Senior Category Manager, Base Building Maintenance Services, Global Procurement Organization

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This role can be based in Luxembourg or Barcelona.

We are seeking a Senior Category Manager to strategically source Base Building Maintenance Services for our for our Middle Europe (MEU) network – Germany being primary country and also take part of our global initiatives. The person in this role will coordinate with several teams across Amazon and will interact with our most important suppliers to satisfy organizational requirements.

The person in this will work and partner with multiple teams to develop and execute category sourcing strategies, deliver savings, and improve productivity across the category.

Key job responsibilities

• Establish category sourcing strategies, lead cross-functional strategic sourcing teams, negotiate with suppliers and execute contracts to optimize Amazon's competitive position.

• Drive appropriate relationships with category suppliers, with a principal objective of achieving the optimal solution and cost of ownership that meets the business' goals supported by a culture of continuous improvement with performance benchmarks in use.

• Manage category suppliers to proactively identify, monitor and optimize opportunities.

• Act as a market intelligence provider regarding categories; anticipate strategic opportunities and keep key stakeholders informed.

• Drive category suppliers in Supplier Relationship Management activities to mitigate risk, improve performance and add value to Amazon.

• Identify, achieve and report on savings and sustainability value targets for category sourcing activities.

• Align with internal customers and understand the business application of the category.

• Build the category metrics model based on input from the category team to track and monitor performance to the category strategy; measure actual vs planned savings and advise team of trends, escalate issues and own action plans.

A day in the life

• You will deliver market leading low-cost, innovative, and sustainable service solutions to help our Operations teams succeed and delight customers with value, selection and convenience. Additionally, you will undertake initiatives to ensure continuity of service supply.

• You will collaborate to seek inputs and manage outputs from our external suppliers as well as internal cross-functional partners.

• You may have to adapt and sometimes take different roles from strategy development to project management to rapidly meet customer needs.

• You will focus on deep diving categories to unlock value and help deploy services at scale for Operations.

About the team

• Autonomy to innovate and deliver new approaches that impact the bottom and the top line.

• Grow in a fast-pace environment where every day is day one.

• Surrounded by inspiring and diverse individuals.

• Learn from people with a wide variety of professional backgrounds.

• Opportunity to develop new skills and opportunities through lateral, geographical or functional moves.

This role can be based in:
Luxembourg
Barcelona

- Bachelor's degree
- Knowledge of Excel at an intermediate level (e.g., pivot tables & charts, multiple criteria lookups, nested logical/IF formulas, data cleansing, array formulas, etc.)
- Experience in supply chain
- Experience being responsible/leading large and complex negotiations
- Experience working cross functionally with tech and non-tech teams
- Experience using data and metrics to drive improvements

- Experience in program or project management
- Experience in complex problem solving, and working in a tight schedule environment
- Experience implementing repeatable processes and driving automation or standardization

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