Procurement Program Manager, Global Procurement Central Services (GPCS)

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.

- Bachelors degree
- Experience in procurement
- Speak write and read fluently in English and have the ability to take direction in English
- Bachelors 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

- Speak write and read fluently in English and Italian
- Experience in Finance Supply Chain Management Business IT or any other procurement related career
- Masters 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

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