Procurement Category Lead, DC-PROs, Data Center Sourcing & Procurement

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a dynamic, growing business unit within Amazon.com that provides a broad set of infrastructure services including computing power, storage options, networking and databases available on demand. We are the leader in cloud computing and our pioneers are embracing innovation, building the future, and making history!

Data Center Sourcing & Procurement supports the Data Center Capacity Delivery team in obtaining the best services at the lowest costs, and manages the full “Supplier Lifecycle” including Strategic Sourcing and Intake, Onboarding, Solicitations, Spending and Transaction Policy (S&TP) Compliance, Contract Management, Supplier Development, and portions of requisitioning and payment operations.

We are seeking a Procurement professional to support the Americas Data Center Construction space.

As a Procurement Category Lead, you will work with the Procurement Category Manager in creating and supporting Vendor qualifications, request for proposals, data analysis, vendor performance dashboards for construction, due diligence, engineering services categories. You will also provide input on procurement processes and tools to help identify waste and enable innovation across teams. The ideal candidate must be collaborative, but also work with autonomy. To be successful in this role you must be highly analytical; think strategically; have a sense of urgency to meet customer timelines; exhibit an intense curiosity and learning drive, succeed in a fast-paced environment; engage key stakeholders where needed; and have a high level of customer focus. Also, you must have a demonstrated track record of managing multiple projects and driving them to completion to meet business objectives. It will be critical to embrace and model Amazon’s Leadership Principles and have an entrepreneurial spirit with a “get it done” mentality.

Key job responsibilities

• Be/become a subject matter expert on all systems and policies related to procurement.
• Manage the supplier onboarding and qualification process
• Manage all assigned bid / tender events, and related follow-on contract generation supporting the category manager.
• Develop and enhance process and training documentation
• Develop dashboards for metrics reporting
• Accurately enter purchase requisitions using information provided by business owners and suppliers.
• Participate in requisitioning processes.
• Audit internal tools and processes to ensure data integrity for systems the team relies on including the team's wiki page, vendor management system, SharePoint site, shared drive, etc.
• Train team members on new and existing procedures related to systems and purchasing.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree
• 5+ years of relevant work experience in a procurement organization
• 4+ years experience as purchaser, buyer, or other operational role within a procurement organization

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced degree in Supply Chain Management or Finance
• Advanced Excel skills
• Knowledge of tools used in procurement
• Demonstrated success in a metrics-oriented environment and an ability to create, track and report out on metrics
• Experience with competitive bidding
• Demonstrated experience training and giving presentations
• Meets/exceeds Amazon’s functional/technical depth and complexity for this role
• Experience as purchaser, buyer, or other operational role within a procurement organization
• Proficiency in MS Office Suite including MS Excel and MS Word
• Meets/exceeds Amazon’s leadership principles requirements for this role
• Meets/exceeds Amazon’s functional/technical depth and complexity for this role

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