Sr Buyer, GPCS (Global Procurement Central Services)

The GPCS Team, reporting into the Global Procurement Organisation (GPO), ensures that Amazon gets value for money for non-inventory goods to provide the Fulfilment Centres with the necessary shipping supplies they need to operate smoothly. As a GPCS Buyer, you will provide functional support to all the Fulfilment Centres (FCs) within a cluster of FCs for all aspects of procurement.
This includes securing the constant flow of packaging goods and services, supplied at the best overall value to the business on a day to day basis. Responsibilities could also include the compliance check of purchase requisitions, creation of procurement catalogs and onboarding of new vendors.
The number of FCs within a cluster will ideally depend on FC size and other relevant parameters. The GPCS Sr Buyer will directly report to the Sr Procurement Manager for GPCS EMEA.


Key job responsibilities
The extent of your responsibilities will include but is not limited to:
• Lead process improvement initiatives / projects at regional and/or multi-regional scale
• Perform weekly and monthly business reviews
• Support the change management of new shipping supplies materials introduction
• Plan and execute the daily forecast and effective materials management of all non-inventory packaging supplies
• Execute purchase order creation
• Liaise with suppliers to secure prompt deliveries
• Develop relationships with primary internal customers (on-site management teams), external suppliers and other Amazon Teams (Operations and Corporate)
• Work in full compliance with the company Spending and Transaction Policy
• Plan truck deliveries in full
• Communicate the accurate delivery schedule to the local FC materials receiving teams
• Be the escalation POC to ensure deliveries are offloaded as per the agreed timelines with suppliers
• Work with Operations and on site procurement teams to define strategies to mitigate space constraints
• Manage and drive down the number of Invoices on Hold (IOH) requests
• Provide support to other Sr Buyers / Buyers in other regions as and when required
• Provide training to new buyers
• Deliver Procurement metrics in line with set targets. This includes achieving KPI metrics, cost savings for the cluster, no FC stock-out issues and achieving individual project objectives.
• Perform compliance checks on purchase requisitions
• Create, modify or deprecate procurement catalogs
• Perform Vendor Onboarding tasks


• Travel Requirements: Occasional Travel may be required to visit individual FCs within the cluster/other regions (5% of the total time)

Basic Qualifications

- Knowledge of advanced English at CEFR level B2/C1
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Operations, Supply Chain Management, Engineering, or a related field
- Experience leading process improvements
- Experience leading Procurement and/or Supply Chain projects

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience in the procurement of shipping supplies, direct materials and/or inventory planning
- Experience leading Procurement and/or Supply Chain projects at regional/global scale
- Experience leading process improvement projects involving smart technologies (a.i., machine learning, robotic process automation -RPA-, or related)

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