AWS Infrastructure is looking for a talented, driven, and highly analytical, Transportation Procurement Manager with a hunger for driving change and impact in Asia. If you thrive on optimizing operations and delivering customer impacting results we have an opportunity for you. The successful candidate will have strong analytical and communication skills, and have a passion for using data to drive business decisions. The candidate will thrive by providing data-driven decision support and business intelligence that is timely, accurate, and actionable.
Key job responsibilities
- Provide AWS leadership with visibility and key terms of all global vendor pricing and strategy.
- Manage procurement RFP’s, RFQ’s, and RFI’s for inbound and outbound freight.
- Achieve cost savings through projects including bidding and commercial negotiations
- Build relationships with project stakeholders including legal, tax, risk management and various business stakeholders that enable the procurement organization to provide global support including facilitation, project tracking, risk escalation and best practice sharing for all global contracts.
- Develop and implement unified tools and information systems to support project planning, execution.
- Develop mechanisms and metrics to track supplier performance related to forecasting, delivery, quality, and cost.
- Support the creation of supplier scorecards to measure and track supplier performance.
- Facilitate business reviews to discuss best practices and issues and to ultimately improve supplier performance and strengthen business partnerships across teams.
- Benchmark rate information versus historic pricing and versus competition.
- Perform supplier spend analysis, including reporting to establish visibility of spend patterns by category, region, and supplier.
Basic qualifications
- 5+ years of program or project management experience
- 5+ years of supply chain experience
- Experience using data and metrics to determine and drive improvements
- Experience owning program strategy, end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership
Preferred qualifications
- 2+ years of driving process improvements experience
- Master's degree, or MBA in business, operations, human resources, adult education, organizational development, instructional design or related field
