EMEA Category Manager, AIS Supply Chain/IPS

4 weeks ago

Dublin, Dublin City, Ireland Amazon Full time
EMEA Category Manager, AIS Supply Chain/IPS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides a highly reliable, scalable, and low-cost cloud platform that powers thousands of businesses in over 190 countries. AWS' Infrastructure Supply Chain & Procurement (ISCaP) organization works to deliver cutting-edge solutions to source, build and maintain our socially responsible data center supply chains. We are a team of highly-motivated, engaged, and responsive professionals who enable the core sustainable infrastructure of AWS. Come join our team and be a part of history as we deliver results for the largest cloud services company on Earth.

As a Procurement Category Manager, you will create and implement sourcing strategies for at least one complex services category and collaborate with internal business partners and suppliers to reduce risks and costs for Amazon. You will develop mechanisms and metrics to hold suppliers accountable for performance and delivery. Additionally, you will drive results through methods that include competitive bidding, negotiating, and analyzing data and market trends for your category. You will also create global Procurement processes and tools to drive innovation across teams.

The ideal candidate thinks long term, drives multiple initiatives, and communicates appropriately and influences customers and suppliers at all levels. You must be collaborative, but also work with significant autonomy. To be successful in this role you must be highly analytical; think strategically and globally; have a sense of urgency to meet customer timelines; exhibit an intense curiosity and learning drive; succeed in a fast-paced environment; engage and influence key stakeholders; and have a high level of customer focus and business judgement. Also, you must have a demonstrated track record of managing multiple projects and driving them to completion to meet business objectives. It will be critical to embrace and model Amazon's Leadership Principles and have an entrepreneurial spirit with a "get it done" mentality.

Responsibilities

1. Manage a complex category within the Maintenance, Repair, and Operation (MRO) domains
2. Achieve cost savings through bidding and negotiations
3. Analyze category data and metrics to drive Procurement category strategies
4. Understand trends in customers' needs and concerns, across categories and regions, to influence customers' priorities
5. Lead supplier selection process across multiple categories, internal teams, and regions, and create longer-term supplier selection strategies for management
6. Ensure you are knowledgeable about the supply market and supplier capabilities, technically and geographically. Knowledge of the Swedish market is a distinct advantage.
7. Develop mechanisms and metrics to track supplier performance related to delivery, quality, and cost
8. Create supplier scorecards to measure and track supplier performance
9. Lead business reviews to discuss best practices and issues and to ultimately improve supplier performance and strengthen business partnerships
10. Innovate within the procurement space, automating and/or improving tools or processes to better support the Procurement Lifecycle
11. Provide support throughout the contracting process, as well as management of contracts post-execution

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit this link.

Minimum Requirements

1. Bachelor's Degree from an accredited university or equivalent combination of education and experience
2. 5+ years' experience in a Procurement organization performing vendor management, contract management, negotiating complex purchases, and bidding
3. Demonstrated ability to develop and implement category strategies, develop pricing models, and has influence across all levels of an organization
4. Strong business judgement, instincts, and organizational skills
5. Fluency in English

Preferred Qualifications

1. Masters degree in Business, Procurement & Supply chain or relevant business discipline.
2. CIPS, ISM, APICS certified or equivalent
3. Ability to communicate and report on market intelligence data, including commodity trends and labor indexes
4. Demonstrated success in driving strategies and analyzing market trends
5. Experience in data centers, engineering, an infrastructure service provider or similar technology company
6. Developing market intelligence to communicate across the organization
7. Experience with creating Procurement systems and tools
8. PRINCE, LEAN, Six Sigma, PMP an advantage

Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Amazon. Please consult our Privacy Notice (this link) to know more about how we collect, use and transfer the personal data of our candidates.

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