Procurement Category Manager, Data Center Services Procurement (DCSP)
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 are seeking a Procurement skilled to support the APAC data center operations space. As a Procurement Category Manager, you will create and implement sourcing strategies for General Contractor and Construction procurement category and collaborate with internal business partners and suppliers to reduce risks and costs for Amazon.
Key Responsibilities:
- Manage General Contractor and Construction Procurement categories
- Construction material supply chain sourcing and program management
- Achieve cost savings through negotiations, value engineering through the supply chain, and strategic initiatives
- Analyze category data and metrics to establish and implement procurement category strategies
- Understand trends in customers’ needs and concerns across categories and regions to influence customers’ priorities
- Provide in-depth knowledge about the supply market and supplier capabilities, technically and geographically, to the business
- 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 management of contracts post-execution
Basic Qualifications:
- 5+ years of relevant strategic sourcing including vendor negotiations, global contract management, process improvement, operational and financial analysis experience
- Experience in a procurement organization performing vendor management, contract management, negotiating complex purchases, and bidding
- Experience working effectively across cross-functional teams and partnering well with people at all levels within an organization, including coaching of junior staff
- 3+ years of procurement, purchasing, supply chain related work in a procurement organization experience
Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelor'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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📌 Procurement Category Manager, Data Center Services Procurement (DCSP)
🏢 Amazon
📍 City of Sydney