing process improvements using data and metrics.
• 2 years of supply chain experience.
• Bachelor's degree.
• Advanced Excel (Pivot Tables, VLookup) and SQL knowledge.
• Experience defining program requirements and using data to drive improvements.
• Experience delivering end-to-end results and communicating with senior leadership.
• Experience in stakeholder management with multiple stakeholders.
• Experience building processes, project management, and schedules.
• Business fluency in Arabic.

Responsibilities

• Develop and deliver long term sourcing strategies; drive category roadmap with regional leadership.
• Drive supplier relationships to achieve optimal cost and performance.
• Lead supplier performance management including sustainability and social responsibility.
• Coordinate with local teams to deploy and manage strategy implementations.

Skills

Program management

Cross-functional collaboration

Data & metrics analysis

Supply chain experience

Stakeholder management

Arabic language

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Excel

SQL

Job description

Amazons Global Procurement Organization tackles business challenges that help internal customers with innovative procurement strategies. We create value in the supply chain strive for optimization and act with one global voice and vision. The Category team owns the strategic relationships with suppliers & internal stakeholders. The team identifies & leads strategic sourcing activities to lower overall total cost of ownership for Amazon operations ensuring equipment & service availability meet business owner requirements. The team develops & negotiates framework agreements to reduce risk & support local teams in project specific needs relevant to category.

This role in the packaging team will have broad responsibility to define the procurement strategy for key items in the packaging category sourcing vendors and innovative tools and processes to support a large network of Amazon stakeholders across multiple business lines.

Key job responsibilities

• Develop and deliver long term sourcing strategies lead key initiatives with cross-functional teams; drive the decision making process of the category roadmap with regional senior leadership
• Drive commercial relationships with suppliers with a principal objective of achieving optimal cost and performance
• Lead supplier performance management including improving sustainability & social responsibility
• Coordinate and collaborate with local teams to deploy and manage the implementation of your defined strategies

A day in the life

• Autonomy to innovate and deliver new approaches that impact the bottom and the top line
• Learn from people with a wide variety of professional backgrounds

About the team

The GPO packaging team provides critical materials and supply chain continuity across risk and business need delivering best-in-class cost quality and sustainble solutions to operations worldwide.

• 3 years of program or project management experience
• 3 years of working cross functionally with tech and non-tech teams experience
• 3 years of defining and implementing process improvement initiatives using data and metrics experience
• 2 years of supply chain experience
• Bachelors degree
• Knowledge of Excel (Pivot Tables VLookUps) at an advanced level and SQL
• Experience defining program requirements and using data and metrics to determine improvements
• Experience in driving end to end delivery and communicating results to senior leadership
• Experience in stakeholder management dealing with multiple stakeholders at varied levels of the organization
• Experience building processes project management and schedules
• Business fluency in Arabic

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