Senior Category Manager, Food Services, Global Procurement Organization (GPO)

Amazon Jobs; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A global e-commerce company is seeking a Senior Category Manager to source Food Services for its Customer Fulfillment network. This role involves establishing category sourcing strategies and managing relationships with suppliers. The ideal candidate has extensive experience in supply chain management, advanced Excel skills, and a track record of leading negotiations. You'll work with multiple teams to drive savings and improve productivity, while fostering innovation to enhance service delivery. Join a dynamic, diverse team and help shape the future of shopping.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel is crucial.
• Experience in supply chain management is essential.
• Proven skills in leading complex negotiations.
• Ability to work cross-functionally is necessary.
• Proficiency in using data to drive improvements.

Responsibilities

• Establish sourcing strategies and lead procurement teams.
• Negotiate with suppliers to optimize costs and performance.
• Manage supplier relationships for performance enhancement.
• Drive cost-saving and sustainability initiatives.
• Align with internal stakeholders for business needs.

Skills

Advanced Microsoft Excel

Negotiation

Supply chain experience

Cross-functional collaboration

Data and metrics analysis

Program management

Problem-solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Job description

At Amazon, we’re working to be the most customer-centric company on earth. If you’d like to help us build the place to find and buy anything online, this is your chance to make history.

We are seeking a Senior Category Manager to strategically source Food Services for our global Customer Fulfillment network. The person in this role will coordinate with several teams across Amazon and will interact with our most important suppliers to satisfy organizational requirements. The person in this will work and partner with multiple teams to develop and execute category sourcing strategies, deliver savings, and improve productivity across the category.

Key job responsibilities

• Establish category sourcing strategies, lead cross-functional strategic sourcing teams, negotiate with suppliers and execute contracts to optimize Amazon’s competitive position.
• Drive appropriate relationships with category suppliers, with a principal objective of achieving the optimal solution and cost of ownership that meets the business’ goals supported by a culture of continuous improvement with performance benchmarks in use.
• Manage category suppliers to proactively identify, monitor and optimize opportunities.
• Act as a market intelligence provider regarding categories; anticipate strategic opportunities and keep key stakeholders informed.
• Drive category suppliers in Supplier Relationship Management activities to mitigate risk, improve performance and add value to Amazon.
• Identify, achieve and report on savings and sustainability value targets for category sourcing activities.
• Align with internal customers and understand the business application of the category.
• Build the category metrics model based on input from the category team to track and monitor performance to the category strategy; measure actual vs planned savings and advise team of trends, escalates issues and own action plans.

A day in the life

• You will deliver market leading low-cost, innovative, and sustainable service solutions to help our Operations teams succeed and delight Amazon.com customers with value, selection and convenience. Additionally, you will undertake initiatives to ensure continuity of service supply.
• You will collaborate to seek inputs and manage outputs from our external suppliers as well as internal cross-functional partners.
• 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 services at scale for Operations.

About the team

• Autonomy to innovate and deliver new approaches that impact the bottom and the top line.
• Grow in a fast-pace environment where every day is day one.
• Surrounded by inspiring and diverse individuals.
• Learn from people with a wide variety of professional backgrounds.
• Opportunity to develop new skills and opportunities through lateral, geographical or functional moves.

Locations

Luxembourg, London, Barcelona

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree
• Knowledge of Microsoft Excel at an advanced level, including: pivot tables, macros, index/match, vlookup, VBA, data links, etc.
• Experience in supply chain
• Experience being responsible/leading large and complex negotiations
• Experience working cross functionally with non-tech teams
• Experience using data and metrics to drive improvements
• Experience in program or project management
• Experience in complex problem solving, and working in a tight schedule environment
• Experience owning program strategy, end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership

Legal & Equal Opportunity

Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Amazon. Please consult our Privacy Notice https://www.amazon.jobs/en/privacy_page to know more about how we collect, use and transfer the personal data of our candidates.

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact our Recruiting Partner.