Manager Category

DESCRIPTION

AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. In other words, we’re the people who keep the cloud running. We support all AWS data centers and all of the servers, storage, networking, power, and cooling equipment that ensure our customers have continual access to the innovation they rely on. We work on the most challenging problems, with thousands of variables impacting the supply chain — and we’re looking for talented people who want to help.

You’ll join a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, operations managers, and other vital roles. You’ll collaborate with people across AWS to help us deliver the highest standards for safety and security while providing seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost for our customers. And you’ll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.

Amazon Web Services provides a highly reliable, scalable, and low-cost cloud platform that powers thousands of businesses in over 190 countries. AWS’ Infrastructure Supply Chain & Procurement organization works to deliver solutions to source, build and maintain our socially responsible data center supply chains. We are a team of highly-motivated, engaged, and responsive professionals who enable the core sustainable infrastructure of AWS. Come join our team and be a part of history as we deliver results for the largest cloud services company on Earth

The IPS Procurement Category Management Org is responsible for the procurement of all third party provided services required for the operation of our Data Center infrastructure globally, including Colo and Edge facilities for externally delivered services not provided by the facility owner. The team is responsible for the identification, onboarding and performance management of suppliers as well as developing category strategies, conducting competitive tendering processes, supplier negotiations and the preparation of associated Work Orders.

The team is structured into three regions, each led by a regional manager, with each regional team composed of category managers with responsibility for the management of specific areas of spend within the region and a cohort of procurement specialists who support the category managers. The category management approach facilitates a strategic approach to procurement by facilitating in depth market analysis coupled with a cross functional approach to identify supplier and associated contracting options which are focused on meeting the particular needs of the business. Category management moves beyond traditional transactional based purchasing negotiations to provide a strategic approach to longer term, sustainable cost reductions, reducing risk and increasing resiliency in the supply base and facilitating innovation from within the supply base that the business can leverage.

This is a regional role within the IPS: Procurement -Category Management team responsible for contract negotiations and managing sourcing of third party provided services required for the operations of our Data Center infrastructure. The role specifically manages the category scope of sourcing within the Environment Health & Safety domain. The role is also responsible for working with the multiple AWS teams (including EHS program teams, legal teams and Professional Services team) to ensure SOWs and contracting terms are in compliance with legal requirements.

While cost reduction will always be a key focus of the team, the principle cynosure of the team is the delivery of services that are keenly focused on increasing reliability and supporting enhanced availability through robust relationships which support continuity of operations. As service and quality levels can vary greatly, principally based on the skill set within a supplier local organization, the regional structure facilitates tailoring of category strategies to meet local market considerations and closely monitor supplier performance at the local level.

Key job responsibilities
Category Management
- Manage a critical categories with the Environment, Health and Safety Domain.
- Achieve cost savings through bidding and negotiations, drive collaboration to achieve long term value delivery.
- Obtain market intelligence, analyze category data and metrics to drive Procurement category strategies.
- Understand trends in customers’ needs and concerns, across categories and regions, to influence customers’ priorities.
- Lead supplier selection process across multiple sub-categories, internal teams, and regions, and create longer-term supplier selection strategies for management.
- Ensure you are knowledgeable about the supply market, new innovations and supplier capabilities, technically and geographically.
- Ensure you are knowledgeable about sustainability, diversity, in-country value and have experience developing