Senior AI-Driven Global Transportation Procurement Strategy

Amazon; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 121,000 - 164,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon is seeking a Senior Procurement and Strategy Manager to lead vendor sourcing and management, drive AI-enabled procurement workflows, and partner with internal teams to improve financial results and service quality. This role demands strong negotiation, market intelligence, and cross-functional leadership across a global supply chain network.

The ideal candidate will manage multiple vendors, mentor procurement specialists, and shape transportation procurement strategy aligned with network

Qualifications

• 5+ years of procurement experience.
• Cross-functional work across several teams.
• 5+ years using Microsoft Excel to manipulate and analyze large sets of data.
• Bachelor's degree.
• Experience developing or utilizing AI tools, automation platforms, or data-driven technologies to improve procurement or supply chain workflows.

Responsibilities

• Negotiation: Leading complex, multi-party negotiations to deliver improved financial performance; structures multi-year partnerships balancing cost efficiency, service quality, and capacity assurance.
• Market Intelligence & Cost Development: Conducting market research to develop rate benchmarks and should-cost models; translating market conditions and capacity trends into defensible negotiation targets and data-driven cost positions for internal stakeholders.
• Subject Matter Expertise & Leadership: Serving as a strategic advisor to internal stakeholders and leadership - proactively shaping business requirements and translating them into vendor strategy, market positioning, and negotiation approaches. Actively develops other procurement specialists through mentorship, knowledge sharing, and negotiation coaching.
• Strategy: Execute and define transportation procurement strategy that complements network design and operations strategy with limited oversight; develop scalable frameworks for vendor evaluation, performance management, and relationship governance.
• AI & Automation: Scale and implement AI tools and workflows across GSCTP's procurement operations. Champion adoption of the AI toolkit by configuring solutions for team use cases and driving utilization that accelerates decision-making and improves negotiation outcomes. Encouraged to experiment with and create new AI tools or workflows that drive efficiency, quality, or speed within procurement operations.
• Bias for Action: Drive complex, multi-stakeholder sourcing initiatives to completion; actively mitigate risks through contract structures and vendor diversification; maintain momentum through obstacles and ambiguity.
• Communication: Primary author of strategic sourcing narratives (vendor evaluations, contract summaries, leadership updates); trusted to present recommendations to VPs and build consensus across cross-functional stakeholder teams.
• Technical Problem Solving: Navigating complex challenges across the full procurement cycle, from sourcing and negotiations through legal requirements and systems integration, ensuring contract structures align with technical system constraints to deliver scalable, executable agreements.

Skills

Procurement experience

Cross-functional collaboration

Excel data analysis

AI tools experience

Negotiation

Vendor management

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Tools

Excel

Job description

Amazon is seeking a Senior Procurement and Strategy Manager to lead vendor sourcing and management, drive AI-enabled procurement workflows, and partner with internal teams to improve financial results and service quality. This role demands strong negotiation, market intelligence, and cross-functional leadership across a global supply chain network.

The ideal candidate will manage multiple vendors, mentor procurement specialists, and shape transportation procurement strategy aligned with network