Category Manager, Services, Global Procurement Organization (GPO)

DESCRIPTION

*Role can be based in Luxembourg, London, or Barcelona*

Amazon's Global Procurement Organization tackles business challenges that help internal customers with innovative procurement strategies. We create value in the supply chain, strive for optimization, and act with one global voice and vision. The Category team owns the strategic relationships with suppliers & internal stakeholders. The team identifies & leads strategic sourcing activities to lower overall total cost of ownership for Amazon operations, ensuring equipment & service availability meet business owner requirements. The team develops & negotiates framework agreements to reduce risk & support local teams in project specific needs relevant to category.

This role in the facility services team will have broad responsibility to define the procurement strategy for the janitorial category, sourcing vendors and innovative tools and processes to support a large network of Amazon stakeholders across multiple business lines.

Key job responsibilities
- Develop and deliver long term sourcing strategies, lead key initiatives with cross-functional teams; drive the decision making process of the category roadmap with regional senior leadership
- Drive commercial relationships with suppliers, with a principal objective of achieving optimal cost and performance
- Lead supplier performance management including improving sustainability & social responsibility
- Coordinate and collaborate with local teams to deploy and manage the implementation of your defined strategies

A day in the life
- Autonomy to innovate and deliver new approaches that impact the bottom and the top line
- Learn from people with a wide variety of professional backgrounds

About the team
The GPO janitorial category objective is to provide a hygienic, pleasant, and safe environment for associates, staff, suppliers, visitors and guests.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience in program or project management
- Experience working cross functionally with tech and non-tech teams
- Experience in supply chain
- Bachelor's degree
- Knowledge of Excel (Pivot Tables, VLookUps) at an advanced level and SQL
- Experience defining program requirements and using data and metrics to determine improvements

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience in driving end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership
- Experience identifying and resolving complex issues
- Experience in stakeholder management, dealing with multiple stakeholders at varied levels of the organization
- Experience building processes, project management, and schedules
- Experience being responsible/leading large and complex negotiations

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