Qualifications
- 4+ years of supply chain operations experience
- Bachelor’s degree
- Procurement and vendor management experience (directs and indirects)
About Our Procurement Team
Our Procurement team is a new organization, strongly customer‑centric, focused on creating a transformational environment that meets our leadership principles by working hard, having fun, and making history.
Amazon Mexico
Key Job Responsibilities
- Own the site’s procurement operation responsibilities, including procurement for directs and indirects (products and services), vendor management, forecasting needs, inventory management, purchase order management, site day‑to‑day activities, projects, and monitoring vendor performance.
- Lead supplier management KPIs and metrics reporting, and work with stakeholders to identify and address deviations and improvement areas.
- Provide procurement leadership for the location and align with building leadership to drive efficiencies and improvements.
- Align with the Regional Procurement Manager to provide procurement operations for the building, including forecasting of non‑inventory services, supplier management, sourcing and negotiation, procurement transaction, projects of innovation, and expediting support as needed.
- Develop deep knowledge of services and categories.
- Report to the local site leader key milestones weekly and monthly on services performance and required actions (service, experience, improvements, new projects).
- Lead the operational procurement process.
- Manage related KPIs to measure, control and benchmark site procurement processes, including creation of recurring metrics reports.
- Build relationships across the building and network of Procurement and other sites.
- Align with internal customers, Finance and Procurement Operations to understand budgetary targets for the building, and 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 in line with the local category strategy.
- Measure actual vs planned savings and advise the team on trends, escalating issues and owning action plans.
- Maintain supplier scorecards.
- Support the Procurement Operations Excellence and Category Management teams.
A Day in the Life
- Daily monitoring of the performance of all sites.
- Identify improvement opportunities related to services.
- Attend critical escalations and lead action plan or task force as needed.
- Network with key stakeholders, functions and suppliers to collaborate on value‑added improvements for the operation.
- Identify weaknesses and vulnerabilities in internal operative processes and flag potential risks.
- Maintain managed team coverage 24/7 for shifts and service to avoid disruption.
- Business continuity process to maintain operation in case of contingencies.
- Project management.
About the Team
Experience in procurement.