Category Manager, AIS Supply Chain- IPS: Procurement

AWS Infrastructure Services Procurement Category ManagementAWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. In other words, we're the people who keep the cloud running. We support all AWS data centers and all of the servers, storage, networking, power, and cooling equipment that ensure our customers have continual access to the innovation they rely on. We work on the most challenging problems, with thousands of variables impacting the supply chain — and we're looking for talented people who want to help. You'll join a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, operations managers, and other vital roles. You'll collaborate with people across AWS to help us deliver the highest standards for safety and security while providing seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost for our customers. And you'll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion. The IPS Procurement Category Management Org is responsible for the procurement of all third party provided services required for the operation of our Data Center infrastructure globally, including Colo and Edge facilities for externally delivered services not provided by the facility owner. The team is responsible for the identification, on boarding and performance management of suppliers as well as developing category strategies, conducting competitive tendering processes, supplier negotiations and the preparation of associated Work Orders. The team is structured into three regions, each led by a regional manager, with each regional team composed of category managers with responsibility for the management of specific areas of spend within the region and a cohort of procurement specialists who support the category managers. The category management approach facilitates a strategic approach to procurement by facilitating in depth market analysis coupled with a cross functional approach to identify supplier and associated contracting options which are focused on meeting the particular needs of the business. While cost reduction will always be a key focus of the team, the principle cynosure of the team is the delivery of services that are keenly focused on increasing reliability and supporting enhanced availability through robust relationships which support continuity of operations. As service and quality levels can vary greatly, principally based on the skill set within a supplier local organization, the regional structure facilitates tailoring of category strategies to meet local market considerations and closely monitor supplier performance at the local level. Key job responsibilities include managing a complex category within the Maintenance, Repair, and Operation (MRO) and Facility Management domains, achieving cost savings through bidding and negotiations, driving collaboration to achieve long term value delivery, obtaining market intelligence, analyzing category data and metrics to drive Procurement category strategies, understanding trends in customers' needs and concerns, leading supplier selection process across multiple sub-categories, internal teams, and regions, creating longer-term supplier selection strategies for management, ensuring knowledge about the supply market, new innovations and supplier capabilities, technically and geographically, ensuring knowledge about sustainability, diversity, in-country value and having experience developing category strategies to incorporate same, developing mechanisms and metrics to track supplier performance related to delivery, quality, and cost, creating supplier scorecards to measure and track supplier performance, leading business reviews to discuss best practices and issues and to ultimately improve supplier performance and strengthen business partnerships, innovating within the procurement space, automating and/or improving tools or processes to better support the Procurement Lifecycle, providing support throughout the contracting process, as well as SRM and management of contracts post-execution. Travel domestic and international as required. Diverse Experiences AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn't followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don't let it stop you from applying.