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Amazon

Sells products online and rents cloud computing

Procurement Specialist 2

Inventory Management +1Confirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timePooler, GA, USA$61.8k - $108.2kIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • A bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent degree in Supply Chain Management or a related field is required.
  • Two years of experience in the job offered or a related occupation is required.
  • Two years of experience in supply chain operations is required.
  • Two years of experience using Excel or Tableau for data manipulation, macros, charts, and pivot tables is required.
  • Two years of experience in employee and performance management is required.
  • Two years of experience with supplier or vendor relationship management is required.

Responsibilities

  • Provide procurement operations support for the fulfillment center, including supplier management for goods and services, noninventory labor, flow, aid space models, cycle counts, inventory management, procurement transactions, and expediting support.
  • Work with a team of non-inventory associates to ensure the building has adequate resources and is set up for success.
  • Develop deep knowledge of non-inventory items and align with buildings to achieve best practices.
  • Drive safety compliance for non-inventory staff during day-to-day activities and partner with regional and local safety teams on safety issues and site-level escalations.
  • Manage key performance metrics to measure, control, and benchmark procurement processes, including creating recurring metrics reports to drive improvements for the Operations network.
  • Develop relationships across the building and network to ensure best practices are shared and implemented.
  • Align with internal customers, Finance, and Procurement Operations to understand building budget targets and develop methods to measure and define savings, value, and other category metrics.
  • Assist Finance and internal customers in determining budgets and maintaining blanket purchase order management.
  • Use input from the category team to build a category metrics model that tracks and monitors performance against category strategy, including supplier scorecards and other site audits on third-party services.
  • Measure actual savings against planned savings, identify savings trends, own action plans to meet goals, and develop solutions.
  • Partner internally and with suppliers to develop innovative solutions that support Procurement for the Operations network.
  • Develop and implement ways to measure suppliers and drive continuous performance improvement for Amazon.
  • Coordinate demand identification, procurement, and inventory management for all nonmerchandise items required for building operations, including corrugation, packing materials, labor, and janitorial services.
  • Partner with Accounts Payable, suppliers, and internal teams to ensure timely resolution of vendor payment issues.
  • Support the centralized Procurement team and Global Procurement Organization pillars, including ProcOps, Category, Supplier Diversity, Supplier Management, Procurement Excellence, Reusables, Technology, and PMO.

About the Company

Amazon

Sells products online and rents cloud computing

Amazon runs the largest online store in the United States and rents cloud computing to businesses and governments through Amazon Web Services. AWS pioneered renting computing power over the internet, and Amazon built its own delivery network to get orders to customers quickly. Shoppers buy from Amazon and from independent sellers on its store, and Prime members pay a subscription for fast free shipping, streaming video and music, and other perks. AWS rents out computing power, storage, databases, and AI tools so companies can run software without owning servers, and Amazon also makes Kindle e-readers and Echo speakers with the Alexa assistant. Jeff Bezos founded Amazon in 1994, and it is based in Seattle, Washington.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Seattle, WA
Founded
1994

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