We are seeking a strategic, hands-on leader to own GPO's AI-powered Market Intelligence, Digital Cost Solutions, and Data Management capability under Sourcing Excellence team. This role leads a team responsible for transforming Market Intelligence into an AI-powered self-serve intelligence layer serving all GPO Category teams globally - while driving cost analytics, directly supporting Should-Costing project delivery and enabling Value Engineering workflows.

The role combines four capability streams:

- AI-Powered Market Intelligence - Governing and orchestrating a wide range of specialist MI agents (Construction, Packaging, Equipment, MHE, Services, Geopolitical Risk, Renewable Energy)

- Digital Cost Solutions and Analytics - Building bespoke AI tools, dashboards, and automation for Sourcing Excellence workflows

- Knowledge Hub & Datalake - Owning the SE core data infrastructure that underpins cost modelling, benchmarking, and intelligence across the organization

- Should-Costing & Value Engineering (VE) Support - Directly delivering should-costing projects alongside Cost Engineering and feeding cost improvement catalogues and data into VE workflows

Key job responsibilities

AI & Digital Solutions Strategy

- Define and execute the MI agent roadmap across all L1 categories

- Establish AI governance: accuracy, freshness, feedback loops, and cost-to-serve

- Drive self-serve adoption KPIs and scale the tool ecosystem

- Own the intelligence data supply chain - vetting, contracting, and maintaining 3P/public sources; defining the category-level source of truth

Team & Stakeholder Leadership

- Lead and develop a team of AI & MI Solutions Specialists

- Create a high-performance team culture balancing innovation velocity with operational rigor

- Serve as the intelligence partner to Category Managers, Cost Engineering, and cross-functional teams (Finance, Engineering, Operations)

- Manage external 3P data provider and technology partner relationships

Market Intelligence Integration with Cost & Value Engineering

- Structure market data, benchmarks, and cost indices for ingestion into should-cost models and value engineering workflows

- Own the Sourcing Excellence Knowledge Hub and core data-lake - data taxonomy, quality standards, access governance

- Ensure knowledge assets are discoverable, current, and structured for both human use and AI agent ingestion

- Directly support and deliver should-costing projects alongside the Cost Engineering team - building bottom-up cost models, validating cost drivers, establishing should-cost targets

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 5+ years of program or project management experience

- Experience implementing repeatable processes and driving automation or standardization

- Experience owning program strategy, end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership

- Bachelor's degree in supply chain management, operations, engineering, analytics or related field

- 7+ years of relevant strategic sourcing and category management in indirect categories such as professional services, support or maintenance spend, supply chain, forecasting, manufacturing, sourcing/procurement, or vendor management experience

- Experience deploying AI/ML or advanced analytics in a business context

- Track record transforming manual processes into self-serve/automated models

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Master's degree, or MBA in business, operations, human resources, adult education, organizational development, instructional design or related field

- Experience being responsible/leading large and complex negotiations

- Knowledge of AWS platforms such as S3, Glue, Athena, Sagemaker

- Experience with AWS Services including EC2, Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, SQS

- AI&Automation: Experience in leveraging AI, machine learning, or advanced analytics to improve cost modeling, automate procurement workflows, or build scalable datasets.

- You don't need to be a data scientist - but you should be comfortable working alongside AI teams, curating training data from real-world projects, validating model outputs, and identifying where intelligent automation can multiply your impact. A track record of enabling (not just consuming) AI tools in a procurement or engineering context is a strong differentiator.

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, TN, Nashville - 103,900.00 - 148,400.00 USD annually

USA, TX, Houston - 115,400.00 - 160,000.00 USD annually

USA, VA, Arlington - 115,400.00 - 160,000.00 USD annually

USA, WA, Bellevue - 115,400.00 - 160,000.00 USD annually