Job Description
Procurement Category Manager for EMEA Region - Complex Services Category
About the Company
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a leading cloud platform that powers thousands of businesses worldwide. Our Infrastructure Supply Chain & Procurement organization delivers cutting-edge solutions to source, build, and maintain socially responsible data center supply chains.
Job Description
We're seeking a highly analytical and strategic Procurement Category Manager to lead our complex services category in the EMEA region. As a key member of our team, you will develop and implement sourcing strategies, collaborate with internal partners and suppliers, and drive results through competitive bidding, negotiation, and market trend analysis.
Main Responsibilities:
- Manage a complex category within the Maintenance, Repair, and Operation (MRO) domains
- Achieve cost savings through bidding and negotiations
- Analyze category data and metrics to drive Procurement category strategies
- Understand trends in customers' needs and concerns, across categories and regions, to influence customers' priorities
- Lead supplier selection process across multiple categories, internal teams, and regions
- 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
Requirements:
- Bachelor's Degree from an accredited university or equivalent combination of education and experience
- 5+ years' experience in a Procurement organization performing vendor management, contract management, negotiating complex purchases, and bidding
- Demonstrated ability to develop and implement category strategies, develop pricing models, and has influence across all levels of an organization
- Strong business judgement, instincts, and organizational skills
- Fluency in English
Preferred Qualifications:
- Masters degree in Business, Procurement & Supply chain or relevant business discipline
- CIPS, ISM, APICS certified or equivalent
- Ability to communicate and report on market intelligence data, including commodity trends and labor indexes
- Demonstrated success in driving strategies and analyzing market trends
- Experience in data centers, engineering, an infrastructure service provider or similar technology company
- Developing market intelligence to communicate across the organization
- Experience with creating Procurement systems and tools
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