Amazon’s World-Wide Grocery Private Brands NA team is looking for a Packaging Sourcing Manager to join our team. The Packaging Sourcing Manager will engage with internal and external resources to deliver Amazon Grocery Private Brands products customers love. This role is designed to build strategic partnerships that support growth, cost optimization, while delivering sustainability initiatives.
The ideal candidate will have and in-depth knowledge and experience packaging and souring that can demonstrate a bias for action, think big, ownership, deliver results, and have strong customer empathy. This candidate will have experience diving deep to gain customer insights, launching successful new products, and developing strong relationships with project stakeholders and suppliers. The candidate will possess attention to detail, excellent communication skills, the ability to drive consensus across multiple stakeholders and be a great team player. The ability to work independently and deal with an ambiguous environment is a must.


Key job responsibilities
Deliver front end sourcing activities that support new product development.
Building strategic supplier partnerships. Building cost models and delivering packaging cost savings across an expansive portfolio.
Driving packaging improvements with the business and across cross-functional stakeholders.
Ability to work hand in hand with Packaging Engineers to deliver end to end packaging strategies.
Working with third party co-packers to identify areas of opportunity for packaging consolidation or introducing innovative packaging solutions.
Continually find ways to drive cost out of our packaging efforts.
Identifying new packaging innovations that unlock new areas of opportunity for us.
Evaluating vendor prototypes and providing improvements/suggestions or alternative solutions
Advising senior management on the latest packaging sourcing trends and optimal solutions.
Building & maintaining accurate and up to date sourcing tools for packaging materials and procedures.
Providing technical support for root cause analysis of customer complaints related to packaging.