Completed Bachelor’s Degree in Supply Chain Management, Business, Engineering, Economics, Business Analytics or related field.
- Fluent in Portuguese, Spanish, and English.
- Experience in a sourcing or supply chain management or equivalent role.
- Team leadership experience.
- Experience in Oracle, MS tool suite and ability to learn proprietary systems.
- Practiced analytical skills including the ability to distill, synthesize, and draw conclusions on large amounts of data.
- Negotiation and supplier relationship experience required.
Job summary
At Amazon, we're working to be the most customer-centric company on earth. To get there, we need exceptionally talented, bright, and driven people. If you'd like to help us build the place to find and buy anything online, this is your chance to make history.
Key job responsibilities
- Establish category sourcing strategies, lead cross-functional strategic sourcing teams, negotiate with suppliers and execute contracts to optimize Amazon’s competitive position.
- Drive appropriate relationships with category suppliers, with a principal objective of achieving the optimal solution and cost of ownership that meets the business’ goals supported by a culture of continuous improvement with performance benchmarks in use.
- Manage category suppliers to proactively identify, monitor and optimize opportunities.
- Act as a market intelligence provider regarding categories; anticipate strategic opportunities and keep key stakeholders informed.
- Drive category suppliers in Supplier Relationship Management activities to mitigate risk, improve performance and add value to Amazon.
- Identify, achieve and report on savings and value targets for category sourcing activities.
- Master’s degree preferred in Supply Chain Management, Business, Engineering, Operations, Analytics or related.
- Lean / Six-Sigma knowledge.
- Product Management/Retail Vendor Management experience.