Senior Category Leader, Global Procurement Organization, Global Procurement Organization (GPO)

At Amazon, we"re working to be the most customer-centric company on earth. To get there, we need exceptionally talented, bright, and driven people. If you"d like to help us build the place to find and buy anything online, this is your chance to make history.

We are seeking a leader with procurement and sustainability experience to lead the development of our strategy to reduce our scope3 emissions globally for Global Customer Fulfillment. The person in this role will coordinate with several teams across Amazon and will interact with our most important suppliers to satisfy organizational requirements. The position will work and partner with multiple teams to develop and execute the supplier strategy to hit our ambitious scope 3 goals for Packaging.

Key job responsibilities

• Is the chief architect for the vision, roadmap, and strategy to deliver our net zero carbon footprint across all Packaging scope 3 emissions.
• Responsible for mechanisms and tools to track historical records, build and maintain forecasts, and improve data fidelity of WWGS's carbon footprint.
• Works with Category leaders to analyze our current footprint postion and develop a short-and-long term decarbonization strategy for Packaging. This work is essential to support material financial decisions.
• Leads setting and tracking WWGS's carbon intensity reduction goals on an annual and long-term (2030 and beyond) basis to get alignment across executives.
• Independently drives narratives and briefs for executives on the carbon program.
• Drives tactical decarbonization roadmaps to pilot and implement lower carbon solutions.
• Key lead and liaison for carbon across our Procurement organization.

KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS:

• Earn the trust of key stakeholders to drive alignment with the business
• Create a category strategy in conjunction with internal customers to ensure there is a comprehensive, unified approach for the category.
• Achieve yearly cost saving or value targets appropriate to the category aligned with annual budget processes.
• Define and report on key metrics that measure effectiveness of supply and cost savings
• Champion standards and process improvements

Candidate must be able to travel, up to 20%