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Category Manager, Services, Global Procurement Organization (GPO)-May 2024
Nashville
May 11, 2025
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About Category Manager, Services, Global Procurement Organization (GPO)

  Description

  Amazon's Global Procurement Organization tackles business challenges that help internal customers with innovative procurement strategies. We create value in the supply chain, strive for optimization, and act with one global voice and vision. The Category team owns the strategic relationships with suppliers & internal stakeholders. The team identifies & leads strategic sourcing activities to lower overall total cost of ownership for Amazon operations, ensuring equipment & service availability meet business owner requirements. The team develops & negotiates framework agreements to reduce risk & support local teams in project specific needs relevant to category.

  This role in the facility services team will have broad responsibility to define the procurement strategy within the waste management category, sourcing vendors and innovative tools and processes to support a large network of Amazon stakeholders across multiple business lines.

  Key job responsibilities

  Develop and deliver long term sourcing strategies, lead key initiatives with cross-functional teams; drive the decision making process of the category roadmap with regional senior leadership

  Drive commercial relationships with suppliers, with a principal objective of achieving optimal cost and performance

  Lead supplier performance management including improving sustainability & social responsibility

  Coordinate and collaborate with local teams to deploy and manage the implementation of your defined strategies

  A day in the life

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

  Learn from people with a wide variety of professional backgrounds

  About the team

  Waste management category supports the collection, transport, treatment and disposal of waste and prevention of waste production through process improvements, reuse and recycling. Waste management is an important element of environmental protection and the category is key to supporting Amazon’s global sustainability pledges.

  We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

  Houston, TX, USA | Nashville, TN, USA | Seattle, WA, USA | Washington, DC, USA

  Basic Qualifications

  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

  Bachelor's degree

  Knowledge of Excel (Pivot Tables, VLookUps) at an advanced level and SQL

  Experience defining program requirements and using data and metrics to determine improvements

  Preferred Qualifications

  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

  Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

  Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $62,400/year in our lowest geographic market up to $150,100/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

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