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Senior Category Manager , Data Center Sourcing and Procurement

Amazon Leo · Arlington, Virginia, USA · On-site

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About Amazon Leo

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About the role

As a Category Manager, you will scale off-site Data Center Construction and build out scope and collaborate with internal business partners and suppliers to drive efficiencies, reduce risks, and costs for Amazon. You will develop mechanisms and metrics to hold suppliers accountable for performance and delivery. You will drive results through methods that include competitive bidding, negotiating, and analyzing data and market trends for your category. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

More about this role

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a dynamic, growing business unit within Amazon.com that provides a broad set of infrastructure services including computing power, storage options, networking and databases available on demand. We are the leader in cloud computing and our pioneers are embracing innovation, building the future, and making history! The Infrastructure team provides AWS and Amazon.com with the compute, network and data center capacity that are the foundations of the retail and cloud business.

Amazon is seeking a motivated and data-driven category manager to support the Americas data center design engineering organization. The candidate should have strong supply chain and procurement skills, analytical and financial acumen , communication capabilities and a hands-on passion to dive-deep into processes used in our data center operations network. Additionally, candidate must have proven skills in managing large-scale supply chain and procurement improvement projects.

Key job responsibilities

As a Category Manager, you will scale off-site Data Center Construction and build out scope and collaborate with internal business partners and suppliers to drive efficiencies, reduce...

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