Global MRO & Facilities Procurement Manager

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

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.