Strategic Vendor Leader: Fleet Maintenance & Cost

Amazon; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 144,000 - 195,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon seeks a Principal Vendor Strategy Manager to own multi-year vendor strategy for fleet maintenance across Middle Mile and Last Mile assets. You will design contracts with performance mechanisms, build financial views, and influence senior leaders to optimize uptime, cost, and quality.

The role requires deep strategic sourcing, ambiguity tolerance, and a track record of delivering structural cost improvements while raising performance across vendor ecosystems.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of Excel experience.
• 7+ years of account management, project or program management or buying experience.
• Bachelor's degree, or 7+ years of professional or military experience.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Access or SQL.
• Experience using data to influence business decisions.
• Experience driving internal cross-team collaboration.
• Experience with business analysis and P&L management.
• 10+ years of vendor management experience.
• 5+ years of multi-million dollar contract negotiation experience.
• Experience owning end-to-end vendor strategy including selection, contracting, performance management, and exit planning.

Responsibilities

• Own vendor maintenance strategy, developing contracts and negotiating strategy to drive cost-effective and performance focused strategies.
• Maintaining relationships with 3P vendors, while continually scouting for additional ones.
• Develop internal and external financial views around volumes, labor rates, service speed and other key requirements which will drive cost.
• Creating, Evaluating and auditing contracts while seeking ways to improve and enhance the quality of services purchased and the timeliness of deliveries
• Conducting cost analyses and setting benchmarks for improvement
• Develop risk management strategies to mitigate capacity shortages, including geographic diversification and contingency planning across the vendor network
• Working closely with the company legal department to make sure contracts and terms are favorable
• Build effective stakeholder and internal customer relationships, understanding budgetary targets and influencing spend decisions, ensuring a high service levels, and adding value in other categories
• Measure actual vs planned savings; as savings trends are identified, own action plans to meet goals and develop solutions
• Influence Director and VP-level roadmaps and data-driven strategy decisions
• Set the direction for the vendors to demonstrate a management style that encourages participation and ownership, along with a continuous focus on action, customer satisfaction, support personnel satisfaction and cost management
• Own savings targets and develop mechanisms to measure actual vs. planned performance and drive action plans

Skills

Excel

Data-driven decisions

Cross-team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree

MBA

Tools

Microsoft Access

SQL

Job description

Amazon seeks a Principal Vendor Strategy Manager to own multi-year vendor strategy for fleet maintenance across Middle Mile and Last Mile assets. You will design contracts with performance mechanisms, build financial views, and influence senior leaders to optimize uptime, cost, and quality.

The role requires deep strategic sourcing, ambiguity tolerance, and a track record of delivering structural cost improvements while raising performance across vendor ecosystems.