Strategic Sourcing Specialist, Global Corporate Procurement
Amazon
Date: 3 weeks ago
City: Bengaluru, Karnataka
Contract type: Full time
Description
Are you a Strategic Sourcing superstar looking to make a big impact?
As Amazon rapidly becomes the world's largest consumer of corporate services, our Global Corporate Procurement team is seeking a Strategic Sourcing Specialist to join us in Bengaluru, India.
Key job responsibilities
Strategic Sourcing Specialists, working under the general direction of more senior team members, manage strategic sourcing engagements as a central team supporting a wide range of Amazon and subsidiary business units. In this pivotal role, you'll design innovative sourcing strategies and lead sourcing engagements across a wide range of business units. Your mission? Improve performance, optimize efficiency, ensure top-notch quality, and enable new initiatives to launch and scale with lightning speed.
Demonstrating a passionate commitment to procurement excellence, you will flawlessly handle and execute sourcing initiatives, communicating efficiently and effectively with stakeholders across various business units. Adept at juggling multiple priorities, you will thrive in the fast-paced, dynamic environment, contributing to both short-term tactical and long-term strategic efforts.
Does this sound like your next great challenge? If you're passionate about finding the right products, goods and services at the right time from the right suppliers, we want to hear from you.
Come join our fast-paced, innovative team and help Amazon make history in Corporate Procurement.
Apply today!
A day in the life
As a 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.
Key coverage areas: Marketing, Professional Services, Employee Services, Technology, Logistics, Real Estate and Facilities services.
Basic Qualifications
Company - ADCI - Karnataka - A66
Job ID: A2991225
Are you a Strategic Sourcing superstar looking to make a big impact?
As Amazon rapidly becomes the world's largest consumer of corporate services, our Global Corporate Procurement team is seeking a Strategic Sourcing Specialist to join us in Bengaluru, India.
Key job responsibilities
Strategic Sourcing Specialists, working under the general direction of more senior team members, manage strategic sourcing engagements as a central team supporting a wide range of Amazon and subsidiary business units. In this pivotal role, you'll design innovative sourcing strategies and lead sourcing engagements across a wide range of business units. Your mission? Improve performance, optimize efficiency, ensure top-notch quality, and enable new initiatives to launch and scale with lightning speed.
Demonstrating a passionate commitment to procurement excellence, you will flawlessly handle and execute sourcing initiatives, communicating efficiently and effectively with stakeholders across various business units. Adept at juggling multiple priorities, you will thrive in the fast-paced, dynamic environment, contributing to both short-term tactical and long-term strategic efforts.
Does this sound like your next great challenge? If you're passionate about finding the right products, goods and services at the right time from the right suppliers, we want to hear from you.
Come join our fast-paced, innovative team and help Amazon make history in Corporate Procurement.
Apply today!
A day in the life
As a 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.
- Review spend data and market trends for key indirect spend categories
- Participate in cross-functional team meetings to align on sourcing priorities and requirements
- 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
- Contribute to the development of category management plans
- Provide procurement analytics and insights to support data-driven decision making
- Stay up-to-date on industry trends and best practices in strategic sourcing
Key coverage areas: Marketing, Professional Services, Employee Services, Technology, Logistics, Real Estate and Facilities services.
Basic Qualifications
- 3+ years of relevant strategic sourcing experience.
- BS/BA Degree.
- 3+ years of in-depth experience in best-in-class procurement practices (category management, benchmarking, should-cost models, RFX, reverse auction, contracting, etc.).
- MBA/MS degree.
- Extremely customer-focused and takes the time to understand the needs of the business.
- Passionate self-starter with the highest integrity and ethics.
- Good 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.
- Experience working in a large, global, highly matrixed organization.
- Good 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 problem-solving skills.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
Company - ADCI - Karnataka - A66
Job ID: A2991225
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