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. 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 across AWS to deliver the highest standards for safety and security while providing seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost for customers. You'll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.

Key job responsibilities

• 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 awareness of the supply market, new innovations and supplier capabilities, technically and geographically.
• Ensure awareness of 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 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

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

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