Strategic Sourcing Manager, Global Corporate Procurement

Amazon; City Of London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global corporation is seeking a Strategic Sourcing Manager to enhance sourcing strategies and negotiate partnerships in Professional Services. The role includes managing sourcing activities, optimizing supplier performance, and collaborating with senior leaders. Candidates should have strategic sourcing experience and a BS/BA degree. This position offers a dynamic opportunity to influence procurement processes in a multinational setting.

Qualifications

• Experience with best-in-class procurement practices.
• Strong written and oral communication skills.
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.

Responsibilities

• Establish strong relationships with internal business stakeholders.
• Optimize performance, quality, and cost with suppliers.
• Evaluate supplier competencies and competitive positioning.

Skills

Strategic sourcing experience

Negotiation skills

Analytical thinking

Project management

Education

BS/BA Degree

Job description

Overview

Amazon is seeking a Strategic Sourcing Manager to join the Global Corporate Procurement (GCP) Team. This is an opportunity to contribute to Amazon’s growth by identifying sourcing strategies and negotiating sustainable, long-term partnerships in Professional Services. The role involves leading complex sourcing initiatives, influencing senior business leaders, and applying data-driven decision making to optimize supplier performance, quality, and cost.

Key job responsibilities

• Establish strong relationships with internal business stakeholders; build understanding of strategic direction, requirements and priorities across assigned suppliers and/or spend categories.
• Dive deep across multiple business units to optimize performance, quality, and cost with the supplier base.
• Evaluate supplier core competencies and competitive positioning using industry cost models and benchmarking; use insights to inform and support sourcing strategy development.
• Manage sourcing fundamentals and supplier engagement activities including RFx, spend pattern analysis, contract analysis, bid evaluation, negotiations, and supplier consolidation.
• Identify sourcing opportunities by leveraging spend analysis tools and consolidate requirements across categories, suppliers, and geographies.
• Collaborate with business and finance leaders to identify and drive savings and total cost of ownership improvements.
• Provide guidance to internal stakeholders on procurement processes and best-practice tools, such as category management, supplier evaluation and supplier diversity.

About the team

Key coverage areas: Marketing, Professional Services, Employee Services, Technology, Logistics, Real Estate and Facilities services.

Basic Qualifications

• Demonstrated strategic sourcing experience, including indirect procurement in a multinational corporation.
• Experience with best-in-class procurement practices (category management, benchmarking, RFx, contracting, etc.).
• Experience leading complex sourcing initiatives across Professional Services.

Preferred Qualifications

• BS/BA Degree
• Skilled negotiator with experience in setting negotiation strategies and leading negotiations
• Knowledge of commercial agreement structures and key legal terms
• Analytical thinker with ability to derive insights from large data sets
• Customer-focused self-starter with high integrity and ethics
• Experience in a large, global, highly matrixed organization
• Strong analytical skills to synthesize and draw conclusions from disparate data
• Ability to manage multiple simultaneous projects with strong communication, organization, time management and problem-solving skills
• Excellent written and oral communication skills

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