Senior Construction and Procurement Specialist

Job Opportunity

Senior Procurement Category Manager - Construction and Global Procurement.

This senior category manager role is a crucial position in shaping the future of construction procurement across Australia. Our global procurement organization is looking for an experienced leader to drive strategic construction procurement activities, working closely with various stakeholders including design, construction, real estate, legal, and finance teams.

The successful candidate will have extensive experience in procurement, contract, and commercial management within the construction industry. They will be responsible for developing and executing strategies to procure various construction supply chain tiers, managing complex relationships, and ensuring continuity of supply while mitigating risks. Strong negotiation skills, commercial acumen, and leadership abilities are essential for this role.

As part of our team, you will contribute to measurable value creation, drive sustainability initiatives, and establish best-in-class procurement practices across our Australian operations. This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of Amazon's construction procurement landscape in Australia.

1. Develop and execute construction category sourcing strategies across different supply chain tiers (General Contractors, Subcontractors, Suppliers, OEMs) and geographies across Australia
2. Take responsibility for increasing Amazon's competitiveness and maintain continuity of supply and mitigate risks across geographical and business unit boundaries, defining opportunities to suit the particular needs of Amazon business
3. Focus on deep diving construction categories and regions to add value to the overall procurement process by identifying synergies, benchmarking, innovation, eliminating waste and identifying economies of scale, thus increasing our competitive advantage
4. Drive cost optimization through negotiation, standardization, value engineering, and supply chain improvements
5. Build effective internal and external relationships with colleagues, suppliers, and partners that enables effective collaborative working and a positive and productive working environment own strategic supplier relationships
6. Negotiate, execute, and manage framework agreements
7. Support sustainability initiatives aligned with Amazon's Climate Pledge
8. Provide market intelligence and strategic insights to key stakeholders and procurement leadership to inform decision making
9. Own the individual targets and goals identified across the construction category scope as well as identifying and delivering incremental value and process improvements
10. Innovate within the procurement space, automating and improving tools and processes to better support the Procurement Life-cycle
11. Provide market intelligence and strategic insights to key stakeholders and procurement leadership to inform decision making

• Lead procurement processes including prequalification, onboarding, tender management, evaluations, contract negotiations, and award recommendations, delivering to tight timescales, being technically and commercially accurate and to manage several schemes simultaneously
• Drive procurement of innovative, sustainable, and cost-effective construction services to help our Operations teams succeed and delight customers with speed, selection, and convenience
• Serve as the key interface between project delivery and any internal central core team from Design and Construction, Real Estate, and Legal partners and the senior leadership of external supply chain (General Contractors, Subcontractors, Suppliers, OEMs)
• Support supplier performance management together with Design and Construction partners
• Provide insight and knowledge of the construction industry and supply chain and in turn develop procurement strategies to support/inform strategic decision making
• Prepare high-quality white papers and anticipate objections to proposed procurement approach and gain buy-in from decision makers, including managing differing perspectives to a recommended position. Influence decision-making at senior leadership levels
• Adapt and sometimes take different roles from strategy development to project management to rapidly meet customer needs

Our team is growing, and your expertise will be crucial in delivering measurable value creation, driving sustainability initiatives, and establishing best-in-class procurement practices across our Australian operations.

As part of our team, you will have the autonomy to work independently and collaborate with various stakeholders to shape and execute innovative category strategies.