Senior Category Manager - Construction Procurement
The ideal candidate will have 10+ years of experience in procurement, contract and/or commercial management within the construction industry. Experience developing strategies for procurement of various construction supply chain tiers (General Contractor, Tier 2/3 Subcontractors, Suppliers, OEMs) is highly desirable.
About the Role
* Lead strategic construction procurement activities across diverse multi-million-dollar real estate projects.
* Develop and execute construction category sourcing strategies for different supply chain tiers and geographies across Australia.
* Take responsibility for increasing competitiveness and maintaining continuity of supply, mitigating risks across geographical and business unit boundaries.
Key Responsibilities
1. Develop and execute construction category sourcing strategies across different supply chain tiers (General Contractors, Subcontractors, Suppliers, OEMs) and geographies across Australia.
2. Taking responsibility for increasing Amazon's competitiveness and maintain continuity of supply and mitigate risks across geographical and business unit boundaries, defining opportunities to suit the particular needs of Amazon business.
3. Focusing on deep diving construction categories and regions to add value to the overall procurement process by identifying synergies, benchmarking, innovation, eliminating waste and identifying economies of scale, thus increasing our competitive advantage.
4. Driving cost optimization through negotiation, standardization, value engineering, and supply chain improvements.
5. Building effective internal and external relationships with colleagues, suppliers and partners that enables effective collaborative working and a positive and productive working environment own strategic supplier relationships.
6. Negotiating, executing and managing framework agreements.
7. Supporting sustainability initiatives aligned with Amazon's Climate Pledge.
8. Providing market intelligence and strategic insights to key stakeholders and procurement leadership to inform decision making.
9. Owned individual targets and goals identified across the construction category scope as well as identifying and delivering incremental value and process improvements.
10. Innovate within the procurement space, automating and improving tools and processes to better support the Procurement Life-cycle.
11. Providing market intelligence and strategic insights to key stakeholders and procurement leadership to inform decision making.
A Day in the Life
* Leading procurement processes including prequalification, onboarding, tender management, evaluations, contract negotiations and award recommendations, delivering to tight timescales, being technically and commercially accurate and to manage several schemes simultaneously.
* Drive procurement of innovative, sustainable, and cost-effective construction services to help our Operations teams succeed and delight Amazon.com customers with speed, selection and convenience.
* Serving as the key interface between project delivery and any internal central core team from Design and Construction, Real Estate and Legal partners and the senior leadership of external supply chain (General Contractors, Subcontractors, Suppliers, OEMs).
* Supporting supplier performance management together with Design and Construction partners.
* Providing insight and knowledge of the construction industry and supply chain and in turn develop procurement strategies to support/inform strategic decision making.
* Preparing high quality white papers and anticipating objections to proposed procurement approach and gain buy-in from decision makers, including managing differing perspectives to a recommended position.
* Influencing decision-making at senior leadership levels.
* Adapting and sometimes taking different roles from strategy development to project management to rapidly meet customer needs.
Requirements
* 10+ years experience in procurement, contract and/or commercial management experience within construction.
* Experience developing strategies for procurement of various construction supply chain tiers (General Contractor, Tier 2/3 Subcontractors, Suppliers, OEMs).
* Understanding of the construction industry contracts and procurement processes.
* Experience in negotiating various types of large-scale construction contracts.
* Strong inter-personal and communication skills to manage complex relationship interfaces.
* Willingness to travel up to 10%.
* Degree qualified in relevant construction related discipline e.g. Engineering, Construction Management, Civil Engineering, Architect, Project Management, Quantity Surveying.