Senior Sourcing Manager, Buying, Planning, & Instock Management

The Amazon team is looking for an entrepreneurial, analytical and highly motivated Sourcing Manager to join our team to launch new high quality products for our global customers. The Sourcing Manager will develop the sourcing approach, drive the supplier selection process, negotiate contracts, and manage our portfolio of manufacturers on a global scale. The Sourcing Manager will be an expert at selecting factories across the globe that can reliably deliver products on spec at high quality levels and targeted costs. The Sourcing Manager will also regularly monitor key aspects of factory and vendor performance levels through a scorecard and audit process. The ideal candidate will be a self-starter with a passion for delivering high quality products to customers. This candidate will possess amazing negotiation abilities, partner management skills, project management skills, strong financial acumen, a high degree of ownership and integrity, a high attention to detail, excellent communication skills, and be a great team player. The Sourcing Manager’s primary responsibilities will include:

• Develop the sourcing strategy, along with process for evaluating supplier potentials

• Identifying and developing relevant quality protocols and a system for managing quality on an ongoing basis

• Analyzing the marketplace to find the broadest set of capable manufactures globally who provide the best product cost, quality and delivery objectives – insuring maximum bottom-line impact