DESCRIPTION

At Amazon, we're working to be the most customer-centric company on earth. If you'd like to help us build the place to find and buy anything online, this is your chance to make history.

As a Senior Category Manager, you will create and own the strategic relationship with third-party logistic providers (3PLs) and senior internal stakeholders while building collaboration within and across organizational boundaries. You will drive key sourcing activities, ensuring equipment and service availability to meet business goals while minimizing risk. You will be the trusted advisor in strategic sourcing and procurement initiatives. In this role will manage internal and external relationships while building new categories and processes.

We are seeking a leader with procurement experience to strategically source solutions, including services as part of our External Fulfillment Procurement Organization. The position will work and partner with multiple teams to develop and execute category sourcing strategies and processes, deliver savings and improve productivity across the category.


Key job responsibilities

- Build a resilient 3PL supplier ecosystem creating resiliency, flexibility, and incremental capacity when required
- Identify, develop and deliver long term sourcing strategies while leading sourcing initiatives with cross-functional teams
- Drive the decision-making process with senior leadership to improve 3PL EF category management.
- Drive commercial relationships with suppliers, with a principal objective of achieving Amazon service and customer experience with improved cost and performance
- Lead supplier performance management; including improving sustainability and social responsibility
- Coordinate and collaborate with operational teams to deploy and manage the implementation of your defined strategies.

~25% travel including occasional international travel


A day in the life
- Earn the trust of key stakeholders driving alignment with the business
- Drive and execute complex sourcing activities in cooperation with cross-functional teams
- Creatively problem solve and deliver complete market solutions
- Develop a resilient, fast paced, flexible supplier ecosystem capable of delivering at or above the speed of the business
- Gather business needs and elaborate the most optimal sourcing strategy to secure on timely manner the capacity, minimizing Total Cost of Ownership and risk
- Leverage existing procurement resources to benefit our internal customers
- Own commercial relationship with third-party logistic providers

About the team
GPO 3PL External Fulfillment procurement is focused on delivering solutions and services to the AFN by building a strong 3PL network supplier base. Our team aims to fulfill at 1P speed, service and customer experience and providing advantages in cost and flexibility. Our team strives to be THE control tower for 3PL EF procurement support to our stakeholders. We continue to innovate and find ways to move faster and more efficiently to deliver capacity in to Amazon Customer fulfillment network

Key stakeholders include various teams within Network Planning, Supply Chain, Operations, Finance, Legal and others.