Global Category Strategy Lead

Amazon; Herndon (VA); On-site; USD 163,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon Web Services (AWS) seeks a Senior Global Category Manager to lead the IPS Procurement team responsible for data center maintenance, repair, and ops services, security services and equipment, and EH&S services across the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia Pacific.

You will build scalable category strategies, drive supplier partnerships, and implement automation to improve efficiency while aligning with executive leadership and business objectives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent.
• Experience working and communicating with multiple stakeholders, C-level executives and cross functional teams or equivalent.
• Experience in strategic thinking about business, enterprise software products, and new technology platforms and architectures or equivalent.
• Experience negotiating VP-level contracts with channel partners and agencies.
• Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams including Marketing, Product Management, Customer Service, Operations, Legal, Finance, and Senior Leadership.
• 12+ years of managing and developing high performance teams experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead a global team of procurement managers across regions.
• Develop and execute regional and global category strategies that scale procurement support.
• Build supplier qualification programs, mitigate supply-base risk, and engage key suppliers at the executive level.
• Partner with internal automation teams to optimize procurement processes for efficiency and scale.
• Establish regular business review cadences across regions and leadership to align priorities.
• Define and track metrics to evaluate team effectiveness and drive process improvement.

Skills

Stakeholder management

C-level communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Strategic thinking

Team leadership

Negotiation

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Amazon Web Services (AWS) seeks a Senior Global Category Manager to lead the IPS Procurement team responsible for data center maintenance, repair, and ops services, security services and equipment, and EH&S services across the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia Pacific.

You will build scalable category strategies, drive supplier partnerships, and implement automation to improve efficiency while aligning with executive leadership and business objectives.