Procurement and Supplier Development Manager , AIS Supply Chain- IPS: Procurement Category Mana ...

Procurement and Supplier Development Manager , AIS Supply Chain- IPS: Procurement Category Management

Job ID: Amazon Data Services Ireland Limited

AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. In other words, we're the people who keep the cloud running. We support all AWS data centers and all of the servers, storage, networking, power, and cooling equipment that ensure our customers have continual access to the innovation they rely on. We work on the most challenging problems, with thousands of variables impacting the supply chain - and we're looking for talented people who want to help.

You'll join a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, operations managers, and other vital roles. You'll collaborate with people across AWS to help us deliver the highest standards for safety and security while providing seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost for our customers. And you'll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.

Amazon Web Services provides a highly reliable, scalable, and low-cost cloud platform that powers thousands of businesses in over 190 countries.

Key job responsibilities

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 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. You should also 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.

• Manage a complex category within the Maintenance, Repair, and Operation (MRO) 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 required both domestically and internationally.

Basic 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.
• Experience in strategic sourcing including vendor negotiations, global contract management, process improvement, operational and financial analysis.
• 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• 4+ years of program, project, product management, or leading a product implementation process experience.
• Master's degree in Business Administration, Finance, Economics, Computer Science, or a related field.
• Experience in program, project, product management, or leading a product implementation process.
• Experience in data centers, infrastructure service providers, or related technology companies.

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