What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Supply Chain Manager, Blink Supply Chain & Operations position at Lensa?
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Description
Lead Blink's negotiations with Contract Manufacturing partners for entire consumer product life cycles, including new product introductions, sustaining, and product retirements. You will reduce costs, ensure highest quality, and deliver on time to our delighted customers.
Key job responsibilities
Amazon Blink Supply Chain and Operations is seeking a Senior Procurement and Strategy Manager to oversee Contract Manufacturing Partner Sourcing and Management activities. This role will focus on leading vendor negotiations, developing consistent negotiation methodology, and ensuring alignment with internal stakeholder teams and affiliated Amazon procurement teams. A successful candidate will deliver improved financial results, delivery performance, effectively utilize capacity and drive sustainability efforts. This individual must manage multiple vendors concurrently and directly, working with a team that contributes significantly to overall operations and supply chain strategy and effectiveness. Internal and external relationship management is paramount, along with strong analytical and problem-solving skills. In this role you are responsible for delivering successful negotiations at scale, working with senior leadership of external vendors and providing thought-leadership within procurement and several Amazon stakeholder teams. Ability to travel internationally expected at 15% per year.
A day in the life
Key job responsibilities
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Description
Lead Blink's negotiations with Contract Manufacturing partners for entire consumer product life cycles, including new product introductions, sustaining, and product retirements. You will reduce costs, ensure highest quality, and deliver on time to our delighted customers.
Key job responsibilities
Amazon Blink Supply Chain and Operations is seeking a Senior Procurement and Strategy Manager to oversee Contract Manufacturing Partner Sourcing and Management activities. This role will focus on leading vendor negotiations, developing consistent negotiation methodology, and ensuring alignment with internal stakeholder teams and affiliated Amazon procurement teams. A successful candidate will deliver improved financial results, delivery performance, effectively utilize capacity and drive sustainability efforts. This individual must manage multiple vendors concurrently and directly, working with a team that contributes significantly to overall operations and supply chain strategy and effectiveness. Internal and external relationship management is paramount, along with strong analytical and problem-solving skills. In this role you are responsible for delivering successful negotiations at scale, working with senior leadership of external vendors and providing thought-leadership within procurement and several Amazon stakeholder teams. Ability to travel internationally expected at 15% per year.
A day in the life
Key job responsibilities
- Negotiation: Delivering improved financial performance through large scale negotiations for contract manufacturing.
- Leadership: Leading stakeholder and partner teams indirectly to build a track record of consistently delivering consumer products.
- Strategy: Design and implement strategy for procurement projects and the overall procurement function to support all the goals of the business, not just financial goals.
- Bias for Action: Delivering end-to-end New Product Introduction contract projects, working through many obstacles and unexpected challenges along the way in order to maintain momentum.
- Communication: Communicating product and process expectations and requirements with external and internal leadership teams, writing well-reasoned and data-driven proposals, performing data analysis as necessary.
- Technical Problem Solving: Utilizing problem-solving skills to work through difficult challenges, including the full procurement cycle from sourcing, negotiations, legal requirements and internal systems updates.
- 5 years of program or project management experience
- 5 years of supply chain experience
- Experience using data and metrics to determine and drive improvements
- Experience owning program strategy, end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership
- 2 years of driving process improvements experience
- Master's degree, or MBA in business, operations, human resources, adult education, organizational development, instructional design or related field
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
If you have questions about this posting, please contact support@lensa.com
