Procurement Category Manager, Data Center Services
7 months ago
5+ years of relevant construction industry experience performing RFP documentation and bidding, contract negotiation, contract management, and BOQ analysis.
- Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Mechanical/Electrical Engineering, Quantity Surveying, Business, Commerce or relevant business discipline from an accredited university or equivalent combination of education and experience
- Strong leader who can drive category strategies, develop pricing models, and has influence across all levels of an organization
- Demonstrated ability as a Project Manager who can prioritize workload and manage complex projects within cost and schedule
- Strong business judgement, instincts, and organizational skills
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
- Highly proficient in MS Office
- Ability to work with technical and non-technical business owners to overcome obstacles and deliver results
- Proven ability to deliver within an occasionally ambiguous cross-functional environment
- Some travel is required (< 25%)
As a Procurement Category Manager, you will create and implement sourcing strategies for multiple complex services category and collaborate with internal business partners and suppliers to reduce risks and costs for Amazon. You will develop mechanisms and metrics to hold suppliers accountable for performance and delivery. Additionally, you will drive results through methods that include competitive bidding, negotiating, and analyzing data and market trends for your category. You will also create global Procurement processes and tools to drive innovation across teams.
Key job responsibilities
**Responsibilities include but are not limited to the following**:
- Manage General Contractor and Construction categories in ANZ regions and beyond
- Achieve cost savings through negotiations, value engineering through the supply chain, and strategic initiatives
- Analyze category data and metrics to establish and implement procurement category strategies
- Understand trends in customers’ needs and concerns across categories and regions to influence customers’ priorities
- Provide in-depth knowledge about the supply market and supplier capabilities, technically and geographically, to the business.
- 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
- Provide support throughout the contracting process, as well as management of contracts post-execution
Sydney, NSW, AUS
- Master's Degree in Business Administration, Commerce, Supply Chain Management or relevant business discipline from an accredited university
- 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 mission critical/data center, engineering, an infrastructure service provider or similar technology company
- Developing market intelligence to communicate across the organization
- Experience with creating Procurement systems and tools
- Experience with Tableau, Salesforce, Quicksight, PowerBI, Procore, and/or coding between these systems is beneficial.
- Proven ability to implement complex category strategies globally
- Proven ability to deep dive and develop innovative ideas for process challenges
**Acknowledgement of country**:
In the spirit of reconciliation Amazon acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.
**IDE statement**:
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer, and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, or other legally protected attributes.
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