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Amazon Category Manager, AMET in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Description

You will drive continuous improvement, innovation, prevent legal and supply risk, and sustainability.

Create a category strategy in conjunction with internal customers to ensure there is a comprehensive, unified approach for the category.

• Achieve yearly cost saving or value targets appropriate to the category aligned with annual budget processes.

• Define and report on key metrics that measure effectiveness of projects, initiatives and cost savings

• Champion standards and process improvements

• Build category strategies which are scalable and reflective of the Amazon growth plans

• Support Operations team with any upcoming sourcing requirement in the country across different categories

Key job responsibilities

• Standardize procurement processes, operational tools, operating standards, and supplier management activities.

• Create, manage and communicate RFX documents for key requirements, leading the tender process through to techno-commercial evaluation, post tender negotiation, contracting, purchase order and delivery.

• Drive category strategies for the spend under management while strengthening strategic relationships with preferred vendors delivering scalable and sustainable results against business goals supported by a culture of continuous improvement and performance benchmarks

• Act as a spend category market intelligence provider to anticipate strategic opportunities and keep key stakeholders informed

• Drive the performance of category suppliers in Supplier Relationship Management activities to mitigate risk, improve performance and add value to Amazon

• Analyze historic spend data to support budget pricing calculations, rate cards and catalogue adoption and spend/sourcing strategies.

• Strong negotiation skills and a track record of earning stakeholder trust, taking ownership and delivering results

• Work closely with vendors to ensure full deployment of Amazon Supply chain standards

• Manage a number of projects simultaneously, across various stakeholders and spend categories while being able to manage priorities effectively to support and achieve on time delivery of requirements and site launch dates.

• Work closely with leadership to develop long-term strategic plans to maximize value for Amazon

Basic Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree

  • 3+ years of program or project management experience

  • 3+ years of working cross functionally with tech and non-tech teams experience

  • 3+ years of defining and implementing process improvement initiatives using data and metrics experience

  • 2+ years of supply chain experience

  • Knowledge of Excel (Pivot Tables, VLookUps) at an advanced level and SQL

Preferred Qualifications

  • 3+ years of driving end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership experience

  • 3+ years of driving process improvements experience

  • Experience in stakeholder management, dealing with multiple stakeholders at varied levels of the organization

  • Experience building processes, project management, and schedules

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