Strategic Sourcing Specialist, Global Corporate Procurement

Amazon; London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon is seeking a Strategic Sourcing Specialist in London to manage sourcing engagements and develop innovative strategies. This role involves collaboration with stakeholders, conducting market research, and contributing to category management plans. Ideal candidates will have a strong background in strategic sourcing and excellent analytical skills.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated strategic sourcing experience.
• Strong analytical skills including the ability to synthesize data.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Support complex sourcing projects from start to finish.
• Review spend data and market trends for key indirect spend categories.
• Manage the RFP process and negotiate commercial deal terms.

Skills

Strategic sourcing

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Education

BS/BA Degree

MBA/MS degree

Job description

Strategic Sourcing Specialist, Global Corporate Procurement

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Description

Are you a Strategic Sourcing superstar looking to make a big impact?

Description

Are you a Strategic Sourcing superstar looking to make a big impact?

As Amazon rapidly becomes the world's largest consumer of corporate services, our Global Corporate Procurement team is seeking a Strategic Sourcing Specialist to join us in London.

Strategic Sourcing Specialists, working under the general direction of more senior team members, manage strategic sourcing engagements as a central team supporting a wide range of Amazon and subsidiary business units.

In this pivotal role, you'll design innovative sourcing strategies and lead sourcing engagements across a wide range of business units. Your mission? Improve performance, optimize efficiency, ensure top-notch quality, and enable new initiatives to launch and scale with lightning speed.

Demonstrating a passionate commitment to procurement excellence, you will flawlessly handle and execute sourcing initiatives, communicating efficiently and effectively with stakeholders across various business units. Adept at juggling multiple priorities, you will thrive in the fast-paced, dynamic environment, contributing to both short-term tactical and long-term strategic efforts.

Strategic Sourcing Specialists will be considered for the Global Corporate Procurement Rotational Program. This program offers career development through exposure to multiple procurement functions. Strategic Sourcing Specialists will: gain experience in various procurement categories, learn supplier risk management techniques, develop contract negotiation skills, build a network across the company, receive mentorship from senior leaders.

Does this sound like your next great challenge? If you're passionate about finding the right products, goods and services at the right time from the right suppliers, we want to hear from you.

Come join our fast-paced, innovative team and help Amazon make history in Corporate Procurement.

Apply today!

Key job responsibilities

As a Strategic Sourcing Specialist, you will support complex sourcing projects from start to finish. This will involve closely engaging with a diverse array of internal and external stakeholders to identify sourcing strategy - that balances business needs, effort, and efficiencies.

• Review spend data and market trends for key indirect spend categories
• Participate in cross-functional team meetings to align on sourcing priorities and requirements
• Conduct market research and prepare RFP documents for upcoming sourcing projects
• Manage the RFP process, evaluate proposals, negotiate commercial deal terms and contracts, and create award recommendations
• Contribute to the development of category management plans
• Provide procurement analytics and insights to support data-driven decision making
• Stay up-to-date on industry trends and best practices in strategic sourcing
  
  

A day in the life

About The Team

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

Basic Qualifications

• Demonstrated strategic sourcing experience.
• BS/BA Degree.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated best-in-class procurement practices (category management, benchmarking, should-cost models, RFX, reverse auction, contracting, etc.).
• MBA/MS degree.
• Extremely customer-focused and takes the time to understand the needs of the business.
• Ability to assess risk and concisely explain complex issues to principal business owners.
• Experience working in a large, global, highly matrixed organization.
• 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.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
  
  

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Company - Amazon UK Services Ltd.

Job ID: A2990043

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Not Applicable

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Purchasing and Supply Chain

• Industries

  Software Development

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