Amazon

Sourcing Manager, Amazon

Posted On

March 26, 2025

Location

Bengaluru, Karnataka

Experience Level

Freshers/Experienced

Job Type

Buying, Planning, & Instock Management

Apply By

April 15, 2025

Job Description

The Amazon team is looking for an entrepreneurial, analytical and highly motivated Sourcing Manager to join our team to launch new high quality products for our global customers. The Sourcing Manager will develop the sourcing approach, drive the supplier selection process, negotiate contracts, and manage our portfolio of manufacturers on a global scale. The Sourcing Manager will be an expert at selecting factories across the globe that can reliably deliver products on spec at high quality levels and targeted costs. The Sourcing Manager will also regularly monitor key aspects of factory and vendor performance levels through a scorecard and audit process.

The ideal candidate will be a self-starter with a passion for delivering high quality products to customers. This candidate will possess amazing negotiation abilities, partner management skills, project management skills, strong financial acumen, a high degree of ownership and integrity, a high attention to detail, excellent communication skills, and be a great team player.

Key job responsibilities
- Develop the sourcing strategy, along with process for evaluating supplier potentials
- Identifying and developing relevant quality protocols and a system for managing quality on an ongoing basis
- Analyzing the marketplace to find the broadest set of capable manufactures globally who provide the best product cost, quality and delivery objectives – insuring maximum bottom-line impact
- Distributing RFQs to suppliers and managing the process to receive completed quotes
- Choosing a final supplier(s) including negotiating the best cost and contract terms (including IP management).
- Managing the supplier relationship on an ongoing basis including holding the supplier to quality and compliance requirements as administered by Amazon’s product compliance team
- Managing the supplier manufacturing process to insure they meet delivery performance metrics. Also influencing the supplier’s manufacturing processes, technology decisions
- Developing negotiation strategies to deliver against business objectives and achieve sustainable relationships with suppliers.
- Developing risk mitigation strategies including contingency plans, lead-time reductions and supply chain efficiencies
- Partnering closely with cross functional teams including the retail category teams, legal, product compliance, social accountability, finance, transportation, and global suppliers to deliver on brand equity, net revenue, and customer satisfaction. 3+ years of account management, project or program management or buying experience
- 2+ years of market research analyst, product manager, or equivalent experience
- 3+ years of doing one of several roles: quantitative/financial analysis, retail buying, retail planning & allocation, product/project management, pricing, marketing or e-commerce experience
- Bachelor degree
- Experience driving internal cross-team collaboration

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