DESCRIPTION

Amazon’s India Operations’ Capex Procurement team is hiring for a Procurement Manager for Capex Categories with Pan-India responsibilities. The Procurement Manager, will manage multiple categories/ subcategories and projects of increased complexity, Operate with significant autonomy and discretion, Influence other internal teams and manage direct reports.
Category include HVAC, Electrical, MEP, Shelving & Civil works, Equipment, warehouse consumables, Material handling equipment, Automation etc etc.
In this role the person will define and own the vendor performance, procurement strategies, bid management, contract management and innovation roadmap for the category. The person will work closely with design engineering team and vendors to evaluate technologies to adopt cost efficient yet high quality solutions. The person will lead in creating the industry benchmark procurement processes and work side-by-side with internal and external stakeholders to deliver the best for the end customer experience.

Key job responsibilities
1. Manages the spend of the allocated category through sourcing of vendors, negotiating commercial and terms of procurement, executing the agreement and contracts and ensuring compliance. Own and drives all decisions made for the allocated category. Operates with significant autonomy and discretion.
3. Develop, define and implement sourcing strategy by collaborating with with cross-functional team. Uses the strategies to negotiate vendor commercials and contracts and processes. Defines the game plan for driving lower Total cost of ownership. Communicates initiatives to gain customer and supplier buy-in and to drive them towards anticipated outcomes;
3. Uses knowledge of the market segment for assigned categories to identify trends and mitigate potential market-related issues;
4. Owns the supplier performance and supplier life cycle. Determines which suppliers should be positioned for long-term contracts based on the suppliers’ overall value to the business. Represents Amazon professionally in front of vendors and external stakeholders.
5. Establishes and implements standards for partnering with these suppliers. Influences & insists the vendors to adopt highest standard in compliance, audits and new global supplier capability enhancement programs.
6. Establishes supplier diversity/sourcing targets and expands current supplier selection options accordingly. Regularly evaluates these targets to raise the bar in terms of deliverables;
7. Articulates and publishes KPI metric dashboards, program updates, success stories at regular frequently. Promotes procurement internally and externally.

A day in the life
Same as Above

About the team
Not applicable

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

– Bachelor’s degree

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

– Master’s degree