Supply Chain Manager, North American Ground Services, FAST, Fleet, Aviation Sourcing & Technical
Amazon Air is seeking a Supply Chain Manager to identify and develop game-changing air transportation solutions for Amazon’s middle-mile transportation network, with the aim of ultimately improving our customers’ experience. Work will make a significant, measurable impact on the business goals for Amazon Air’s Fleet, Aviation Sourcing & Technical (FAST) team. If you want to work for a great company and have the opportunity to delight our customers, then join us in making Amazon history!
This leader will manage multiple internal and external discussions concurrently, including but not limited to hosting business reviews and contract negotiations with external suppliers. The position can be based in Bellevue, WA OR Nashville, TN.
Key job responsibilities
- Establishes the benchmark and targets for ground services cost
- Negotiates pricing and contracts with our ground services vendors to meet budget targets
- Develops long-term strategies and influences cross-category buying processes and standards
- Conduct macroeconomic and category spend analysis utilizing data from Amazon’s spend analytics cube and external market data.
- Conduct market and supplier research to enhance and inform sourcing and negotiation strategies.
- Gather insights from the analysis, consolidation and scoring of vendor proposals, and make recommendations to Category Managers and business partners.
- Evaluate supplier core competencies and competitive positioning using industry cost models and benchmarking analysis
- Provide guidance to internal stakeholders on procurement processes and maintain procurement ethics in accordance with Amazon’s global policies.
- Ability to travel up to 10%
- Bachelor's degree
- 2+ years of relevant strategic sourcing and category management in indirect categories such as professional services, support or maintenance spend, supply chain, forecasting, manufacturing, sourcing/procurement, or vendor management experience
- Experience being responsible/leading large and complex negotiations
- Experience in stakeholder management, dealing with multiple stakeholders at varied levels of the organization
- Experience in analyzing data to drive decisions
- Knowledge of Excel at an intermediate level (e.g., pivot tables & charts, multiple criteria lookups, nested logical/IF formulas, data cleansing, array formulas, etc.)
- Master's degree
- 4+ years of negotiations/cost savings, supplier excellence, and risk mitigation experience
- Experience in driving end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership
- Experience in program or project management
- Experience in aviation, transportation and labor planning
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $77,200/year in our lowest geographic market up to $141,500/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
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