APAC Sourcing Manager, Data Center Services Procurement (DCSP)AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. We support all AWS data centers, and all of the servers, storage, networking, power, and cooling equipment that ensure our customers have continual access to the innovation they rely on. We work on the most challenging problems, with thousands of variables impacting the supply chain, and we're looking for talented people who want to help.You'll join a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, operations managers, and other vital roles. You'll collaborate with people across AWS to help us deliver the highest standards for safety and security while providing seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost for our customers. We are seeking a Procurement professional to support the APAC data center operations space.We are currently seeking a creative, driven, and forward‐thinking sourcing and procurement professional to join our Data Center Services Procurement team in APAC. The role focuses on sourcing and onboarding suppliers in APAC for Data Centre capex procurement categories including construction, energy and water infrastructure, controls, and professional services. The role develops and leverages market intelligence to diversify and develop our supplier base in new and existing regions within APAC to ensure a robust supply base that enables the business to scale quickly to meet our customer needs.Key job responsibilities
Understand business needs, internal customers' requirements and concerns across all assigned categories, and develop supplier sourcing strategies and timelines that address the specific business requirements for each category and country.Proactively engage, coordinate, and communicate with internal customers regularly and expeditiously on all sourcing activities.Leverage market intelligence about the industry and supply market to identify viable suppliers for all assigned categories in existing and new regions, and continually provide actionable insights to internal customers.Develop and implement key internal metrics and indicators to monitor and improve performance against business objectives, make informed decisions, and maintain sustainable supplier pools.Lead and manage all supplier onboarding activities, including negotiation of master contract terms with new suppliers to ensure they understand Amazon's business requirements.Drive process improvement initiatives that positively impact customers, stakeholders, and the team; create procedures and tools and simplify or improve those that already exist.Some travel is required (~30%).
Basic Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Business, Engineering, Finance, or a related technical field.Experience gathering business requirements, using industry-standard business intelligence tools to extract data, formulate metrics, and build reports.Experience driving process excellence and productivity improvement initiatives, including Kaizen methodologies.5+ years of supply chain, forecasting, manufacturing, sourcing/procurement, or vendor management experience.
Preferred Qualifications
Master's degree in Business Administration, Finance, Economics, Computer Science, or a related field.Experience creating an innovative global supply strategy for the organization that resulted in a tangible benefit to the business.Experience building measures and metrics, and developing reporting solutions.Knowledge of data center products and their global supply chains.Six‐Sigma or equivalent certification.
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