Senior Transportation Procurement Manager - AWS Cloud Logistics, Procurement

Description

AWS Cloud Logistics (ACL) is looking for a talented, driven, and highly analytical, Transportation Procurement Manager with a hunger for driving change and impact in sourcing transportation providers in NALA (North and Latin America).
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 ACL leadership with visibility to internal and external factors that can impact ACL's ability to secure transportation capacity at the best rate to support rack built and delivery.
Manage procurement RFP’s, RFQ’s, and RFI’s for inbound and outbound freight in the NALA region.
Support Global RFP by communicating regional needs and assessing transportation providers' capability to meet regional expectations.
Drive cost savings through competitive bidding, commercial negotiations, and rate benchmarking, using tools and industry knowledge that aligns with market competition.
Build relationships with cross-functional stakeholders (legal, tax, risk management, business units) to enable global procurement support, including project facilitation, tracking, risk escalation, and best practice sharing.
Develop and maintain supplier performance metrics (delivery, , cost) through scorecards and quarterly business reviews to improve supplier performance and strengthen partnerships.
Conduct supplier spend analysis and reporting by category, region, and supplier to establish spend visibility and identify optimization opportunities.
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.


A day in the life
Daily check-ins with Operations: alignment on capacity needs and demand forecasts
AI-Powered Data Analysis: utilize AI to trends 18-month historical pricing data on the key lanes. Compare rates and benchmark against market.
Launching Regional RFPs: identify the need to map new lanes, source pricing events using our sourcing tool aligned with LSP strategy.
Engage LSPs on market dynamics, emerging risks, and rate positioning strategy.
Cross-Functional Alignment Meeting: Active participant in meetings with Finance, Operations, Legal, and Claims.

About the team
We are customer obsessed in our approach to sourcing transportation for ACL. We move at an extremely fast pace, making hundreds of decisions aligned with global strategy while leveraging inputs from Operations, Security, and Finance. Our team is motivated to be exceptionally well-informed during LSP discussions. At ACL, we are building the future of transportation sourcing for the industry through industry knowledge, strategic tools, and customer-centric listening.

Basic Qualifications

- 6+ years of related industry experience
- 2+ years of program, project or product management, or leading product implementation experience
- 8+ years of data analysis using tools such as Excel, Pivot Tables, SQL, Tableau, or equivalent experience
- 8+ years of high volume manufacturing operations or sourcing environments experience
- Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Business, Engineering, or a related field
- Experience in data analysis using tools such as Excel, Pivot Tables, SQL, Tableau, or equivalent
- Experience in high-volume manufacturing operations or sourcing environments
- Experience with Continuous Improvement and Six Sigma methodologies
- Experience in global supply chain management, managing cross-functional teams in a fast-paced consumer electronics product company
- Experience in program, project or product management, or leading product implementation

Preferred Qualifications

- Master's degree in Business Administration, Finance, Economics, Computer Science, or a related field
- Experience in data centers, infrastructure service providers, or related technology companies
- Experience in negotiations with global suppliers with a proven track record in cost reduction
- Experience in procurement practices working with engineering, supply chain and Tier 1 OEM partners
- Experience practicing best-in-class procurement processes (category management, benchmarking, should-cost models, RFX, reverse auction, contracting, or equivalent)

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