Senior Category Manager, Food Services
Sector: Catering and Hospitality, Supply Chain and Procurement
Role: Senior Executive
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full Time
We are seeking a Senior Category Manager to strategically source Food Services for our global Customer Fulfillment network. This role will coordinate with several teams across Amazon and interact with our most important suppliers to satisfy organizational requirements. The person in this role will work and partner with multiple teams to develop and execute category sourcing strategies, deliver savings, and improve productivity across the category.
Key Responsibilities:
* Establish category sourcing strategies, lead cross-functional strategic sourcing teams, negotiate with suppliers, and execute contracts to optimize Amazon's competitive position.
* Drive relationships with category suppliers, achieving optimal solutions and cost of ownership that meets business goals supported by a culture of continuous improvement with performance benchmarks in use.
* Manage category suppliers to identify, monitor, and optimize opportunities.
* Act as a market intelligence provider regarding categories; anticipate strategic opportunities and keep key stakeholders informed.
* Drive category suppliers in Supplier Relationship Management activities to mitigate risk, improve performance, and add value to Amazon.
* Identify, achieve, and report on savings and sustainability value targets for category sourcing activities.
* Align with internal customers and understand the business application of the category.
* Build the category metrics model based on input from the category team to track and monitor performance to the category strategy; measure actual vs planned savings and advise team of trends, escalate issues, and own action plans.
You will deliver market leading low-cost, innovative, and sustainable service solutions to help our Operations teams succeed and delight Amazon.com customers with value, selection, and convenience. You will undertake initiatives to ensure continuity of service supply. You will collaborate to seek inputs and manage outputs from our external suppliers as well as internal cross-functional partners. You may have to adapt and sometimes take different roles from strategy development to project management to rapidly meet customer needs. You will focus on deep diving categories to unlock value and help deploy services at scale for Operations.
About the Team:
We offer autonomy to innovate and deliver new approaches that impact the bottom and top line. You will grow in a fast-paced environment where every day is day one. You will be surrounded by inspiring and diverse individuals. You will learn from people with a wide variety of professional backgrounds. You will have the opportunity to develop new skills and opportunities through lateral, geographical, or functional moves.
Basic Qualifications:
* Bachelor's degree
* Knowledge of Microsoft Excel at an advanced level, including pivot tables, macros, index/match, vlookup, VBA, data links, etc.
* Experience in supply chain
* Experience being responsible/leading large and complex negotiations
* Experience working cross-functionally with non-tech teams
* Experience using data and metrics to drive improvements
Preferred Qualifications:
* Experience in program or project management
* Experience in complex problem solving, and working in a tight schedule environment
* Experience owning program strategy, end-to-end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership