As Amazon rapidly becomes the world's largest consumer of corporate services, our Global Corporate Procurement team is seeking a Indirect Procurement Manager to join the APAC team.
Indirect Procurement Manager , working under the general direction of more senior team members, manage strategic sourcing engagements as a central team supporting a wide range of Amazon and subsidiary business units.
In this pivotal role, you'll design innovative sourcing strategies and lead sourcing engagements across a wide range of business units.
Your mission? Improve performance, optimize efficiency, ensure top-notch quality, and enable new initiatives to launch and scale with lightning speed.
Demonstrating a passionate commitment to procurement excellence, you will flawlessly handle and execute sourcing initiatives, communicating efficiently and effectively with stakeholders across various business units.
Adept at juggling multiple priorities, you will thrive in the fast-paced, dynamic environment, contributing to both short-term tactical and long-term strategic efforts.
Indirect Procurement Manager will be considered for the Global Corporate Procurement Rotational Program. This two-three year program offers career development through exposure to multiple procurement functions.Strategic Sourcing Specialists will:
gain experience in various procurement categories, learn supplier risk management techniques, develop contract negotiation skills, build a network across the company, receive mentorship from senior leaders.
Does this sound like your next great challenge? If you're passionate about finding the right products, goods and services at the right time from the right suppliers, we want to hear from you.
Apply today
A day in the life
As Procurement Manager, you will support sourcing projects from start to finish.
This will involve closely engaging with a diverse array of internal and external stakeholders to identify sourcing strategy - that balances business needs, effort, and efficiencies.
Review spend data and market trends for key indirect spend categoriesParticipate in cross-functional team meetings to align on sourcing priorities and requirements
Conduct market research and prepare RFP documents for upcoming sourcing projects
Manage the RFP process, evaluate proposals, negotiate commercial deal terms and contracts, and create award recommendations
Contribute to the development of category management plans
Provide procurement analytics and insights to support data-driven decision making
Stay up-to-date on industry trends and best practices in strategic sourcing
About The Team
Key coverage areas are typical indirect corporate categories: Marketing, Professional Services, HR and Employee Services, Technology, Logistics, Real Estate and Facilities services.
Bachelor's degree or equivalent
3+ years of industry work experience
Preferred Qualifications
Experience working in a matrixed organization
A) 3+ years of in-depth experience in best-in-class procurement practices (category management, benchmarking, should-cost models, RFX, reverse auction, contracting, etc.).
B) MBA/MS degree.C) Extremely customer-focused and takes the time to understand the needs of the business.
D) Passionate self-starter with the highest integrity and ethics.
E) Strong negotiator with proven experience in setting negotiation strategies and conducting negotiations.
F) Working knowledge of the basic types of commercial agreement structures and the function and purpose of key legal terms.
G) Ability to assess risk and concisely explain complex issues to principal business owners.
I) Strong analytical skills including the ability to quickly synthesize, distill and draw conclusions on large amounts of disparate data.
J) Ability to manage multiple simultaneous projects requiring frequent communication, organization, time management, and problem-solving skills.
K) Excellent written and oral communication skills.
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