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Regional Procurement Support Manager, SEND Operations (GTFBA)

Posted On

Sept. 17, 2024

Location

Bangalore, Karnataka

Experience Level

Freshers/Experienced

Job Type

Project/Program/Product Management--Non-Tech

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Jan. 28, 2025

Job 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.
Eliminating borders for buyers and sellers, SEND Global Selling facilitates Amazon's expansion into a rapidly growing list of countries, creating new logistical benchmarks and "firsts" through disruptive innovation. The multicultural, multilingual team works with merchants, sellers, providers, governments and trade officials from the busiest to the most remote locations around the world, applying a global perspective with a local approach. Our mission is “Every supplier. Every location. Every customer on Earth”. A key enabler of our global strategy is developing a strong procurement organization. The primary objective of the procurement organization is to support the growth of export programs by building and managing global contracts, negotiating commercial agreements, and strategically managing vendors and their performance globally.

As a Regional Procurement Manager you will own the region’s SEND procurement operation responsibilities, including forecasting, inventory management, purchase order creation, management and monitoring.

You will also lead supplier management KPI´s and metrics reporting, as well as develop and work with stakeholders to find and understand deviation and improvement areas. You will provide procurement leadership for the locations and alignment with building leadership team to drive efficiencies and improvements in the building.

Key job responsibilities
• Align with the Procurement Operations Manager to provide procurement operations support for the region, including: RFQs, contract management, rate negotiations, supplier management, procurement transaction and expediting support.
• Develop deep knowledge of cross border logistics and assist with price index benchmarking to drive best practices.
• Manage related KPI to measure, control and benchmark procurement processes including creation of recurring metrics reports.
• Develop relationship across the partner teams, internal stakeholders and wider procurement network.
• Align with Internal customers, Finance and Procurement Operations to understand budgetary targets by region to develop an agreed method of measuring and defining savings, value and other category metrics.
• Build the carrier/ vendor metrics model based on input from the procurement lead to track and monitor performance for each carrier/ vendor
• To measure actual vs planned savings and advice team of trends, escalate issues and own action plans.
• Manage and maintain supplier scorecards.
• Support the Procurement Operations and Regional teams.

A day in the life
Vendor Relationship Management
Vendor RFQs and follow up calls
Internal meetings with Leadership and key internal stakeholders
Carrier Contract Management and Performance Reviews

About the team
SEND is a cross border partner carrier program (XB PCP), to simplify XB FBA shipping experience for global SPs (Selling Partners), by removing key friction points such as (1) carrier discovery, selection and account creation, (2) lack of simplified shipment booking Seller Experience, and (3) limited destination marketplace compliance know-how.
Our vision is to ‘help spin Amazon’s FBA flywheel faster by enabling easy access to Amazon integrated, competitively priced, cross-border logistics solutions for all selling partners located anywhere in the world.' To get there, we are focused on building an experience that is scalable fast, and at minimal cost. - 3+ years of business development, partnership management, or sourcing new business experience
- 3+ years of developing, negotiating and executing business agreements experience
- Bachelor's degree
- Experience with sales CRM tools such as Salesforce or similar software
- Experience in setting up and managing a sales pipeline

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