Category Manager, Construction, Global Procurement Organization (GPO), Global Procurement Organ ...

Category Manager, Construction, Global Procurement Organization (GPO)

Job ID: Amazon EU SARL (UK Branch)

Overview

Shape Amazon's construction procurement landscape in Europe as a Category Manager. Lead strategic construction procurement activities across a portfolio of multi million dollar real estate projects. Influence major construction projects, drive sustainable procurement practices, and collaborate with world class professionals across Europe.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and execute construction category sourcing strategies across supply chain tiers (General Contractors, Subcontractors, Suppliers, OEMs) and trades (civil, architectural, MEP, fire protection, fit out) throughout Europe.
• Increase Amazon's competitiveness, maintain supply continuity, and mitigate risks across geographic and business unit boundaries.
• Deeply analyze construction categories and regions to add value, identify synergies, benchmark, innovate, eliminate waste, and realize economies of scale.
• Drive cost optimisation through negotiation, standardisation, value engineering, and supply chain improvements.
• Build effective internal and external relationships with colleagues, suppliers, and partners to enable collaborative work and a positive environment.
• Negotiate, execute, and manage framework agreements.
• Support sustainability initiatives aligned with Amazon's Climate Pledge.
• Provide market intelligence and strategic insights to key stakeholders and procurement leadership for decision making.
• Own individual targets and goals across the construction category scope, delivering incremental value and process improvements.
• Innovate procurement tools and processes to improve the procurement life cycle.

A Day in the Life

• Lead procurement processes including pre qualification, onboarding, tender management, evaluations, contract negotiations, and award recommendations under tight schedules.
• Apply technical knowledge of construction trades to assess supplier capabilities, evaluate proposals, and drive value engineering initiatives.
• Procure innovative, sustainable, and cost effective construction services to support Operations teams.
• Collaborate with technical teams to optimise specifications across construction disciplines.
• Serve as the key interface between project delivery and internal teams (Design, Construction, Real Estate, Legal) and senior leadership of external supply chain.
• Support supplier performance management with Design and Construction partners.
• Provide industry insight and develop procurement strategies to support strategic decision making.
• Prepare white papers and anticipate objections, influencing senior level decision makers.
• Adapt between strategy development and project management to meet customer needs.

About the Team

Join a growing team where strategic thinking, commercial acumen, and leadership drive measurable value creation, sustainability initiatives, and best in class procurement practices across European operations. The role can be based in London or Barcelona.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree.
• Advanced Excel (Pivot Tables, VLOOKUP) and SQL skills.
• Experience in program or project management.
• Experience working cross functionally with tech and non tech teams.
• Experience defining and implementing process improvement initiatives using data and metrics.
• Experience in supply chain.
• Experience defining program requirements and using data and metrics to determine improvements.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience driving end to end delivery and communicating results to senior leadership.
• Experience leading process improvements.
• Experience in stakeholder management across varied organizational levels.
• Experience building processes, project management, and schedules.

Equal Opportunity Employer

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