Global Strategic Sourcing Mgr Amazon Jobs – New York, NY

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Locations include: Arlington, VA, Austin, TX, New York City, NY, and Los Angeles, CA

As we rapidly become the world’s largest consumer of products, goods and services in many categories, the Global Corporate Procurement team is seeking a Global Strategic Sourcing Manager to join our team.

If you are someone who delivers results and focuses on customers, and have a strong track record of success in global strategic sourcing and procurement, this role may be for you.

Global Strategic Sourcing Managers (GSSM) develop and execute sourcing strategies, that deliver savings/value and improve productivity. GSSMs routinely interact with C-level supplier executives and advise senior Amazon leaders on innovative sourcing strategies and solutions that create sustainable, long-term return on investment. GSSMs are highly effective communicators, who are comfortable selling the value of strategic sourcing to internal clients across lines of business.

We are seeking a highly skilled Global Strategic Sourcing Managers with extensive experience leading complex sourcing initiatives within the IT Products and Services category such as IT, Software, Telecom, Professional services); however, we often source items beyond the aforementioned. This is an exciting opportunity to be a part of a team that is having a daily impact on Amazon’s success.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Dive deep across multiple business lines to leverage our supplier base with the goal of optimizing performance, quality, and cost.
• Earn trust and establish strong relationships with internal business stakeholders; build a robust understanding of strategic business direction, requirements and priorities across assigned suppliers and/or spend categories.
• Lead complex, cross-functional projects often of global reach.
• Evaluate supplier core competencies and competitive positioning using industry cost models and benchmarking; leveraging key-insights to inform and support the strategic sourcing strategy development process.
• Drive results by leveraging RFx, spend pattern analysis, contract analysis, bid evaluation, negotiations, and supplier consolidation.
• Work with business and finance leaders to identify and drive savings and controllership improvements, focusing on total cost of ownership.
• Encourage the participation, evaluation, and selection of diverse suppliers who meet requirements to create opportunities for a broad range of businesses and commodities.
• Engage the appropriate subject matter experts, including Finance, Legal, Tax, Risk, and Information Security, to evaluate and develop strategies to mitigate third party risk.

Basic Qualifications

• 7+ years of relevant strategic sourcing experience, to include at minimum, 5 years in a direct or indirect sourcing role
• 7+ years of experience practicing best-in-class procurement processes (strategic sourcing management, benchmarking, should-cost models, RFx, direct negotiations, auctions, contracting, etc.)
• 5+ years of experience in developing category plans and sourcing one or more of the following commodities: IT Software, Telecom, Professional Services or similar large commodity categories.
• Bachelor’s Degree (BA/BBA/BS) or equivalent

Preferred Qualifications

• Skilled negotiator with proven experience in setting negotiation strategies and leading negotiations
• Expert understanding of, and wide-ranging experience with, multi-step strategic sourcing processes and category management strategies
• Strong project management skills, including adhering to stakeholder timelines, requiring frequent communication, organization, time management, and problem-solving skills
• Extensive knowledge of commercial agreement structures and the function and purpose of key legal terms
• Extremely Customer Obsessed, taking the time to understand the needs of the business
• Experience working with multiple teams every day who may report to different leaders in a large global organization, and works easily in multi-business unit project settings
• Strong analytical and financial skills including the ability to quickly synthesize, distill, and draw conclusions from large amounts of disparate data.
• Passionate self-starter with the highest integrity and ethics
• Proven written and verbal communicator, with interpersonal skills to act as an effective and efficient change agent, unlocking barriers to value for priority spend categories
• Embraces fact‐based decision making; naturally seeks to leverage and/or integrate market data, spend analytics, and cost modeling
• Master’s Degree (MBA/MS) or equivalent preferred

Pursuant to the Los Angeles Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 7+ years of relevant strategic sourcing experience, to include at minimum, 5 years in a direct or indirect sourcing role
• 7+ years of experience practicing best-in-class procurement processes (strategic sourcing management, benchmarking, should-cost models, RFx, direct negotiations, auctions, contracting, etc.)
• 5+ years of experience in developing category plans and sourcing one or more of the following commodities: IT Software, Telecom, Professional Services or similar large commodity categories.
• Bachelor’s Degree (BA/BBA/BS) or equivalent

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Skilled negotiator with proven experience in setting negotiation strategies and leading negotiations
• Expert understanding of, and wide-ranging experience with, multi-step strategic sourcing processes and category management strategies
• Strong project management skills, including adhering to stakeholder timelines, requiring frequent communication, organization, time management, and problem-solving skills
• Extensive knowledge of commercial agreement structures and the function and purpose of key legal terms
• Extremely Customer Obsessed, taking the time to understand the needs of the business
• Experience working with multiple teams every day who may report to different leaders in a large global organization, and works easily in multi-business unit project settings
• Strong analytical and financial skills including the ability to quickly synthesize, distill, and draw conclusions from large amounts of disparate data.
• Passionate self-starter with the highest integrity and ethics
• Proven written and verbal communicator, with interpersonal skills to act as an effective and efficient change agent, unlocking barriers to value for priority spend categories
• Embraces fact‐based decision making; naturally seeks to leverage and/or integrate market data, spend analytics, and cost modeling
• Master’s Degree (MBA/MS) or equivalent preferred

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