Category Manager, Energy Storage Solutions, Procurement Organization

Amazon seeks a Category Manager for Energy Storage Solutions in Arlington, VA, to lead procurement strategies that support the company's sustainability goals. The role involves sourcing innovative energy solutions, managing supplier relationships, and optimizing costs while enhancing operational productivity. The manager will collaborate with various internal teams and suppliers to ensure alignment with Amazon's climate pledge and improve service delivery across global operations.
Position: Category Manager, Energy Storage Solutions, Global Procurement Organization
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 (Worldwide Amazon Stores). 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.

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

Align with internal customers and understand the business application of the category

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 energy storage solutions that collect and save renewable energy 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

3+ years of relevant strategic sourcing and category management in indirect categories such as professional services, support or maintenance spend, supply chain, forecasting, manufacturing, sourcing/procurement, or vendor management experience

2+ years of working cross functionally with tech and non-tech teams experience

Bachelor's degree

Knowledge of Excel (Pivot Tables, VLookUps) at an advanced level and SQL

Experience being…