Our Procurement team is a new organization being strongly customer centric-focused by living a transformational environment needed to meet our leadership principles by working hard, having fun and making history.
We are seeking a leader with procurement experience to strategically source products and services for MX Customer Fulfillment Procurement.
As a Procurement Manager for Operations, you will own the procurement operation responsibilities, including category procurement for the site for Directs and indirects (Products and Services), vendor management, , contract management, forecast analysis, Procure to Pay, Category functions for network and sites day to day activities, projects and monitoring vendor performance.
You will also lead supplier management KPIs and metrics reporting, as well as develop and work with stakeholders to find and understand deviation and improvement areas. You will provide procurement leadership for the locations and alignment with building leadership team to drive efficiencies and improvements in the building.
The ideal candidate is a self-starter, and a creative, critical thinker with a motivation to learn. You must be an effective communicator and be able to work independently and as a leader of peers to generate high-quality work product in a collaborative, creative, ever-changing, and sometimes ambiguous environment. You must have a professional demeanor and be able to partner with people at every level.
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Key job responsibilities
- Align with the Regional Procurement Manager to provide procurement operations for the building, including: non-inventory services, supplier management, sourcing and negotiation, procurement transaction, projects of innovation and expediting support as needed.
- Establish category sourcing strategies, lead cross-functional strategic sourcing teams, negotiate with suppliers and execute contracts to optimize Amazon’s competitive position
- Drive appropriate relationships with category suppliers, with a principal objective of achieving the optimal solution and cost of ownership that meets the business’ goals supported by a culture of continuous improvement with performance benchmarks in use
- Reporting to the Country Procurement and Key Stakeholders key milestones on a Weekly & Monthly basis about services performance and actions needed (service, experience, improvements, new projects).
- Lead the operational procurement process.
- Manage related KPI to measure, control and benchmark procurement processes including creation of recurring metrics reports.
- Develop relationship across the building and network of Procurement and other sites.
- Align with Internal customers, Finance and Procurement Operations to understand budgetary targets by building to develop an agreed method of measuring and defining savings, value and other category metrics.
- Project Management.
- Build the category metrics model based on input from the category team to track and monitor performance to the local category strategy.
- To measure actual vs planned savings and advice team of trends, escalate issues and own action plans.
- Manage MBRs and QBRs.
A day in the life
1) Monitoring on the vendor's performance of all sites.
2) Improvement opportunities related to services.
3) Attend critical escalations + Action plan or task force as needed.
4) Networking with key stakeholders, functions and suppliers to collaborate into the best value added improvements needed for the operation.
5) identify weak and vulnerabilities on our internal operative process and flag any potential risk.
6) Business Continuity process to maintain operation in case of contingencies.
7) Project Management
About the team
Our Procurement team is a new organization being strongly customer centric-focused by living a transformational environment needed to meet our leadership principles by working hard, having fun and making history.
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