Site Procurement Manager, Site Procurement Operations
As a key member of our Global Procurement Organization, you will lead and deliver strategic Procurement projects for internal Business Partners across local, regional, national, and European levels.
Key Job Responsibilities:
1. Business Needs Analysis: Understand business requirements, ensure justification, and make recommendations to the business. Manage complex projects with high spends, risks, confidentiality, and time constraints in an ambiguous environment across multiple sites.
2. Stakeholder Relationships: Build effective relationships with Internal Amazon stakeholders, diverse Procurement peers, and external vendors to procure value-adding solutions to the Business. Ensure a high service level in terms of analyzing scope of work, negotiating with vendors on cost, lead times, and other key elements for local, regional, country-wide, and Europe-wide projects.
3. Data Analysis: Utilize various applications and systems to provide accurate metrics, reporting, and data (Coupa, Quicksight, etc.). Use and enhance available tools to analyze opportunities and risks on spends, categories, vendors, and legal aspects.
4. Sourcing and Contracting: Lead the Site Procurement Operations Process from needs detection and definition to contracting and implementation follow-up, including sourcing, suppliers due diligence, negotiation, risk assessment, etc., using Coupa (ERP) and other tools. Deliver complex RFI and RFQ across multiple sites, BUs, and possibly countries.
5. Contract Management: Create and execute contractual agreements such as Work Orders and Master Supply Agreements. Drive contract compliance from vendors. Deliver contracts from A to Z mastering CLM (Contract Life Management).
6. National and EU-Wide Projects: Execute and support national and EU-wide procurement projects and initiatives (tenders, cost optimization, sustainability, process improvements, etc.). Proactively collaborate with other Global Procurement Teams such as Category and partnering with Finance.
7. Supplier Performance Governance: Manage and ensure governance on Supplier Performance to ensure a high service level in terms of lead time, quality & maintenance, following up contracts. Lead and support MBR/QBR where required and as agreed with Supplier Management Pillar and Categories.
8. Category Expertise: Act as Subject Matter Expert (SME) for a local category to identify and seize savings opportunities, perform spend analysis, and support a strategy definition for the country network.
9. Sustainability and Compliance: Work with internal stakeholders to understand the needs of the Business and embed Amazon's sustainability goals and processes by reducing waste, re-using materials, and ensuring CSR compliance.
10. Key Performance Indicators: Meet targeted Key Performance Indicators to deliver value for the Business such as savings, financial metrics, sustainability, and maintaining compliance against these categories.
11. Ambassador Role: Be an ambassador by ensuring full compliance with the company Spending & Transaction policy, educating and driving the correct behaviors of Business stakeholders towards internal procurement policy handbook.
12. Country SME: Act as Country SME for a large category and/or have the ability to extend SME responsibilities to EU scope level.
13. Training and Development: Provide training to other Buyers on functional skills.
About the Team:
Operations sits at the heart of the Amazon customer experience. We look after everything from the moment a customer clicks buy to the moment their item is delivered – from desktop to doorstep. Across Europe, we have more than 50 fulfilment centres, hundreds of delivery stations, thousands of machines, and tens of thousands of employees, all working together in harmony to make sure the right item gets delivered to the right person, in the right place, at the right time.
Minimum Requirements:
1. Bachelor's Degree in Procurement or Supply Chain or significant Procurement experience.
2. Relevant experience in a Procurement environment.
3. Proficient computer literacy in MS Office suite.
4. Qualifications and/or experience in sourcing, contract management, or equivalent role.
5. Negotiation skills (internal and external).
6. Contract management skills.
7. Highly proficient in spoken and written English, and in local language.
8. Experience working in a large, global, highly matrixed organization.
9. If no Procurement-related degree (or on top of it), CIPS/EIPM accreditation or equivalent functional knowledge or accreditation.
10. Experience of ERP (SAP/Coupa).
11. Ability to manage multiple complex and simultaneous projects requiring frequent communication, organization, time management, analysis methodology, and problem-solving skills.
12. Highly self-motivated and customer-centric.
13. Supplier Relationship Management.
14. Able to demonstrate problem-solving and analytical competence, with the ability to identify complex issues, develop & deliver solutions.
15. Ability to effectively manage stakeholders across multiple business functions, sites, regions, and business units.
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