Sr Procurement Project Manager Infrastructure Planning and Sourcing

Amazon is hiring a Sr Procurement Project Manager to support AWS Infrastructure Operations. We are a diverse team of highly motivated engaged and responsive professionals that support the core infrastructure of Amazon Web Services business. If you want to be a part of a team that has a daily impact on company success this is a great opportunity for you.

We are looking for a collaborative individual to administer sourcing requirements for services materials and equipment. You will work with internal customers to evaluate and qualify vendors issue and manage competitive bids manage ordering and support the implementation of catalogues contracts and managerial reports. You will provide support as necessary to ensure that all required contracts are fully in accordance to local legislation and following Amazons policies. Moreover create and track KPIs/Reports for Controllership and Fiduciary Controls.

The ideal candidate for this Sr Procurement Project Manager role is a selfstarter a creative critical thinker with a curious mindset who is willing to learn. You must be an effective negotiator leader and communicator to be able to work independently and generate highquality work product in a cohesive creative everchanging and sometimes ambiguous environment.

Because this position involves direct contact with business owners and external entities you must have a professional demeanor and be able to communicate and interact with people at every level internally and externally including upper management.

Hold or be able to attain an Australian Government Security Vetting Agency clearance (see job responsibilities
Responsibilities include:

* Educate internal customers and vendors on all relevant procedures and policies especially those related to S&TP (Spending & Transaction Policy) and segregation of duties
* Partner with internal customers to positively influence spending decisions
* Serve as the primary point of contact for vendor evaluation qualification and competitive bidding needs
* Create improve and document tools and processes that recognize and address customer vendor and cost management needs
* Manage and ensure the integrity of vendor data and all data gathered through competitive bids
* Ensure all relevant business controls are enforced and satisfied
* Collaborate with team customers and internal business partners to identify areas for cost improvement
* Support or drive development of or changes to processes to better procure equipment and services
* Support full ProcuretoPay process working with stakeholders to determine requirements and scope supplier selection requests for proposals contracting and all followon activities.

Keys to success in this role include sound judgement and excellent written and verbal communication skills. The candidate should be able to extract insights from data and be able to communicate clearly appropriate triggers and actions.

* Analytical data driven approach with an attention to detail
* Excellent written and oral communication skills and the ability to meet tight deadlines and prioritize workloads
* Ability to translate large amounts of data into useful information and draw conclusions
* Ability to communicate complex financial concepts to audiences with varied levels of fluency
* Experience with endtoend procuretopay process
* Excellent creative thinking skills with emphasis on developing innovative solutions to solve complex problems that may not have one clear answer
* Ability to work with technical and nontechnical business owners/partners to overcome obstacles and deliver results

About the team
Here at AWS we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employeeled affinity groups reaching 40000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings and we host annual and ongoing learning experiences including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (diversity) conferences. Amazons culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 16 Leadership Principles which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives learn and be curious and earn trust.

Our team also puts a high value on worklife balance. Striking a healthy balance between your personal and professional life is crucial to your happiness and success here which is why we arent focused on how many hours you spend at work or online. Instead were happy to offer a flexible schedule so you can have a more productive and wellbalanced lifeboth in and outside of work.

Amazon is seeking dynamic driven and passionate professionals for our Amazon Web Services Team. These future Amazonians must hold a government clearance and be willing to go to one of five locations to complete specialized training to prepare for deployment in a data centre region. It is expected that training will be completed over a duration of 612 months. Once training is completed individuals will be relocated to the permanent location.

Bachelors Degree from an accredited university or equivalent combination of education and experience
8 years experience in a Procurement organization performing sourcing vendor management contract management negotiating complex purchases and bidding
4 years experience developing category strategies and pricing models as a Project Manager who can prioritize workload and manage complex projects within cost and schedule


Masters degree in Business Procurement & Supply chain or relevant business discipline.
Ability to communicate and report on market intelligence data including commodity trends and labor indexes
Experience in data centers engineering an infrastructure service provider or similar technology company
Developing market intelligence to communicate across the organization
Experience with creating Procurement systems and tools
Proven ability to implement category strategies globally
Proven ability to deep dive and develop innovative ideas for process challenges


Acknowledgement of country:
In the spirit of reconciliation Amazon acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.

IDE statement:
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 disability age or other legally protected attributes.

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