Senior Buyer

Amazon is hiring a Procurement Program Manager to be based in Hyderabad, India.

As a member of the APAC Global Procurement Central Services (GPCS), you will be leading a team of procurement professionals, supporting procurement and business teams across Asia Pacific, Europe, Middle East, Africa and the United States in a diverse set of operations (for example catalogs, vendor onboarding, procurement requisitions compliance checks, consumables inventory planning, ordering, among others).

Key job responsibilities

• Lead process improvement initiatives / projects at regional and/or multi-regional scale
• Act as Manager proxy as required
• Act as subject matter expert on related operational process: vendor onboarding, catalogs management, PR compliance checks, inventory planning, invoice on-hold resolution, purchasing operations
• Perform weekly and monthly business reviews
• Ensure adherence to Amazons global spend policy and driving compliance to Procurement policies and procedures.
• Build effective stakeholder relationships - develop relationships with primary internal customers (local Operations leadership), external suppliers and other teams within respective market.
• Drive effective delivery of metrics by leading / supporting projects and initiatives; identifying root cause of issues and corrective actions.
• Assist with the development of new standards, procedures and solutions for the procurement operations.
• Partner with other procurement leaders and teams on local or regional projects and initiative.
• Contribute to achievement of Procurements annual targets.
• Provides training and mentorship to employees for career enhancement and direction.

Internal job description

Basic qualifications

• Bachelor's degree
• Experience in procurement
• Speak, write, and read fluently in English, and have the ability to take direction in English
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in business, operations, logistics, supply chain or engineering
• Experience managing procurement teams with direct experience in supplier/supply chain management
• Experience in creating process improvements with automation and analysis, or experience with process improvement, Kaizan, and Six Sigma

Preferred qualifications

• Speak, write, and read fluently in English and Italian
• Experience in Finance, Supply Chain Management, Business, IT or any other procurement related career
• Master's degree or above in business, engineering, operations, supply chain, transportation logistics
• 1+ years of using Microsoft Office, particularly Excel and analytical platforms, including but not limited to the ability to analyze data using pivots and V-Lookups experience
• Role & responsibilities

Preferred candidate profile