Amazon’s mission is to be the most customer-centric company on Earth. To get there, we need to develop leaders who represent, and can innovate on behalf of a diverse and demanding global customer base. We are seeking a highly skilled, versatile, and strong Senior Procurement Manager, Procurement Innovation to lean a complex set of projects and initiatives and drive progress on key strategies.

With your help, Amazon will continue to enable people to discover new worlds and implement innovation. This is your chance to make history.

The ideal candidate is a creative, demonstrated leader with strong ability to challenge ambiguity, superior analytical abilities with extensive experience in process improvement and digitalization in procurement / Source to Pay. Ideal candidates have extensive experience with process analysis, mapping AS/IS processes and define TO/BE by leading project teams.

At the core of the position is to bridge the gap to the best-in-class Taxonomy solutions in order to solve the needs of internal Global Procurement Operations customers. This opportunity requires the excellent technical, problem-solving, and communication skills.

This position involves regular communication with senior management on progress, risks and change control. Ability to steer extended cross-discipline virtual teams as well as project management and executive presentation skills are essential to this role.


Key job responsibilities
• Lead of a) strategy and intake b) program management and adoption and c) serial-life support and continuous improvement
• Identify key business challenges to be solved through digitalization and map with best-in-class
• Influence the overall GPO Capability Model strategy and long-term roadmap
• Lead high-complexity end-to-end procurement innovation and programs: from identifying the key business challenges, designing the right mechanism of change and delivering the desired strategic outputs and business objectives
• Design an iterative process of development, adoption and inspection and identify areas of improvement for next iteration
• Lead change management and adoption of the new process or SOP across the procurement function and business stakeholders
• Regular communication with senior management on progress, risks and change control
• Key metrics: customer experience, efficiency, adoption...