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 Amazon’s 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 Procurement’s annual targets.
• Provides training and mentorship to employees for career enhancement and direction.