Strategic Category Manager, Global MRO & Facilities

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Herndon (VA); On-site; USD 80,000 - 139,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Data Services, Inc. is seeking an experienced procurement professional to manage a complex category within MRO and Facility Management for its global data center footprint.

You will drive cost savings, supplier selection, and performance management across regions, aligning with sustainability goals and Amazon Leadership Principles. The role requires strong strategic sourcing, supplier negotiations, and data-driven decision making in a fast-paced tech environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of procurement, supply chain, inventory management, contract management, lease administration or operations experience.
• 5+ years of relevant strategic sourcing including vendor negotiations, global contract management, process improvement, operational and financial analysis experience.
• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Business, Engineering, Finance, or a related technical field.
• Experience with data analysis tools such as Advanced Excel, SQL, Tableau, Python.
• Experience in global supply chain management, managing cross-functional teams in a fast-paced consumer electronics product company

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.
• Travel domestic and international as required.

Job description

Amazon Data Services, Inc. is seeking an experienced procurement professional to manage a complex category within MRO and Facility Management for its global data center footprint.

You will drive cost savings, supplier selection, and performance management across regions, aligning with sustainability goals and Amazon Leadership Principles. The role requires strong strategic sourcing, supplier negotiations, and data-driven decision making in a fast-paced tech environment.