Amazon
Category Manager, Procurement Category
$77K–$129K
Austin, TX +4 · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 21, 2026
- Location
- Austin, TX
Nashville, TN
Arlington, VA
Bellevue, WA
Houston, TX - Experience
- 3+ years in cross-functional work with tech and non-tech teams and 3+ years implementing process improvement initiatives; preferred: 5+ years driving end-to-end delivery and 3+ years driving process improvements.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree
About the job
Leads sourcing strategy and supplier relationships for material handling equipment (MHE) systems and components, securing capacity, cost, quality, and delivery for Amazon projects.
What you'll do
- Develop and execute MHE sourcing strategies, including supplier selection, proposal review, and negotiations.
- Build supplier and business-partner relationships and support multi-year plans for spend, supplier capacity, and performance.
- Use metrics and data to improve procurement processes and drive continuous improvement and value engineering.
What they ask for
- Experience leading large, complex negotiations and solving complex problems in tight-schedule environments.
- 3+ years working cross-functionally with tech and non-tech teams.
- 3+ years defining and implementing data- and metrics-based process improvements.
- Bachelor's degree; intermediate Excel knowledge; proven end-to-end strategic sourcing and category management experience.
Nice to have
- 5+ years driving end-to-end delivery and communicating results to senior leadership; 3+ years driving process improvements.
- Stakeholder management, process building, project management, scheduling, or advanced Microsoft Excel experience.
Pay
77,200.00 - 115,800.00 USD annually (base salary); 85,800.00 - 128,600.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
Excel, Microsoft Excel, VBA, pivot tables, macros, index/match, vlookup
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