Senior Buyer

Amazon; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 3,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon is hiring a Procurement Program Manager based in Hyderabad, India. You will lead a team of procurement professionals and support procurement across APAC, EMEA, and the US, handling catalogs, vendor onboarding, compliance checks, inventory planning, and purchasing operations.

Responsibilities include driving regional initiatives, managing supplier relationships, conducting weekly/monthly reviews, and ensuring adherence to spend policies.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business, operations, logistics or engineering.
• Experience in procurement and managing procurement teams.
• Fluent in English; ability to take direction.
• Experience in supplier/supply chain management.
• Experience in process improvements with automation, Six Sigma or Kaizen.

Responsibilities

• Lead regional or multi-regional procurement initiatives.
• Act as manager proxy when required.
• Oversee vendor onboarding, catalogs management, PR compliance checks and inventory planning.
• Perform weekly and monthly business reviews.
• Ensure adherence to global spend policy and procurement procedures.
• Build effective stakeholder relationships with internal customers and suppliers.
• Drive delivery of metrics; identify root causes and corrective actions.
• Develop new standards and procedures for procurement operations.
• Mentor and train employees for career development.

Skills

Procurement

Leadership

Vendor onboarding

Process improvement

Kaizen

Six Sigma

English fluency

Education

Bachelor's degree

Business/Operations/Logistics/Engineering degree

Tools

Microsoft Office

Excel

Pivot tables

VLOOKUPs

Job description

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 careerMaster'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