Description You will drive continuous improvement, innovation, prevent legal and supply risk, and sustainability. Create a category strategy in conjunction with internal customers to ensure there is a comprehensive, unified approach for the category. • Achieve yearly cost saving or value targets appropriate to the category aligned with annual budget processes. • Define and report on key metrics that measure effectiveness of projects, initiatives and cost savings • Champion standards and process improvements • Build category strategies which are scalable and reflective of the Amazon growth plans • Support Operations team with any upcoming sourcing requirement in the country across different categories Key job responsibilities • Standardize procurement processes, operational tools, operating standards, and supplier management activities. • Create, manage and communicate RFX documents for key requirements, leading the tender process through to techno-commercial evaluation, post tender negotiation, contracting, purchase order and delivery. • Drive category strategies for the spend under management while strengthening strategic relationships with preferred vendors delivering scalable and sustainable results against business goals supported by a culture of continuous improvement and performance benchmarks • Act as a spend category market intelligence provider to anticipate strategic opportunities and keep key stakeholders informed • Drive the performance of category suppliers in Supplier Relationship Management activities to mitigate risk, improve performance and add value to Amazon • Analyze historic spend data to support budget pricing calculations, rate cards and catalogue adoption and spend/sourcing strategies. • Strong negotiation skills and a track record of earning stakeholder trust, taking ownership and delivering results • Work closely with vendors to ensure full deployment of Amazon Supply chain standards • Manage a number of projects simultaneously, across various stakeholders and spend categories while being able to manage priorities effectively to support and achieve on time delivery of requirements and site launch dates. • Work closely with leadership to develop long-term strategic plans to maximize value for Amazon Basic Qualifications - Bachelor's degree - 3+ years of program or project management experience - 3+ years of working cross functionally with tech and non-tech teams experience - 3+ years of defining and implementing process improvement initiatives using data and metrics experience - 2+ years of supply chain experience - Knowledge of Excel (Pivot Tables, VLookUps) at an advanced level and SQL Preferred Qualifications - 3+ years of driving end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership experience - 3+ years of driving process improvements experience - Experience in stakeholder management, dealing with multiple stakeholders at varied levels of the organization - Experience building processes, project management, and schedules