Senior Global Strategic Sourcing Manager, Global Corporate Procurement - Arlington - Amazon Services LLC ID-12951

April 26, 2025

Description

As we rapidly become the world's largest consumer of corporate services in many categories, the Global Corporate Procurement team is seeking a Global Strategic Sourcing Manager to join our team in Arlington, VA.

Are you looking to create and communicate a bold direction that inspires results? Do you think differently and look around corners for ways to serve customers? Are you passionate about finding the right products, goods and services, at the right time, from the right suppliers? Are you right a lot and looking for an opportunity to raise the bar?

Global Strategic Sourcing Managers design strategic sourcing strategies and lead engagements across a wide range of business units to improve performance, optimize efficiency, ensure high quality, and enable new initiatives to launch and scale rapidly. GSSMs think long term and act on behalf of the entire company.

Every day is Day One at Amazon, where our goal is to leverage suppliers to make better, do better, and be better for our customers, our employees, our partners, and the world at large. GSSMs routinely interact with C-level supplier executives and advise senior Amazon leaders on innovative sourcing strategies and solutions that create sustainable, long-term return on investment.

GSSMs are highly effective communicators, who are comfortable selling the value of strategic sourcing to internal clients across lines of business.

Categories under management for this role include: Treasury, Insurance and Brokerage, Accounting and Audit. However, we often source items beyond the aforementioned.

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Key Job Responsibilities

This is an exciting opportunity to be a part of a team that has a meaningful, measurable impact on company success.

Primary Responsibilities

Able to dive deep across multiple business lines who use similar categories and commodities to leverage our supplier base to optimize performance, quality, efficiency, and cost.
Earn trust with internal business partners; establish enduring relationships, build a robust understanding of commodities, strategic business direction, requirements, and priorities across suppliers and/or spend categories.
Develop global sourcing strategies to deliver against business plans, goals, and objectives for internal clients.
Evaluate supplier core competencies and competitive positioning using industry cost models and benchmarking analysis; leveraging key insights to inform and support the Strategic Sourcing strategy development process.
Drive results by leveraging RFx, spend pattern analysis, contract analysis, bid evaluation, negotiations, and supplier consolidation.
Work with business and finance leaders to identify and drive savings and controllership improvements, optimizing the return on investment and total cost of ownership.
Serve as an advisor, facilitator, and educator to internal stakeholders on developing and executing sourcing strategies.
Engage the appropriate subject matter experts, including Legal, Tax, Risk, and Information Security, to evaluate and develop strategies to mitigate third-party risk.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 5+ years of relevant strategic sourcing experience, to include at minimum, 5 years in an indirect procurement function, at an international organization.

• 5+ years of experience practicing best-in-class procurement processes (strategic sourcing management, bench-marking, should-cost models, RFX, reverse auction, contracting, etc.).

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Tenacious negotiator with proven experience in setting negotiation strategies and conducting negotiations.

• Expert understanding of, and deep experience with, multi-step strategic sourcing processes and category management strategies.

• Extensive knowledge of contracts, worker orders, and purchase orders, as well as, the function and purpose of key legal terms.

• Extremely customer-focused, taking the time to understand the needs of the business.

• Experience working in a large, global, highly matrixed organization, and works easily in multi-business unit project settings; able to facilitate teamwork across corporate boundaries.

• Strong analytical and financial skills including the ability to quickly synthesize, distill, and draw conclusions on large amounts of disparate data.

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