Procurement and Strategy Manager II

Amazon is hiring a Procurement and Strategy Manager II in Nashville, TN, to lead vendor sourcing and management within its Global Supply Chain and Transportation Procurement team. This role involves negotiating contracts, developing procurement strategies, and ensuring alignment with internal stakeholders to enhance financial performance, delivery, and sustainability. The candidate will manage multiple vendors, communicate effectively with leadership, and solve complex procurement challenges. This is a full-time position with no specific degree requirement.
Amazon Global Supply Chain and Transportation Procurement (GSCTP) is seeking a Procurement and Strategy Manager to oversee Vendor Sourcing and Management responsibilities. This role will focus on leading vendor negotiations, developing consistent negotiation methodology, and ensuring alignment with internal stakeholder teams. A successful candidate will be able to deliver on improved financial results, delivery performance, capacity and sustainability efforts.

This individual will be expected to manage multiple vendors concurrently and directly, working with a team that contributes significantly to overall transportation and supply chain strategy. Internal and external relationship management is paramount, along with strong analytical and problem-solving skills. In this role you will be 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.

Key job responsibilities
- Negotiation: Delivering improved financial performance through large scale negotiations for services contracts.
- Leadership: Leading stakeholder and partner teams indirectly to build a track record of consistently delivering valuable projects.
- Strategy: Design and implement strategy for individual 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 contract projects, working through many obstacles and unexpected challenges along the way in order to maintain momentum.
- Communication: Communicating expectations and requirements with external and internal leadership teams, writing well-reasoned and data-driven proposals, performing your own 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

About the team
Global team responsible for procurement related activities which include supporting and/or leading small to large scale sourcing events and contract negotiations. Works closely with internal stakeholders to understand business requirements and to ensure that all supplier related activities meet cost, capacity and service goals. .