IT Supply Chain Category Manager: Strategy & Suppliers

Amazon Inc.; Nashville (TN); Presencial; USD 77.000 - 116.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Amazon Inc. in Nashville is seeking a seasoned Supply Chain Manager II to lead the Supplier Center of Excellence. You will own supplier relationships, develop category strategies, and drive cost, quality, and supply security across IT equipment categories.

You’ll partner with IT engineering, procurement, and business partners to deliver value through data-driven spend analysis, risk management, and end-to-end delivery, while mentoring teams and expanding supplier readiness.

Formación

• 3+ years of program or project management experience.
• 3+ years cross-functional work with tech and non-tech teams.
• 3+ years using data and metrics to drive improvements.
• 2+ years of supply chain experience.
• Bachelor's degree.
• Advanced Excel skills (Pivot Tables, VLOOKUP) and SQL.
• Experience defining program requirements and data-driven improvements.
• 3+ years delivering end-to-end results and reporting to leadership.
• 3+ years driving process improvements.
• Experience stakeholder management across levels.
• Experience building processes, PM schedules.

Responsabilidades

• Serve as supply chain SME for IT equipment within a category, and manage those categories from a procurement, readiness, supplier performance and risk standpoint.
• Develop Category Strategies, product roadmaps and other planning to improve supply agility and resilience, supplier coverage, diversification, value and security of supply. Requires collaboration and alignment with other stakeholders including IT engineering team, Product Management and other Supply Chain teams.
• Be responsible for supplier relationships including supplier performance, capability development, capacity planning, risk identification and mitigation.
• Interact with business partners to develop, engage and lead supplier relationships for creating the greatest value in cost, security of supply, risk management, and innovation.
• Engage with Suppliers in a detailed, hands on approach to support every day, operational requirements related to inventory readiness, changes in components and technology, reporting, OTIF and other metrics
• Support execution of sourcing strategies in collaboration with other sourcing teams and negotiate and manage contract compliance with suppliers and internal stakeholders
• Keep abreast of changing business requirements and market conditions, and manage suppliers and contracts to maintain value and competitiveness
• Perform spend analysis based on a variety of relevant information, prepare financial models, identify opportunities for efficiency gains and cost savings, and present business case and recommendations to internal business partners
• Support the strategic goals of the business partners; act as a ‘consultant’ to help achieve those objectives. Be recognized by business partners for supporting their strategy and driving value
• Lead or participate in development of policies and procedures, process efficiency, and innovation for related programs
• Participate in implementation of new procurement systems and technology
• Network externally to facilitate competitive intelligence including best practices, emerging / potential sources of competitive advantage, market pricing, and benchmarking

Conocimientos

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional collaboration

Data & metrics analysis

Program / project management

End-to-end delivery

Process improvement

Supplier relationship management

Negotiation

Leadership

Strategic thinking

Change management

Educación

Bachelor's degree

Herramientas

Excel

SQL

Descripción del empleo

Amazon Inc. in Nashville is seeking a seasoned Supply Chain Manager II to lead the Supplier Center of Excellence. You will own supplier relationships, develop category strategies, and drive cost, quality, and supply security across IT equipment categories.

You’ll partner with IT engineering, procurement, and business partners to deliver value through data-driven spend analysis, risk management, and end-to-end delivery, while mentoring teams and expanding supplier readiness.