Amazon
Procurement Manager, Procurement Manager, MENA PROCUREMENT
Amazon, Nashville, Tennessee, United States,
Procurement Manager, Procurement Manager, MENA PROCUREMENT
Amazon's India Operations' Opex Procurement team is hiring for a Procurement Manager for Opex Categories with Pan-India responsibilities. The Procurement Manager will manage facility and security workforce staffing services, pest control, drinking water, and tea/coffee category/subcategories and projects of increased complexity, operate with significant autonomy and discretion, and influence other internal and external teams.In this role, the person will define and own the capabilities, procurement strategies, and innovation roadmap for the category and team. The person will work closely with central and regional RME, Safety, employee relations, sustainable relations teams, and explore vendors and technologies to support the conveyance and automation projects. The person will lead in creating the industry benchmarked procurement processes and work side-by-side with internal and external stakeholders to deliver the best for the end customer experience.
Key job responsibilities:1. Evaluates key spend, performance, and compliance data to lead supplier or category decisions;2. Uses knowledge of the market segment for assigned categories to identify trends and mitigate potential market-related issues;3. Identify, develop, and implement sourcing strategy, works with cross-functional teams to ensure that strategies are executed, and effectively communicates initiatives to gain customer and supplier buy-in and to drive them towards anticipated outcomes;4. Builds mechanisms and leads initiatives to ensure that suppliers’ costs don’t extend beyond established goals. Constantly seeks ways to reduce spending and demonstrates the ability to advise business owners on whether a given purchase is reasonable and justified;5. Determines which suppliers should be positioned for long-term contracts based on the suppliers’ overall value to the business. Establishes and implements standards for partnering with these suppliers;6. Establishes supplier diversity/sourcing targets and expands current supplier selection options accordingly. Regularly evaluates these targets to raise the bar in terms of deliverables;7. Negotiate commercials, contract terms, and implementation plans with suppliers. Ensures compliance documents and contract management with suppliers by collaborating with legal, business, operations, and tax teams;8. Operates with significant autonomy and discretion;9. Promote the Procurement team internally and externally;10. Create mechanisms to measure supplier performances like scorecards, metrics, supplier QBRs, etc.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's degree- 7+ years of creating, defining, and implementing procurement strategy experiencePREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Master's degree- 10+ years of experience with a focus on supply chain, strategic sourcing, operational planning, or supplier management.- Experience and knowledge of soft services, facility and security workforce management, pest control, drinking water, and tea/coffee category suppliers, and the related procurement.- Ability to proactively manage supplier relationships to drive value for our customers.- Ability to exercise judgment in the evaluation of suppliers, supplier performance, and ensure that project goals, schedules, and performance requirements are achieved.- Exceptional skill in negotiation, contract development, and program management.- Strategic, long-term critical thinking and planning.- Financial analysis and value/TCO analysis.- Bias for action and urgency.- Customer obsession and clear concise communication skills.- Must have a positive, collaborative attitude.- Likes to challenge convention and strive for innovation.- Excellent verbal skills and above-average written communication skills.- Strong PC skills including Windows and Excel.
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Amazon's India Operations' Opex Procurement team is hiring for a Procurement Manager for Opex Categories with Pan-India responsibilities. The Procurement Manager will manage facility and security workforce staffing services, pest control, drinking water, and tea/coffee category/subcategories and projects of increased complexity, operate with significant autonomy and discretion, and influence other internal and external teams.In this role, the person will define and own the capabilities, procurement strategies, and innovation roadmap for the category and team. The person will work closely with central and regional RME, Safety, employee relations, sustainable relations teams, and explore vendors and technologies to support the conveyance and automation projects. The person will lead in creating the industry benchmarked procurement processes and work side-by-side with internal and external stakeholders to deliver the best for the end customer experience.
Key job responsibilities:1. Evaluates key spend, performance, and compliance data to lead supplier or category decisions;2. Uses knowledge of the market segment for assigned categories to identify trends and mitigate potential market-related issues;3. Identify, develop, and implement sourcing strategy, works with cross-functional teams to ensure that strategies are executed, and effectively communicates initiatives to gain customer and supplier buy-in and to drive them towards anticipated outcomes;4. Builds mechanisms and leads initiatives to ensure that suppliers’ costs don’t extend beyond established goals. Constantly seeks ways to reduce spending and demonstrates the ability to advise business owners on whether a given purchase is reasonable and justified;5. Determines which suppliers should be positioned for long-term contracts based on the suppliers’ overall value to the business. Establishes and implements standards for partnering with these suppliers;6. Establishes supplier diversity/sourcing targets and expands current supplier selection options accordingly. Regularly evaluates these targets to raise the bar in terms of deliverables;7. Negotiate commercials, contract terms, and implementation plans with suppliers. Ensures compliance documents and contract management with suppliers by collaborating with legal, business, operations, and tax teams;8. Operates with significant autonomy and discretion;9. Promote the Procurement team internally and externally;10. Create mechanisms to measure supplier performances like scorecards, metrics, supplier QBRs, etc.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's degree- 7+ years of creating, defining, and implementing procurement strategy experiencePREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Master's degree- 10+ years of experience with a focus on supply chain, strategic sourcing, operational planning, or supplier management.- Experience and knowledge of soft services, facility and security workforce management, pest control, drinking water, and tea/coffee category suppliers, and the related procurement.- Ability to proactively manage supplier relationships to drive value for our customers.- Ability to exercise judgment in the evaluation of suppliers, supplier performance, and ensure that project goals, schedules, and performance requirements are achieved.- Exceptional skill in negotiation, contract development, and program management.- Strategic, long-term critical thinking and planning.- Financial analysis and value/TCO analysis.- Bias for action and urgency.- Customer obsession and clear concise communication skills.- Must have a positive, collaborative attitude.- Likes to challenge convention and strive for innovation.- Excellent verbal skills and above-average written communication skills.- Strong PC skills including Windows and Excel.
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