Are 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 Leaders 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 forwardlooking areas of opportunity. As the Spend Leader you will seek alignment of key stakeholders creation of the targetsolution and orchestration of required actions to enact change and drive the target outcome. The Spend Leader will define metrics and standup the required mechanisms to inspect the initiatives from which the Spend Leader and enact necessary improvements as well as harvest learnings to feed into parallel and future initiatives.
Key job responsibilities
Key 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 standup mechanism to track and audit performance
Establish relationships with key stakeholders and customers
Direct involvement in strategic planning processes and communication
About the team
Vision:
SPOs 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 GPOs impact and influence as the site procurement interface to global customers through supply and quality assurance of noninventory goods and services.
7 years of working cross functionally with tech and nontech 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
Bachelors degree in business economics supply management or finance
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
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $128600/year in our lowest geographic market up to $212600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on jobrelated knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity signon 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 This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.