Senior Procurement Manager, Data Center Sourcing and Procurement EMEA
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| Amazon Data Services Ireland Limited
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a dynamic, growing business unit within that provides a broad set of infrastructure services including computing power, storage options, networking and databases available on demand.
We are the leader in cloud computing and our pioneers are embracing innovation, building the future, and making history The Infrastructure team provides AWS and with the compute, network and data centre capacity that are the foundations of the retail and cloud business.
AWS is seeking a Senior Manager to lead and develop a team of category managers in the EMEA data centre construction space.
The ideal candidate should have strong people management skills, be experienced in developing teams, have strong supply chain and procurement skills and have experience in people performance management.
The candidate must have proven skills in managing operational and project teams and developing Category strategies.
As a Senior Procurement Manager you will create and implement category strategies that will address policy, process and system changes needed to scale the procurement function and collaborate with internal business partners and suppliers to reduce costs and improve procurement function efficiency for AWS.
Additionally, you will drive results through methods that include people management, identifying wasteful processes, analysing data and market trends for increasing the business impact of procurement.
You will also create global Procurement processes and tools to drive innovation across teams.
The ideal candidate thinks long term, drives multiple initiatives, and communicates appropriately and influences customers and suppliers at all levels.
charismatic and a strong people leader; think strategically and globally; have a sense of urgency to meet customer timelines; exhibit an intense curiosity and learning drive; succeed in a fast-paced environment; engage and influence key stakeholders; and have a high level of customer focus and business judgement.
Also, you must have a demonstrated track record of managing teams and driving people performance to meet business objectives.It will be critical to embrace and model Amazon's Leadership Principles and have an entrepreneurial spirit with a "get it done" mentality.
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