Senior Category Manager, Renewable Energy

DESCRIPTION

Want to help accelerate Amazon’s energy transition to net-zero carbon emissions for a better world? Join our team that procures low-cost, sustainable and reliable energy for Worldwide Amazon Stores Operations to help meet Amazon's climate pledge goals.

At Amazon, more than ever, our customers desire value, selection, convenience and sustainable products. We source the energy powering our operations that makes all this possible to delight our customers

We are seeking a leader with procurement experience to strategically source products and services for our global fulfillment and transportation operations. This leader will coordinate with several teams across Amazon and will interact with our most important suppliers to satisfy internal customer requirements. Partnering with multiple teams, this role involves developing and executing category sourcing strategies, delivering lower cost and carbon while improving operations productivity.

This role can be based in Barcelona, London or Luxembourg.

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 sustainability value targets for category sourcing activities
- Build the category metrics model based on input from the category team to track and monitor performance to the category strategy; measure actual vs planned savings and advise team of trends, escalate issues and own action plans

A day in the life
- You will source innovative and market leading renewable energy solutions (onsite solar, wind, geothermal, etc.) to help support decarbonization of electricity grids and our buildings, improve grid reliability and deliver lower cost to serve our operations.
- You will focus on deep diving categories to unlock value and help deploy emerging technologies at scale for our operations
- You will collaborate to seek inputs and manage outputs from our external suppliers as well as internal partners across Worldwide Operations, Engineering Services, Reliability & Maintenance Engineering, Sustainability, Workplace Health & Safety and Finance
- You may have to adapt and sometimes take different roles from strategy development to project management to rapidly meet customer needs

About the team
Our global category management team procures low-cost, sustainable and reliable energy solutions enabling Amazon’s fulfillment and transportation operations to delight customers. These solutions primarily include electric/gas utilities, renewable energy and storage, hydrogen infrastructure and fuel cells, microgrids and energy audit services.

Our team's vision is to accelerate Amazon’s energy transition to net-zero carbon emissions for a better world by executing robust category strategies and innovating relentlessly on supply chain cost and quality.

We are customer-first, love data and innovate fearlessly. We believe in strategic partnerships and an inclusive mindset to unlock and execute the best ideas.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience in program or project management
- Experience in supply chain
- Experience using data and metrics to determine and drive improvements
- Experience owning program strategy, end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership
- Experience being responsible/leading large and complex negotiations
- Experience working cross functionally with tech and non-tech teams
- Experience managing accounting/finance process improvement and/or technology projects with aggressive schedules

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Master's degree, or MBA in business, operations, human resources, adult education, organizational development, instructional design or related field
- Experience leading process improvements
- Experience working in a matrixed organization
- Experience working in an Energy industry
- Experience procuring Energy solutions such as renewable energy (solar, wind, geothermal)
- Experience developing and executing category strategy to procure and scale emerging energy and sustainability technologies