Sr. Category Manager, FMS, BBM

Q-Express Documents Transport; United Arab Emirates; On-site; AED 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global ecommerce company is seeking a Procurement Manager in the United Arab Emirates. The ideal candidate will develop sourcing strategies, manage supplier performance, and collaborate with various teams to optimize purchasing processes. A Bachelor’s degree and at least 3 years of relevant experience are required. This role emphasizes innovation and sustainability in operations.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of purchasing experience.
• 3+ years of program or project management experience.
• Experience using data and metrics to determine and drive improvements.

Responsibilities

• Identify, develop and deliver long-term sourcing strategies.
• Build and maintain relationships with stakeholders.
• Lead supplier performance management.

Skills

Purchasing experience

Project management

Data analysis

Process improvements

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree or MBA

Job description

At Amazon, we're working to be the most customer-centric company on earth. We are seeking a Procurement Manager to create world wide strategies for Base Building Reliability (BBR) for multiple business units and operation centers. The person in this role will coordinate and partner with leaders and teams globally across Amazon and lead and interact with our most important professional suppliers to satisfy organizational requirements.

Key job responsibilities

• Identify, develop and deliver long‑term sourcing strategies, lead key initiatives with cross‑functional teams; drive the decision‑making process of the category roadmap with senior leadership.
• Build relationships and alignment with internal and external stakeholders.
• Lead supplier performance management, including improving sustainability & social responsibility.
• Drive alignment and establish success criteria for common or shared goals around savings and sustainability.
• Act as a market intelligence provider regarding categories; anticipate strategic opportunities and keep key stakeholders informed.
• Coordinate and collaborate with local teams to deploy and manage the implementation of your defined strategies.
• Candidate must be able to travel, up to 10%.

A day in the life

You will deliver market leading low‑cost, innovative and sustainable equipment/services to help our Operations teams succeed and delight Amazon.com customers with speed, selection and convenience.

You will collaborate to seek inputs and manage outputs from our external suppliers as well as internal partners across Design & Operations Engineering, Workplace Health & Safety, Finance and Reliability/Maintenance Engineering.

You may have to adapt and sometimes take different roles from strategy development to project management to rapidly meet customer needs.

You will focus on deep diving categories to unlock value and help deploy emerging technologies at scale for Operations.

About the team

We are customer inclusive and take a data‑informed approach to scalable globally for all our customers.

We are Safety‑first, innovation‑first team; we experiment new ideas and challenge old norms.

We believe in strategic partnerships to unlock optimal value and cost of ownership across our categories.

We lead on & advocate Design for Sustainability to help reduce the carbon footprint of our Operations buildings.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of purchasing experience
• 3+ years of program or project management experience
• Experience using data and metrics to determine and drive improvements
• Experience owning program strategy, end‑to‑end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership
• Bachelor's degree
• 2+ years of driving process improvements experience
• Master's degree, or MBA in business, operations, human resources, adult education, organizational development, instructional design or related field

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