Global Vendor Management Lead - Grocery Operations

Amazon

Austin (TX)

On-site

USD 116,000 - 160,000

Full time

9 days ago
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Job summary

Amazon's Worldwide Grocery Stores - Growth & Development team is hiring for a Sr. Program Manager, Vendor Management in Austin, TX. You will set and enforce financial terms with service providers, lead RFPs, negotiate contracts, and own the vendor-management infrastructure across 600+ locations.

You will work with Legal, Procurement, and Operations to ensure win-win partnerships, contract compliance, and cost efficiency. The role emphasizes data-driven decisions and end-to-end program leadership.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of program or project management experience.
  • Experience using data and metrics to determine and drive improvements.
  • Experience owning program strategy, end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership.
  • 5+ years of work in a procurement organization, performing vendor management, contract management, negotiating complex purchases, and bidding experience.
  • Experience managing and negotiating contracts and vendor relationships.
  • Experience using financial models, KPIs, and data analysis to inform business decisions with proven business impact.
  • Experience developing, reviewing, and managing Statements of Work (SOW), including defining project scope, deliverables, timelines, and criteria for construction or facilities projects.

Responsibilities

  • Lead contract negotiations and manage the full RFP lifecycle for R&M trades.
  • Own the Rate Increase Validation Process - formalizing and strengthening the evaluation mechanism that ensures every vendor rate increase request is reviewed against consistent legitimacy criteria and market benchmarks.
  • Maintain 100% contract status visibility for all active R&M vendors - tracking expiration timelines, renewal requirements, and compliance across Corrigo.
  • Partner with Facilities Operations and cross-functional stakeholders to ensure preventive maintenance configurations in Corrigo align with contracted scopes of work, SLA requirements, and program standards.
  • Lead business reviews with Indirect Procurement and Facilities leadership - facilitating alignment on contract priorities, RFP activity, and vendor cost trends.
  • Own and continuously evolve the RFP Process framework, including timelines, Scope of Work (SOW) review with stakeholders, RFP Abstract templates, and the Vendor Management/Indirect Procurement stakeholder RACI.
  • Own portfolio-level spend analysis and vendor performance monitoring to identify cost-saving opportunities - bringing the contract compliance, rate benchmarking, and spend trend data that Indirect Procurement cannot fully replicate - and partnering with IP and Strategic Procurement to validate findings and drive action.

Skills

Program management
Data analysis
Contract management
Vendor management
RFP process
Cross-functional leadership
Financial modeling
SOW development

Tools

Coupa
CMMS

Job description

Amazon's Worldwide Grocery Stores - Growth & Development team is hiring for a Sr. Program Manager, Vendor Management in Austin, TX. You will set and enforce financial terms with service providers, lead RFPs, negotiate contracts, and own the vendor-management infrastructure across 600+ locations.

You will work with Legal, Procurement, and Operations to ensure win-win partnerships, contract compliance, and cost efficiency. The role emphasizes data-driven decisions and end-to-end program leadership.

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