Senior Category Manager, WWRGD- Retail Growth & Development

Amazon"s fast-scaling Worldwide Retail, Growth and Development (WWRGD) Grocery business is looking for a Senior Category Manager to join the team. In this role, you will drive category-level procurement strategy for the WWRGD Grocery business, with direct ownership of financial performance, supplier partnerships, and total cost of ownership. Your scope will span Grocery FFE, building systems, design and construction contractors, consultants, and materials.

As a Senior Category Manager (Program Manager III), you will be a high-impact individual contributor at the center of WWRGD"s growth engine, executing multi-category programs that directly support Amazon"s ambition to scale from ~560 to 1,700+ grocery locations. You will:

• Drive end-to-end category management across Grocery retail and industrial FFE, building systems, design consulting, and construction materials and services.
• Own supplier negotiations, business plans, and savings realization for assigned categories - managing for total cost of ownership, lead time, sustainability and supply chain resilience.
• Drive cross-functional alignment with key partners - building trust and shared ownership around category strategy and business outcomes.
• Work at the intersection of procurement and merchandising strategy, CapEx investment, and customer and associate experience.

Join a team navigating ambitious growth with a mission to scale and senior leadership visibility.

Key job responsibilities

• Own and manage the end-to-end lifecycle for assigned procurement categories - from strategy execution through supplier performance and continuous improvement.
• Set category-level strategic direction that optimizes for long-term cost, quality, supply continuity, and customer outcomes.
• Conduct financial analysis of business opportunities; drive initiatives to meet and exceed financial goals, including CapEx investment and category P&L accountability.
• Initiate, structure, and negotiate partnerships with new and existing suppliers; develop business plans for new opportunities and execute project plans for pilots, launches, and long-term operations.
• Act as the business owner for assigned categories, accountable for identifying and driving realization of savings opportunities.
• Manage supplier relationships and performance; serve as the primary business contact for key suppliers.
• Build and streamline processes that simplify operations and drive continual improvement.
• Analyze industry trends and evolving technology to proactively identify supply base opportunities that reduce cost, minimize risk, protect continuity of supply, and support sustainability.
• Drive cross-functional alignment with key partners - building trust and shared ownership around category strategy and business outcomes.
• Own program status communication; build consensus on project prioritization and act decisively to implement and capture value.
• Travel up to 20%.

A day in the life

On any given day, you might be modeling total cost of ownership for a new equipment specification, aligning with Design and Construction partners on a category sourcing timeline, or leading a supplier negotiation to secure lead time commitments ahead of a pipeline milestone.

You"ll engage regularly across Indirect Procurement, Operational Excellence, Merchandising, and site-level buying teams - translating business requirements into procurement decisions that move with speed and confidence. The problems you"ll solve range from supply disruption and cost pressure to building procurement mechanisms that scale across multiple retail formats and geographies.

About the team

Our mission is to deliver best-in-class category leadership across the WWRGD value chain, driving cost optimization, scalability, speed to market, and supplier excellence through innovative strategies, deep industry expertise and collaborative partnership. As WWRGD scales grocery development, our team ensures supply chain resilience through procurement capabilities that support ambitious growth targets while maintaining cost discipline and operational efficiency. We lead category strategy across design consulting, construction materials and services, Grocery retail and industrial FFE, and building systems. Team members target improvement in total cost of ownership, working closely with extended stakeholders to align procurement strategies with business requirements.