Supply Chain Specialist - Procurement and Vendor Management

Amazon India Limited; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon India Limited is seeking a Supply Chain Specialist to own procurement tasks for new site launches in the India region. You will track procurement Deliverables, coordinate with vendors, and ensure on-time delivery of equipment and services.

The role emphasizes risk identification and proactive mitigation within the procurement process. You will collaborate with Category Managers and Start Up teams to standardize processes, manage supplier relationships, and drive improvements across

Qualifications

• 3+ years of procurement, purchasing or supply chain experience.
• Experience in vendor management.
• Excellent verbal and written communication for vendor engagement.
• Ability to manage multiple vendor relationships and complex procurement projects.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrate ownership, management and coordination of procurement tasks and dependencies to ensure goods and services for new site launches are planned, ordered and delivered on time.
• Track and report project progress and performance, proactively identify risks, issues and manage mitigation plans when necessary.
• Track Purchase Order status and work with suppliers to ensure on-time delivery of all equipment.
• Partner with Category Managers to standardize order and escalation processes, driving effective two-way communication and mitigating risks for EU launches.
• Provide guidance, coaching and technical support to internal customers to embed use of best practice processes.
• Build and maintain effective stakeholder relationships with internal customers in Start Up and Launch teams, ensuring regular communication channels.
• Lead setup of standard procurement procedures for new sites and identify ways to streamline processes to remove waste across groups and categories.
• Manage Supplier Relationship, including inventory management, risks and long term supply chain strategies.

Skills

Vendor management

Procurement experience

Communication skills

Project coordination

Stakeholder management

Job description

Supply Chain Specialist, Global Procurement Launch and Expansion

You’ll be responsible to have ownership for management and coordination of procurement tasks and dependencies to support the on-time delivery of goods and services for new sites in a given region as part of the India launch program. As Procurement Specialist, you are responsible for monitoring and tracking project progress and performance, proactively identifying risks and managing mitigation plans. You will have excellent communication skills to build and maintain effective stakeholder relationships and have the ability to focus simultaneously on short term deliverables and continuous improvement initiatives to deliver long term value to internal customers.

Key job responsibilities

• Demonstrate ownership, management and coordination of procurement tasks and dependencies to ensure goods and services critical to the launch of new sites are planned for, ordered and delivered on time
• Track and report project progress and performance, proactively identify risks, issues and manage mitigation plans when necessary
• Track Purchase Order status and work with suppliers to ensure on-time delivery of all equipment
• Partner with Category Managers with the objective of standardizing category order and escalation processes, driving effective two-way communication and mitigating risks related to all EU launches
• Provide guidance, coaching and technical support to internal customers to embed use of best practice processes
• Build and maintain effective stakeholder relationships with internal customers in the Start Up and Launch teams, ensuring regular communication channels are in place
• Lead set up of all standard procurement procedures for new sites and identify ways to streamline existing processes to remove waste across multiple businesses groups and categories
• Manage Supplier Relationship, including inventory management, risks and long term supply chain strategies

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of procurement, purchasing, supply chain related work in a procurement organization experience
• Experience in vendor management
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills for effective vendor engagement
• Proven ability to manage multiple vendor relationships and complex procurement projects

Preferred Qualifications

• 4+ years of work in a procurement organization, performing vendor management, contract management, negotiating complex purchases, and bidding experience

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Experience Level Mid Level