Category Manager, AIS Supply Chain- IPS: Procurement

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Austin (TX); On-site; USD 80,000 - 139,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Data Services, Inc. in Austin, TX is seeking an experienced Procurement Category Manager to lead complex MRO and Facility Management categories within AWS's IPS procurement organization.

You will drive supplier selection, negotiate long-term value, and build category strategies that enhance reliability and reduce total cost of ownership. You will analyze market data, foster cross-functional collaboration across regions, and lead business reviews with suppliers.

Qualifications

• Experience leading procurement in MRO and facility management categories.
• Proven ability to negotiate contracts and drive cost reductions.
• Strong analytical skills and supplier performance management.

Responsibilities

• Manage a complex category within the Maintenance, Repair, and Operation (MRO) and Facility Management domains.
• Achieve cost savings through bidding and negotiations, drive collaboration to achieve long term value delivery.
• Obtain market intelligence, analyze category data and metrics to drive Procurement category strategies.
• Understand trends in customers’ needs and concerns, across categories and regions, to influence customers’ priorities.
• Lead supplier selection process across multiple sub-categories, internal teams, and regions, and create longer-term supplier selection strategies for management.
• Ensure you are knowledgeable about the supply market, new innovations and supplier capabilities, technically and geographically.
• Ensure you are knowledgeable about sustainability, diversity, in-country value and have experience developing category strategies to incorporate same.
• Develop mechanisms and metrics to track supplier performance related to delivery, quality, and cost.
• Create supplier scorecards to measure and track supplier performance.
• Lead business reviews to discuss best practices and issues and to ultimately improve supplier performance and strengthen business partnerships.
• Innovate within the procurement space, automating and/or improving tools or processes to better support the Procurement Lifecycle.
• Provide support throughout the contracting process, as well as SRM and management of contracts post-execution.

Skills

Procurement

Category management

Negotiations

Market intelligence

Supplier management

Data analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

Description

AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. In other words, we’re the people who keep the cloud running. We support all AWS data centers and all of the servers, storage, networking, power, and cooling equipment that ensure our customers have continual access to the innovation they rely on. We work on the most challenging problems, with thousands of variables impacting the supply chain — and we’re looking for talented people who want to help.

You’ll join a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, operations managers, and other vital roles. You’ll collaborate with people across AWS to help us deliver the highest standards for safety and security while providing seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost for our customers. And you’ll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.

Amazon Web Services provides a highly reliable, scalable, and low-cost cloud platform that powers thousands of businesses in over 190 countries. AWS’ Infrastructure Supply Chain & Procurement organization works to deliver solutions to source, build and maintain our socially responsible data center supply chains. We are a team of highly-motivated, engaged, and responsive professionals who enable the core sustainable infrastructure of AWS. Come join our team and be a part of history as we deliver results for the largest cloud services company on Earth!

The IPS Procurement Category Management Org is responsible for the procurement of all third party provided services required for the operation of our Data Center infrastructure globally, including Colo and Edge facilities for externally delivered services not provided by the facility owner. The team is responsible for the identification, on boarding and performance management of suppliers as well as developing category strategies, conducting competitive tendering processes, supplier negotiations and the preparation of associated Work Orders.

The team is structured into three regions, each led by a regional manager, with each regional team composed of category managers with responsibility for the management of specific areas of spend within the region and a cohort of procurement specialists who support the category managers. The category management approach facilitates a strategic approach to procurement by facilitating in depth market analysis coupled with a cross functional approach to identify supplier and associated contracting options which are focused on meeting the particular needs of the business. Category management moves beyond traditional transactional based purchasing negotiations to provide a strategic approach to longer term, sustainable cost reductions, reducing risk and increasing resiliency in the supply base and facilitating innovation from within the supply base that the business can leverage.

While cost reduction will always be a key focus of the team, the principle cynosure of the team is the delivery of services that are keenly focused on increasing reliability and supporting enhanced availability through robust relationships which support continuity of operations. As service and quality levels can vary greatly, principally based on the skill set within a supplier local organization, the regional structure facilitates tailoring of category strategies to meet local market considerations and closely monitor supplier performance at the local level.

Key job responsibilities

• Manage a complex category within the Maintenance, Repair, and Operation (MRO) and Facility Management domains.
• Achieve cost savings through bidding and negotiations, drive collaboration to achieve long term value delivery.
• Obtain market intelligence, analyze category data and metrics to drive Procurement category strategies.
• Understand trends in customers’ needs and concerns, across categories and regions, to influence customers’ priorities.
• Lead supplier selection process across multiple sub-categories, internal teams, and regions, and create longer-term supplier selection strategies for management.
• Ensure you are knowledgeable about the supply market, new innovations and supplier capabilities, technically and geographically.
• Ensure you are knowledgeable about sustainability, diversity, in-country value and have experience developing category strategies to incorporate same.
• Develop mechanisms and metrics to track supplier performance related to delivery, quality, and cost.
• Create supplier scorecards to measure and track supplier performance.
• Lead business reviews to discuss best practices and issues and to ultimately improve supplier performance and strengthen business partnerships.
• Innovate within the procurement space, automating and/or improving tools or processes to better support the Procurement Lifecycle.
• Provide support throughout the contracting process, as well as SRM and management of contracts post-execution.

Travel domestic and international as required.

About The Team

AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

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Company

Amazon Data Services, Inc.

Job ID: A10556632