Amazon.com Services LLC

Supply Chain/Transportation Management, Supply Chain Management, fulfillment ops

GlobalSourcingManager,ProcurementCategory

$86–129k Houston, Texas, United States FULL TIME
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Global Sourcing Manager, Procurement Category at Amazon.com Services LLC. Skills: Procurement category, Supplier management, Retrofit sourcing, Cost optimization. Engage with Megatron team. Provide solutions through sourcing”

What You'll Achieve.

Achieve shorter lead times; Achieve lower cost; Achieve increased flexibility; Achieve increased capacity; Reduce costs; Compress project lifecycles; Advance solution quality; Improve capital efficiencies; Optimize costs; Ensure continuity of supply; Ensure cost efficient supply; Reduce CapEx spend; Optimize capital spend efficiency

Industry & Context.

Supply Chain/Transportation Management, Supply Chain Management, fulfillment ops
Problems you'll solve

Diving deep

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

5+ years strategic sourcing, 5+ years category management, 5+ years program timeline experience, 5+ years developing supplier strategies, 3+ years leading complex programs

Nice to Have

3+ years end to end delivery, 3+ years driving process improvements, Experience stakeholder management, Experience building processes, Experience project management, Experience schedules

What You'll Do.

Engage with Megatron team

Provide solutions through sourcing

Achieve shorter lead times

Achieve increased flexibility

Achieve increased capacity

Partner with procurement teams

Qualify MHE Retrofit projects

Manage MHE Retrofit projects

Source MHE Retrofit projects

Develop strategic relationships

Manage strategic relationships

Compress project lifecycles

Advance solution quality

Improve capital efficiencies

Implement strategic sourcing strategies

Ensure continuity of supply

Ensure cost efficient supply

Facilitate supplier understanding

Drive supplier continuous improvement

Drive supplier development

Support global supplier selection

Support global supplier development

Support global supplier base expansion

Manage global supplier metrics

Manage global supplier data reporting

Support Lean programs

Support Cost Out programs

Optimize capital spend efficiency

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Cross-functional teams; Functional teams; Global teams; Regional teams; MHE category teams; OMHS teams

Communication Scope

Written communication; Verbal communication; Negotiation

Process & Methodology

Program management, Project management

Full Job Description

Global MHE procurement retrofits team lead and secures supplier MHE upgrade technologies, solutions, and capacity required to deliver the highly automated FC technology road-map through site modernization and equipment upgrades across all Amazon Business Units. Our team builds MHE retrofit sourcing category, supplier development and selection for Plan of Record (POR) and Engineering Retrofit projects across North America, customer fulfillment (GCF), specialty fulfillment (GSF), and transportation (ATS) operations. These solutions require continuous engineering development, emerging and disruptive technology innovations, and long-term supplier partnerships while working closely with expanded MHE category and OMHS teams to secure supply chain continuity. We are filling a key role on our North America retrofits sourcing team, which will be exclusively supporting the Megatron program and driving retrofit program awards to pull-in 2027/2028 programs to build up peak capacity in our First-Mile network Amazon is seeking an industry proven and detail oriented indirect sourcing Category manager (CM) to qualify, develop and manage our key material handling supplier base. Successful candidates are natural self-starters who have prior experience in the integrated automation project life cycle, contract manufacturing, and system supplier and/or technology sourcing. Our CM must be agile with the ability to quickly adapt strategies, plans and solutions in response to dynamic business requirements. They also must be comfortable interfacing and driving various functional teams and individuals at all levels of the organization. Open minds, customer focus, innovation empowerment, advanced technologies, team first mindset, and individual drive enable our North America MHE retrofit team to deliver the most advance fulfillment solutions in the world. Key job responsibilities • Engage with the Megatron team as the Single-Threaded Lead from the Retrofit team to provide the best solutions t

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