DescriptionAre you a procurement professional looking to build something new and exciting for the Global Procurement Organization (GPO) at Amazon? We are looking for people with a passion to innovated, build and lead commercial excellence for opportunities in unmanaged spend. Influence and earn trust across regions around the Globe to enable our organization to penetrate spend and delight our customers.The Spend Leader is a key member of the Site Procurement Operations (SPO) and the Global Procurement Spend Team. The Spend Leader is responsible for delivering capabilities to increase and penetrate spend that is not in scope today for GPO. The Spend Leader's mission is to closely collaborate with Category Procurement to enrich spend penetration, savings, supplier diversity, and catalog adoption. As a Spend Leader you will partner with a set of global strategic stakeholders to earn trust and deliver results while simultaneously picking up signals and patterns that allow the team to execute the strategies to drive broad adoption at the local level. The Spend Leader works directly with the Category pillars and Global Procurement Centralized Services teams to help define the roadmap of projects to come. In addition to identifying the pipeline, as GPO partners, these teams will help identify friction points, blockers, and forward-looking areas of opportunity. As the Spend Leader, you will seek alignment of key stakeholders, creation of the target-solution, and orchestration of required actions to enact change and drive the target outcome. The Spend Leader will define metrics and stand-up the required mechanisms to inspect the initiatives, from which the Spend Leader and enact necessary improvements as well as harvest learning's to feed into parallel and future initiatives.Key job responsibilitiesKey Job Responsibilities: Prioritizing the “right” projects to deliver results Define criteria to determine total cost of ownership or the best return on investment Delivering results on metrics and goals Enable or stand-up mechanism to track and audit performance Establish relationships with key stakeholders and customers Direct involvement in strategic planning processes and communicationAbout the teamVision:SPO’s vision is to seamlessly integrate global procurement expertise with local insights, fostering a ‘glocal’ strategy. We will optimize our worldwide resources, understand local nuances and deliver agile and optimized solutions to our customers. By transcending borders, we will empower sustainable and profitable growth for Amazon.Mission:We maximize GPO's impact and influence as the site procurement interface to global customers through supply and quality assurance of non-inventory goods and services.Basic Qualifications
7+ years of working cross functionally with tech and non-tech teams experience
7+ years of program or project management experience
7+ years of managing, analyzing and communicating results to senior leadership experience
10+ years of category procurement experience utilizing RFx process
Experience implementing repeatable processes and driving automation or standardization
Experience defining program requirements using data and metrics
Risk Management with general understanding of geopolitics impacts across the supply chain
Bachelor's degree in business, economics, supply management, or finance
Preferred Qualifications
Experience delivering projects within scope, time, budget with quality
Certified Professional in Supply Management (CSPM)
Certified Purchasing Manager (CPM)
Certified Professional Purchasing Manager (CPPM)
MBA
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.Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $128,600/year in our lowest geographic market up to $212,600/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 . This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.