What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr Global Category Analyst, Global Corporate Procurement position at Amazon?
DESCRIPTION
Amazon is seeking a Global Category Analyst to join the Global Corporate Procurement team in our new Headquarters in Northern Virginia.
The Global Category Analyst will own project and data analysis leadership in support of: indirect spend analytics and strategic sourcing pipeline development; global leadership and team reporting dashboards; and supply market intelligence and benchmarks analysis. Categories spanning: Marketing, Professional Services, Software and Technology, HR, Travel, Temp Labor, Construction, and Facilities.
Primary responsibilities of this role will include:
• Conduct category spend analysis utilizing data from Amazon’s spend analytics cube and external market data.
• Project manage across global sourcing teams to build and maintain a robust pipeline of recommended strategic sourcing projects.
• Create robust global dashboards to provide insights and recommendations to improve, standardize, simplify, and drive strategy in the organization.
• Provide guidance to internal stakeholders on procurement data, tools, and processes.
Global Category Analysts have a strong bias for decision-making rooted in data and analytics. This is an exciting opportunity to be a part of a team that is having a daily impact on company success. This team will develop innovative data solutions to solve complex or ambiguous problems and scale for long-term impact.
This role will sit in our new headquarters in Northern Virginia, where Amazon will invest $2.5 billion dollars, occupy 4 million square feet of energy efficient office space, and create at least 25,000 new full-time jobs. Our employees and the neighboring community will also benefit from the associated investments from the Commonwealth including infrastructure updates, public transportation improvements, and new access to Reagan National Airport.
By working together on behalf of our customers, we are building the future one innovative product, service, and idea at a time. Are you ready to embrace the challenge? Come build the future with us!
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
Basic qualifications
• 5 years of business analytics and strategic indirect sourcing experience.
• Strong knowledge of data visualization tools (i.e., QuickSight, Tableau, or Power BI)
• Knowledge of SQL, Excel Macros, VBAs
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
Preferred qualifications
• Bachelor’s Degree.
• 7 years of business analytics and strategic sourcing experience, preferably including 5 years in an indirect procurement function at a multinational corporation with global contracts.
• Strong analytical skills and business acumen including the ability to distill, synthesize, and draw conclusions from large amounts of data.
• Strong project leadership skills, including the ability to manage multiple simultaneous projects requiring frequent communication, organization and time management
• In-depth understanding of complex transformation within spreadsheets containing large dataset.
• Strong project leadership skills, including the ability to manage multiple simultaneous projects requiring frequent communication, organization and time management.
• Knowledge of ETL process, and scripting language such as Python
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