senior operations Procurement Manager hybrid · Posted Jun 22, 2026

About this role

Amazon is hiring a senior-level Procurement Manager in the operations function based in Munich, Germany.

Role: Procurement Manager
Function: operations
Level: senior
Track: hybrid
Employment: Full-time
Location: Munich, Germany
Department: Project/Program/Product Management--Non-Tech
Posted: Jun 22, 2026

Job description

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Sr. Vendor Manager - Books Team, Germany

Amazon strives to be Earth's most customer-centric company where people can find and discover virtually anything they want to buy online.
Amazon hires the world's brightest minds and offers them an environment in which they can invent and innovate to improve the experience for our customers.

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We believe reading is essential for a healthy society; our mission is to inspire readers by making it easy to read more and get more out of reading. This spans all formats. We work every day on behalf of customers and readers to solve complex technical and business problems with ingenuity, simplicity and the spirit of innovation that is part of our DNA - and we want you to help in our continuing mission to reinvent reading.

The Books team in Germany is looking for a smart, team-oriented, highly analytical Sr. Vendor Manager to join our passionate and fast-paced team and help us scale our business. In the role you will develop CEO level business relationships and manage high impact projects.

The successful candidate will have exceptional project management, communication and analytical skills and big ideas on how to create great customer experiences. They will be detail-oriented, organized and capable of handling multiple projects at once, working to tight deadlines, dealing with multiple teams and corresponding with publishers. The right candidate will be ambitious and keen to move into a fast paced environment.

In this position candidates will:
- Manage strategic programs with leading publishers to create a great customer experience and help the books business and publishers grow
-Complete customer analysis, brainstorm and execute new initiatives to meet customer needs
-Analyse and track publishers' performance on key performance indicators
-Think backwards from the customer means thinking across reading/listening formats: physical books, kindle, Audible
-Work closely with the marketing, supply chain and product management teams within ww Books to align all efforts and deliver results

Basic Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree
- Experience with high-level negotiation and successful internal and external relationship management
- Speak, write, and read fluently in German
- Experience working in a fast paced, quickly changing or international environment
- Minimum 6 years of professional experience in business-to-business relationships, preferably in e-commerce, publishing, or related industrie

Preferred Qualifications

- Advanced degree, or MBA
- Past experience with digital technologies, e-commerce, supply chain and/ or content management

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