Site Procurement Manager, Site Procurement Operations Espinho

Site Procurement Manager, Site Procurement Operations
Espinho
Espinho, Aveiro District, Portugal

Site Procurement Manager, Site Procurement Operations

Do you want to join a fast paced Global Procurement Organization team focused on Amazon Operations? By joining the Site Procurement Operations Team, you have the opportunity to lead and deliver strategic Procurement projects for our internal Business Partners, at local, regional, national, and European level. As a Site Procurement Manager, you will work in a team environment with Internal Amazon stakeholders, diverse Procurement peers, and external vendors, to procure
- adding solutions to the Business. You will be joining a
- functional team within one of our logistics sites, acting as a strategic Business Partner. You will drive continuous improvement, innovation, prevent legal and supply risk, and sustainability through your Procurement missions.

Key job responsibilities:

1. Understand the business needs and ensure the requirements are justified, analyzing and making recommendations to the business. Manage complex projects with high spends, risks, confidentiality, and time constraints, in ambiguous environment, across multiple sites.
2. Build effective stakeholder relationships, ensuring a high service level in terms of analyzing the scope of work, negotiating with vendors on cost, lead times and other key elements for local, regional,
   - wide, and Europe-wide projects.
3. Utilize various applications and systems to provide accurate metrics, reporting, and data (Coupa, Quicksight etc), including supplier performance metrics. Use and enhance the available tools to analyze opportunities and risks on spends, categories, vendors, and legal aspects.
4. Lead the Site Procurement Operations Process, from needs detection and definition, to contracting and implementation
   - up, going through 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. Create and execute contractual agreements such as Work Orders and Master Supply Agreements, driving contract compliance from vendors. Deliver contracts from A to Z mastering CLM (Contract Life Management).
6. Execute and support national and EU-wide procurement projects and initiatives (tenders, cost optimization, sustainability, process improvements etc. ), proactively collaborating with other Global Procurement Teams such as Category and partnering with Finance.
7. 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. 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. Work with internal stakeholders to understand the needs of the business and embed Amazon’s sustainability goals and processes by reducing waste,
   - using materials and ensuring CSR compliance.
10. Meet targeted Key Performance Indicators to deliver value for the business such as savings, financial metrics, sustainability and maintaining compliance against these categories.
11. 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. Act as Country SME for a large category and/or have the ability to extend SME responsibilities to EU scope level.
13. Provide training to the 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 with 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
    - solving skills.
12. Highly
    - motivated and
    - centric.
13. Supplier Relationship Management.
14. Able to demonstrate
    - 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.

Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build.

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