Senior Category Manager, AIS Supply Chain/IPS
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Job ID: 10395994 | Amazon Data Services Ireland Limited
As a Procurement Category Manager, you create and implement sourcing strategies for complex services categories, collaborating with internal business partners and suppliers to reduce risks and costs. You develop mechanisms and metrics to hold suppliers accountable for performance and delivery, drive results through competitive bidding, negotiation, and data analysis, and create global procurement processes and tools to drive innovation across teams.
Responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:
- Manage a complex category within the Maintenance, Repair, and Operation (MRO) domains
- Achieve cost savings through bidding and negotiations
- Analyze category data and metrics to drive procurement category strategies
- Understand trends in customers’ needs and concerns across categories and regions to influence priorities
- Lead supplier selection process across multiple categories, internal teams, and regions, creating longer‑term supplier selection strategies for management
- Ensure knowledge of supply market and supplier capabilities, technically and geographically
- Develop mechanisms and metrics to track supplier performance related to delivery, quality, and cost
- Create supplier scorecards to measure and track supplier performance
- Lead business reviews to discuss best practices and issues, improving supplier performance and strengthening business partnerships
- Innovate within the procurement space by automating and improving tools or processes to better support the procurement lifecycle
- Provide support throughout the contracting process and manage contracts post‑execution
- Regional leadership and stakeholder engagement, serving as regional leads to engage InfraOps cluster leadership
- Ensure locations have all services needed to operate data centers
- Communicate preferred suppliers to stakeholders
- Handle category‑specific questions, strategies, and innovations
- Manage supplier performance and contract negotiations
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Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Business, Engineering, or a related field
- Experience in data analysis using tools such as Excel, Pivot Tables, SQL, Tableau, or equivalent
- Experience in high‑volume manufacturing operations or sourcing environments
- Experience with Continuous Improvement and Six Sigma methodologies
- Experience in global supply chain management, managing cross‑functional teams in a fast‑paced consumer electronics product company
Preferred Qualifications
- Master's degree in Business Administration, Finance, Economics, Computer Science, or a related field
- Experience in data centers, infrastructure service providers, or related technology companies
- Experience in negotiations with global suppliers with a proven track record in cost reduction
- Experience in procurement practices working with engineering, supply chain and Tier 1 OEM partners
- Experience practicing best‑in‑class procurement processes (category management, benchmarking, should‑cost models, RFX, reverse auction, contracting, or equivalent)
Job Details
- IRL, D, Dublin
- Procurement
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