Job ID: 2867853 | Amazon Data Services Ireland Limited Amazon Web Services provides a highly reliable, scalable, and low cost cloud platform that powers thousands of businesses in over 190 countries. AWS Infrastructure Supply Chain & Procurement organization works to deliver cutting edge solutions to source, build and maintain our socially responsible data center supply chains. We are a team of highly motivated, engaged, and responsive professionals who enable the core sustainable infrastructure of AWS. Come join our team and be a part of history as we deliver results for the largest cloud services company on Earth! We are seeking a Procurement professional to support the EMEA data center operations space. As a Procurement Category Manager, you will create and implement sourcing strategies for at least one complex services category and collaborate with internal business partners and suppliers to reduce risks and costs for Amazon. You will develop mechanisms and metrics to hold suppliers accountable for performance and delivery. Additionally, you will drive results through methods that include competitive bidding, negotiating, and analyzing data and market trends for your category. You will also create global Procurement processes and tools to drive innovation across teams. The ideal candidate thinks long term, drives multiple initiatives, and communicates appropriately and influences customers and suppliers at all levels. You must be collaborative, but also work with significant autonomy. To be successful in this role you must be highly analytical; think strategically and globally; have a sense of urgency to meet customer timelines; exhibit an intense curiosity and learning drive; succeed in a fast paced environment; engage and influence key stakeholders; and have a high level of customer focus and business judgement. Also, you must have a demonstrated track record of managing multiple projects and driving them to completion to meet business objectives. It will be critical to embrace and model Amazons Leadership Principles and have an entrepreneurial spirit with a get it done mentality. Key job responsibilities Manage a category within the Maintenance, Repair, and Operations (MRO) domains Achieve cost savings through bidding and negotiations Plan and execute effective negotiation strategies with vendors Analyze category data and metrics to drive Procurement category strategies Understand trends in customers needs and concerns, across categories and regions, to influence customers priorities Build strong relationships with customers and ensure customer satisfaction Lead supplier selection process across multiple categories, internal teams, and regions, and create longer term supplier selection strategies for management Lead business reviews to discuss best practices and issues and to ultimately improve supplier performance and strengthen business partnerships Provide support throughout the contracting process, as well as management of contra