Accounting Specialist - DC - Capital Hill area Jobot
Washington, DC5 days ago
- $65,000–$80,000 Per Year
Highlights
Strategic Sourcing Specialists, working under the general direction of more senior team members, manage strategic sourcing engagements as a central team supporting a wide range of Amazon and subsidiary business units. As Amazon rapidly becomes the world"s largest consumer of corporate services, our Global Corporate Procurement team is seeking a Strategic Sourcing Specialist to join us in Arlington, VA.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Arlington, VA |
| Industry | Retail |
| Company Size | 10,000 employees or more |
| Year Founded | 1994 |
| Website | http://Amazon.com/militaryroles |
Description
Are you a Strategic Sourcing superstar looking to make a big impact?
As Amazon rapidly becomes the world"s largest consumer of corporate services, our Global Corporate Procurement team is seeking a Strategic Sourcing Specialist to join us in Arlington, VA.
Strategic Sourcing Specialists, working under the general direction of more senior team members, manage strategic sourcing engagements as a central team supporting a wide range of Amazon and subsidiary business units.
In this pivotal role, you"ll design innovative sourcing strategies and lead sourcing engagements across a wide range of business units. Your mission? Improve performance, optimize efficiency, ensure top-notch quality, and enable new initiatives to launch and scale with lightning speed.
Demonstrating a passionate commitment to procurement excellence, you will flawlessly handle and execute sourcing initiatives, communicating efficiently and effectively with stakeholders across various business units. Adept at juggling multiple priorities, you will thrive in the fast-paced, dynamic environment, contributing to both short-term tactical and long-term strategic efforts.
Does this sound like your next great challenge? If you"re passionate about finding the right products, goods and services at the right time from the right suppliers, we want to hear from you.
Come join our fast-paced, innovative team and help Amazon make history in Corporate Procurement.
Apply today!
A day in the life
As a Strategic Sourcing Specialist, you will support complex sourcing projects from start to finish. This will involve closely engaging with a diverse array of internal and external stakeholders to identify sourcing strategy - that balances business needs, effort, and efficiencies.
- Review spend data and market trends for key indirect spend categories
- Participate in cross-functional team meetings to align on sourcing priorities and requirements
- Conduct market research and prepare RFP documents for upcoming sourcing projects
- Manage the RFP process, evaluate proposals, negotiate commercial deal terms and contracts, and create award recommendations
- Contribute to the development of category management plans
- Provide procurement analytics and insights to support data-driven decision making
- Stay up-to-date on industry trends and best practices in strategic sourcing
About Company
At Amazon, we don’t wait for the next big idea to present itself. We envision the shape of impossible things and then we boldly make them reality. So far, this mindset has helped us achieve some incredible things. Let’s build new systems, challenge the status quo, and design the world we want to live in. We believe the work you do here will be the best work of your life.
Wherever you are in your career exploration, Amazon likely has an opportunity for you. Our research scientists and engineers shape the future of natural language understanding with Alexa. Fulfillment center associates around the globe send customer orders from our warehouses to doorsteps. Product managers set feature requirements, strategy, and marketing messages for brand new customer experiences. And as we grow, we’ll add jobs that haven’t been invented yet.
It’s Always Day 1
At Amazon, it’s always “Day 1.” Now, what does this mean and why does it matter? It means that our approach remains the same as it was on Amazon’s very first day – to make smart, fast decisions, stay nimble, invent, and stay focused on delighting our customers. In our 2016 shareholder letter, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos shared his thoughts on how to keep up a Day 1 company mindset. “Staying in Day 1 requires you to experiment patiently, accept failures, plant seeds, protect saplings, and double down when you see customer delight,” he wrote. “A customer-obsessed culture best creates the conditions where all of that can happen.” You can read the full letter here
Our Leadership Principles
Our Leadership Principles help us keep a Day 1 mentality. They aren’t just a pretty inspirational wall hanging. Amazonians use them, every day, whether they’re discussing ideas for new projects, deciding on the best solution for a customer’s problem, or interviewing candidates. To read through our Leadership Principles from Customer Obsession to Bias for Action, visit https://www.amazon.jobs/principles
Wherever you are in your career exploration, Amazon likely has an opportunity for you. Our research scientists and engineers shape the future of natural language understanding with Alexa. Fulfillment center associates around the globe send customer orders from our warehouses to doorsteps. Product managers set feature requirements, strategy, and marketing messages for brand new customer experiences. And as we grow, we’ll add jobs that haven’t been invented yet.
It’s Always Day 1
At Amazon, it’s always “Day 1.” Now, what does this mean and why does it matter? It means that our approach remains the same as it was on Amazon’s very first day – to make smart, fast decisions, stay nimble, invent, and stay focused on delighting our customers. In our 2016 shareholder letter, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos shared his thoughts on how to keep up a Day 1 company mindset. “Staying in Day 1 requires you to experiment patiently, accept failures, plant seeds, protect saplings, and double down when you see customer delight,” he wrote. “A customer-obsessed culture best creates the conditions where all of that can happen.” You can read the full letter here
Our Leadership Principles
Our Leadership Principles help us keep a Day 1 mentality. They aren’t just a pretty inspirational wall hanging. Amazonians use them, every day, whether they’re discussing ideas for new projects, deciding on the best solution for a customer’s problem, or interviewing candidates. To read through our Leadership Principles from Customer Obsession to Bias for Action, visit https://www.amazon.jobs/principles
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