Procurement Category Manager, Data Center Services Procurement

**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.

As a Procurement Category Manager, you will create and implement sourcing strategies for General Contractor and Construction procurement 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
Manage General Contractor and Construction Procurement categories

Construction material supply chain sourcing and program management

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

Some travel may be required, up to 25%.

About the team
About AWS

Diverse Experiences

Why AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.

Inclusive Team Culture
AWS values curiosity and connection. Our employee-led and company-sponsored affinity groups promote inclusion and empower our people to take pride in what makes us unique. Our inclusion events foster stronger, more collaborative teams. Our continual innovation is fueled by the bold ideas, fresh perspectives, and passionate voices our teams bring to everything we do.

Mentorship and Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

**BASIC QUALIFICATIONS**:

- 5+ years of relevant strategic sourcing including vendor negotiations, global contract management, process improvement, operational and financial analysis experience
- Experience in a procurement organization performing vendor management, contract management, negotiating complex purchases, and bidding
- Experience working effectively across cross-functional teams and partnering well with people at all levels within an organization, including coaching of junior staff
- 3+ years of procurement, purchasing, supply chain related work in a procurement organization experience

**PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS**:

- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Finance, Economics, Computer Science, or a related field
- Experience in program, project, product management, or leading a product implementation process
- Experience in data cente