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Description

Amazon Global Supply Chain and Transportation Procurement (GSCTP) is seeking a Senior Procurement Manager overseeing vendor sourcing and management responsibilities. This role will focus on leading vendor negotiations, developing consistent negotiation methodology, and ensuring alignment with internal stakeholder teams. A successful candidate will be able to deliver on improved financial results, delivery performance, capacity and sustainability efforts. This individual will be expected to manage multiple vendors concurrently and directly, working with a team that contributes significantly to overall transportation and supply chain strategy within the International Global Mile space. Internal and external relationship management is paramount, along with strong analytical and problem-solving skills. In this role you will be responsible for delivering successful negotiations at scale ($50MM or more in total spend), working with senior leadership of external vendors and providing thought-leadership within procurement and several Amazon stakeholder teams.

Key job responsibilities

• Negotiation: Delivering improved financial performance through large scale negotiations for services contracts

• Leadership: Leading stakeholder and partner teams indirectly to build a track record of consistently delivering valuable projects

• Strategy: Design and implement strategy for individual procurement projects and the overall procurement function to support all the goals of the business, not just financial goals.

• Bias for Action: Delivering end-to-end contract projects, working through the many obstacles along the way and planning for unexpected challenges to maintain momentum.

• Communication: Communicating expectations and requirements with external and internal leadership teams, writing well-reasoned and data-driven proposals, performing your own data analysis as necessary.

• Technical Problem Solving: Utilizing problem-solving skills to work through difficult challenges, including the full procurement cycle from sourcing, negotiations, legal requirements and internal systems updates.

A day in the life

Amazon offers a full range of benefits that support you and eligible family members, including domestic partners and their children. Benefits can vary by location, the number of regularly scheduled hours you work, length of employment, and job status such as seasonal or temporary employment. The benefits that generally apply to regular, full-time employees include:

1. Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage

2. Maternity and Parental Leave Options

3. Paid Time Off (PTO)

4. 401(k) Plan

Learn more about our benefits here: https://www.amazon.jobs/en/internal/benefits/us-benefits-and-stock

This role can be located in LUX, London (LHR16), or Prague (PRG14).

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

Luxembourg, LUX

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree

• Procurement experience

• Transportation and supply chain experience

• Multi-million dollar contract negotiation experience

• Proven experience of working cross functionally across several teams experience

• Experience of creating, defining, and implementing procurement strategy experience

• Experience of using Microsoft Excel to manipulate and analyze large sets of data experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree

• Master's degree in Logistics, Supply Chain, Engineering, Mathematics or Equivalent

• Significant experience with advanced Microsoft Excel functionality

• If you are not sure that every qualification on the list above describes you exactly, we'd still love to hear from you! At Amazon, we value people with unique backgrounds, experiences, and skillsets. If you’re passionate about this role and want to make an impact on a global scale, please apply!

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