Strategic Sourcing Specialist, Global Corporate Procurement

Amazon Inc.; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon's Global Corporate Procurement team in Austin is seeking a Strategic Sourcing Specialist to design innovative sourcing strategies and lead sourcing engagements across a wide range of business units. You will drive performance, optimize efficiency, and enable new initiatives to launch rapidly in a fast-paced environment.

You will communicate with stakeholders across business units, juggle priorities, and contribute to both short-term tactical and long-term strategic sourcing efforts,

Qualifications

• Experience leading sourcing engagements across indirect spend categories.
• Ability to establish relationships with internal partners and drive savings.

Responsibilities

• Establish relationships with internal partners and understand priorities across suppliers.
• Support execution of sourcing events across indirect spend categories.
• Deliver savings by driving adoption of automated self-service sourcing technology.
• Support product roadmap of the self-service sourcing application.
• Manage RFx, spend analysis, contract analysis, bid evaluations, and supplier consolidation.
• Work with finance to identify savings and controllership improvements (Total Cost of Ownership).
• Provide procurement guidance to stakeholders in line with Amazon’s policies.

Skills

Strategic sourcing

RFx management

Negotiations

Vendor management

Cost optimization

Job description

Are you a Strategic Sourcing superstar looking to make a big impact?

As Amazon rapidly becomes the world's largest consumer of corporate services, our Global Corporate Procurement team is seeking a Strategic Sourcing Specialist to join our team.

Strategic Sourcing Specialists, working under the general direction of more senior team members, manage strategic sourcing engagements as a central team supporting a wide range of Amazon and subsidiary business units.

In this pivotal role, you'll design innovative sourcing strategies and lead sourcing engagements across a wide range of business units. Your mission? Improve performance, optimize efficiency, ensure top-notch quality, and enable new initiatives to launch and scale with lightning speed.

Demonstrating a passionate commitment to procurement excellence, you will flawlessly handle and execute sourcing initiatives, communicating efficiently and effectively with stakeholders across various business units. Adept at juggling multiple priorities, you will thrive in the fast-paced, dynamic environment, contributing to both short-term tactical and long-term strategic efforts.

Does this sound like your next great challenge? If you're passionate about finding the right products, goods and services at the right time from the right suppliers, we want to hear from you.

Come join our fast-paced, innovative team and help Amazon make history in Corporate Procurement.

Key job responsibilities

• Establishing strong relationships with internal business partners; building a robust understanding of strategic business direction, requirements and priorities across assigned suppliers and/or spend categories.
• Supporting execution of sourcing events across all indirect spend categories
• Delivering savings and increased spend under management by driving adoption of a automated self-service sourcing technology application
• Supporting enhancements and the product development roadmap of the self-service sourcing application based upon purchasing history and stakeholder sourcing requirements
• Managing the fundamentals of sourcing and supplier engagement activities including RFx, spend pattern analysis, contract analysis, bid evaluation, negotiations, and supplier consolidation.
• Working with business and finance leaders to identify and drive savings and controllership improvements, focusing on total cost of ownership.
• Providing guidance to internal stakeholders on procurement strategies; maintaining procurement ethics in accordance with Amazon’s global policies.