Category Manager, AMET

You will drive continuous improvement, innovation, prevent legal and supply risk, and sustainability.
Create a category strategy in conjunction with internal customers to ensure there is a comprehensive, unified approach for the category.
• Achieve yearly cost saving or value targets appropriate to the category aligned with annual budget processes.
• Define and report on key metrics that measure effectiveness of projects, initiatives and cost savings
• Champion standards and process improvements
• Build category strategies which are scalable and reflective of the Amazon growth plans
• Support Operations team with any upcoming sourcing requirement in the country across different categories
Key job responsibilities
• Standardize procurement processes, operational tools, operating standards, and supplier management activities.
• Create, manage and communicate RFX documents for key requirements, leading the tender process through to techno-commercial evaluation, post tender negotiation, contracting, purchase order and delivery.
• Drive category strategies for the spend under management while strengthening strategic relationships with preferred vendors delivering scalable and sustainable results against business goals supported by a culture of continuous improvement and performance benchmarks
• Act as a spend category market intelligence provider to anticipate strategic opportunities and keep key stakeholders informed
• Drive the performance of category suppliers in Supplier Relationship Management activities to mitigate risk, improve performance and add value to Amazon
• Analyze historic spend data to support budget pricing calculations, rate cards and catalogue adoption and spend/sourcing strategies.
• Strong negotiation skills and a track record of earning stakeholder trust, taking ownership and delivering results
• Work closely with vendors to ensure full deployment of Amazon Supply chain standards
• Manage a number of projects simultaneously, across various stakeholders and spend categories while being able to manage priorities effectively to support and achieve on time delivery of requirements and site launch dates.
• Work closely with leadership to develop long-term strategic plans to maximize value for Amazon
- Bachelor's degree
- 3+ years of program or project management experience
- 3+ years of working cross functionally with tech and non-tech teams experience
- 3+ years of defining and implementing process improvement initiatives using data and metrics experience
- 2+ years of supply chain experience
- Knowledge of Excel (Pivot Tables, VLookUps) at an advanced level and SQL
- 3+ years of driving end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership experience
- 3+ years of driving process improvements experience
- Experience in stakeholder management, dealing with multiple stakeholders at varied levels of the organization
- Experience building processes, project management, and schedules