Description

　　Amazon's India Operations' Capex Procurement team is hiring for a Senior Procurement Manager for MHEs (Conveyors & Automation) with Pan-India responsibilities. The Senior 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.

　　In this role the person will define and own the capabilities, strategies and innovation roadmap for the category and team. The person will work closely with design engineering team and explore vendors and technologies to support the conveyance and automation projects. The person will lead in creating the industry benchmarked procurement processes and work side-by-side with internal and external stakeholders to deliver the best for the end customer. experience.

　　Key job responsibilities

　　Evaluates key spend, performance, and compliance data to lead supplier or category decisions;

　　Uses knowledge of the market segment for assigned categories to identify trends and mitigate potential market-related issues;

　　Identify, develop and implement sourcing strategy, works with cross-functional teams to ensure that strategies are executed, and effectively communicates initiatives to gain customer and supplier buy-in and to drive them towards anticipated outcomes;

　　Builds mechanisms and leads initiatives to ensure that suppliers’ costs don’t extend beyond established goals. Constantly seeks ways to reduce spending and

　　demonstrates the ability to advise business owners on whether a given purchase is reasonable and justified;

　　Determines which suppliers should be positioned for long-term contracts based on the suppliers’ overall value to the business. Establishes and implements standards for partnering with these suppliers;

　　Establishes supplier diversity/sourcing targets and expands current supplier selection options accordingly. Regularly evaluates these targets to raise the bar in terms of deliverables;

　　Operates with significant autonomy and discretion.

　　Promote the Procurement team internally and externally.

　　We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

　　Bengaluru, KA, IND

　　Basic Qualifications

　　Bachelor's degreePreferred Qualifications

　　Master's degree