DESCRIPTION
At Amazon, we're working to be the most customer-centric company on earth. To get there, we need exceptionally talented, bright, and driven people. If you'd like to help us build the place to find and buy anything online, this is your chance to make history.
The Startup Procurement team manages the flow of materials to new sites by monitoring and mitigating supply risk. Our Sr. Program Manager, Startup Procurement role will work with various functional partners to make sure that items are ordered and delivered to sites just in time. The role will also review existing processes and continuously improve them by scaling, automation, etc.
#AmazonMexico
Key job responsibilities
onitor and mitigate overall risk for all new launches buildings
Continuously improve current processes
Identify and/or eliminate project related barriers for team members and partners
Communicate building launch plans with Category, Procurement Operations teams, and cross-functional organizations
Establish initial procurement order streams to match supply with demand on a Just-in-Time (JIT) basis.
Collaborate with suppliers and establish monitoring processes, where applicable, to ensure timely deliveries and quality compliance
Ensure Procurement's resource requirements are met in all new site launches
Define key performance indicators – develop metrics and service level agreements for core programs and processes, and track delivery against program objectives
Interface with Procurement Operations to implement best practices and ensure consistency across buildings
Partner with internal customers to positively influence spending decisions
Drive execution of vision and goals for the team
Develop sustainable training as needed for new project/program launches
Manage multiple, competing projects and priorities simultaneously
Travel up to 50% domestically and internationally
Key job responsibilities
- Plan and scope monthly discovery audits, execute audits, prepare written findings, and facilitate business responses and action items.
- Delve deep into the details to generate meaningful findings and recommend root cause solutions.
- Lead regional workshops to reinforce standards.
- Create short impactful videos to document best practices.
- Lead and participate in ad hoc projects.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Mexico City, DIF, MEX
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 2+ years of working cross functionally with tech and non-tech teams experience
- 2+ years of defining and implementing process improvement initiatives using data and metrics experience
- Bachelor's degree
- Knowledge of Excel at an intermediate level (e.g., pivot tables & charts, multiple criteria lookups, nested logical/IF formulas, data cleansing, array formulas, etc.)
- Experience defining program requirements and using data and metrics to determine improvements
- Willingness to travel up to 50% (excluding less than one-hour commute from home).
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 3+ years of driving end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership experience
- 3+ years of driving process improvements experience
- Experience in stakeholder management, dealing with multiple stakeholders at varied levels of the organization
- Experience building processes, project management, and schedules
