Strategic Sourcing Specialist - Special Projects Global Corporate Procurement GCP

Amazon Global Corporate Procurement (GCP) is looking for highperforming individuals to serve as the goto resource for early stage and highly confidential businesses across Amazon. This role will drive cost efficiencies and help internal teams scale quickly. The Special Projects Strategic Sourcing Specialist supports a wide variety of functions (SourcetoPay negotiation vendor management process improvement supply chain) for internal businesses that need to rapidly scale from small projects to multimillion dollar opportunities.

Strategic Sourcing Specialists working under the general direction of more senior team members manage strategic data analysis to identify new customers and drive sourcing engagements across Amazon teams and subsidiaries. In this role youll design innovative sourcing and vendor management strategies and lead sourcing engagements across a wide range of business units. Your mission Improve performance optimize efficiency ensure topnotch quality and enable new initiatives to launch and scale with lightning speed.

Demonstrating a passionate commitment to solving innovative problems you will help identify new business opportunities for the Sourcing team handle and execute sourcing initiatives and vendor management; communicating efficiently and effectively with stakeholders across various business units. Adept at juggling multiple priorities you will thrive in the fastpaced dynamic environment contributing to both shortterm tactical and longterm strategic efforts.

Does this sound like your next great challenge If youre passionate about finding the right products goods and services at the right time from the right suppliers and comfortable with ambiguity we want to hear from you.

Come join our fastpaced innovative team and help Amazon make history in Corporate Procurement.
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A day in the life
As a Special Projects Strategic Sourcing Specialist you will support complex sourcing projects from start to finish. This will involve closely engaging with a diverse array of internal and external stakeholders to identify sourcing strategy that balances business needs effort and efficiencies.

* Identify new internal customers and sourcing opportunities utilizing analysis from multiple sources
* Review spend data contract pipelines and market trends for key spend categories
* Contribute to crossfunctional team meetings to align on SourcetoPay priorities and requirements
* Contribute to ongoing customer and vendor management including development of category and vendor management plans
* Partner with business finance and legal leaders to identify and implement ProcuretoPay best practices including savings and controllership
* Work closely with engineers scientists technical stakeholders and leadership to ensure products and services meet the needs of the business
* Conduct market research and prepare RFP documents for upcoming sourcing projects
* Manage the RFP process evaluate proposals negotiate commercial deal terms and contracts and create award recommendations
* Provide procurement analytics and insights to support datadriven decision making
* Stay uptodate on industry trends and best practices in strategic sourcing
* Track spend and consumption across key agreements. Identify associated risks

About the team
Our Global Corporate Procurement (GCP) special projects team engages with early stage Amazon teams that do not otherwise have dedicated procurement business development or vendor management support. This team focuses on the unique needs of early stage teams to increase cost efficiencies and as a valueadded accelerator. The team serves as internal consultants and embedded procurement resources across multiple categories and industries.


3 years of relevant strategic sourcing vendor management business development or data analysis experience.
BS/BA Degree.

3 years of indepth experience in bestinclass procurement practices (category management benchmarking shouldcost models RFX reverse auction contracting etc. including highly technical or highly complex spend categories.

Experience working in a startup environment to address immediate tactical purchasing needs while building for futurescale.

MBA/MS degree.

Extremely customerfocused and takes the time to understand the needs of the business.
Passionate selfstarter with the highest integrity and ethics.
Strong negotiator with proven experience in setting negotiation strategies and conducting negotiations.
Working knowledge of the basic types of commercial agreement structures and the function and purpose of key legal terms.
Ability to assess risk and concisely explain complex issues to principal business owners.
Strong analytical skills including the ability to quickly synthesize distill and draw conclusions on large amounts of disparate data.
Ability to manage multiple simultaneous projects requiring frequent communication organization time management and problemsolving skills.
Excellent written and oral communication skills.

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