Job Description
DESCRIPTION
Lead Blink's negotiations with Contract Manufacturing partners for entire consumer product life cycles, including new product introductions, sustaining, and product retirements. You will reduce costs, ensure highest quality, and deliver on time to our delighted customers.
Key job responsibilities
Amazon Blink Supply Chain and Operations is seeking a Principal Procurement and Strategy Manager to oversee Contract Manufacturing Partner Sourcing and Management activities. This role will focus on leading vendor negotiations, developing consistent negotiation methodology, and ensuring alignment with internal stakeholder teams and affiliated Amazon procurement teams. A successful candidate will deliver improved financial results, delivery performance, effectively utilize capacity and drive sustainability efforts. This individual must manage multiple vendors concurrently and directly, working with a team that contributes significantly to overall operations and supply chain strategy and effectiveness. Internal and external relationship management is paramount, along with strong analytical and problem-solving skills. In this role you are responsible for delivering successful negotiations at scale, working with senior leadership of external vendors and providing thought-leadership within procurement and several Amazon stakeholder teams. Ability to travel internationally expected at 15% per year.
A day in the life
Key job responsibilities
- Negotiation: Delivering improved financial performance through large scale negotiations for contract manufacturing.
- Leadership: Leading stakeholder and partner teams indirectly to build a track record of consistently delivering consumer products.
- Strategy: Design and implement strategy for procurement projects and the overall procurement function to support all the goals of the business, not just financial goals.
- Bias for Action: Delivering end-to-end New Product Introduction contract projects, working through many obstacles and unexpected challenges along the way in order to maintain momentum.
- Communication: Communicating product and process expectations and requirements with external and internal leadership teams, writing well-reasoned and data-driven proposals, performing data analysis as necessary.
- Technical Problem Solving: Utilizing problem-solving skills to work through difficult challenges, including the full procurement cycle from sourcing, negotiations, legal requirements and internal systems updates.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 7+ years of working cross functionally with tech and non-tech teams experience
- 7+ years of program or project management experience
- 7+ years of managing, analyzing and communicating results to senior leadership experience
- 7+ years of working cross functionally across several teams experience
- 10+ years of supply chain experience
- Bachelor's degree
- Experience implementing repeatable processes and driving automation or standardization
- Experience defining program requirements and using data and metrics to determine improvements
Job Tags
Full time, Contract work,