Strategic Sourcing Manager

Amazon is seeking a Strategic Sourcing Manager to join the Global Corporate Procurement (GCP) Team. This role involves leading complex sourcing initiatives across Employee Services, influencing and forming partnerships with business leaders, and managing multiple priorities simultaneously.

Key responsibilities:

• Establish strong relationships with internal business stakeholders and understand their strategic direction, requirements, and priorities.
• Dive deep across multiple business units to optimize supplier performance, quality, and cost.
• Evaluate supplier core competencies and competitive positioning using industry cost models and benchmarking.
• Manage sourcing and supplier engagement activities, including RFx, spend pattern analysis, contract analysis, bid evaluation, negotiations, and supplier consolidation.
• Identify sourcing opportunities by leveraging spend analysis tools and engage with stakeholders to consolidate requirements.
• Work with business and finance leaders to identify and drive savings and controllership improvements.
• Provide guidance to internal stakeholders on procurement processes and best-practice tools.

A typical day might involve cross-functional alignment calls, analyzing bid responses, negotiation calls with strategic suppliers, and spend reviews with Finance.

The Global Corporate Procurement (GCP) team manages Amazon's indirect spend across various categories and is a global team of sourcing professionals who combine analytical rigor with creative problem-solving.