Buyer Procurement, INFC

The GPCS Team reporting into the Global Procurement Organisation (GPO) ensures that Amazon gets value for money for non-inventory goods to provide the Fulfilment Centres with the necessary shipping supplies they need to operate smoothly. As a GPCS Buyer you will provide functional support to all the Fulfilment Centres (FCs) within a cluster of FCs for all aspects of procurement. This includes securing the constant flow of packaging goods and services supplied at the best overall value to the business on a day to day basis. Responsibilities could also include the compliance check of purchase requisitions creation of procurement catalogs and onboarding of new vendors.

The number of FCs within a cluster will ideally depend on FC size and other relevant parameters. The GPCS Buyer will directly report to the Procurement Manager for GPCS APAC.

Travel Requirements: Occasional Travel may be required to visit individual FCs within the cluster/other regions (5% of the total time)

Key job responsibilities
The extent of your responsibilities will include but is not limited to:
Plan and execute the daily forecast and effective materials management of all non-inventory packaging supplies
Execute purchase order creation
Liaise with suppliers to secure prompt deliveries
Develop relationships with primary internal customers (on-site management teams) external suppliers and other Amazon Teams (Operations and Corporate)
Work in full compliance with the company Spending and Transaction Policy
Plan truck deliveries in full
Plan time slots for deliveries upfront with the suppliers
Communicate the accurate delivery schedule to the local FC materials receiving teams
Be the escalation POC to ensure deliveries are offloaded as per the agreed timelines with suppliers
Work with Operations and on site procurement teams to define strategies to mitigate space constraints
Manage and drive down the number of Invoices on Hold (IOH) requests
Provide support to other buyers in other regions as and when required
Provide training to new buyers
Deliver Procurement metrics in line with set targets. This includes achieving KPI metrics cost savings for the cluster no FC stock-out issues and achieving individual project objectives.
Perform compliance checks on purchase requisitions
Create modify or deprecate procurement catalogs
Perform Vendor Onboarding tasks

- 1 years of customer-facing environment warehousing logistics or manufacturing experience
- Bachelors degree
- Experience with Microsoft Office products and applications
- Experience with Excel

- Experience in procurement and purchasing including supplier relationship management

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