Sr Procurement Supply Chain Manager, Global Procurement Organization (GPO)
Amazon Arlington
As a Senior Procurement Supply Chain Program Manager in the Global Procurement Launch & Expansion (GPLE) team, you’ll be responsible for providing leadership, management and coordination of global projects to innovate and drive standardization across Business Units & regions.
The role is seen as a strategic driver for excellence, through implementation of best practices, standardization of project execution and governance. You will be an experienced procurement or project/program management professional, responsible for monitoring and controlling project progress and performance, proactively identifying risks and managing mitigation plans.
The role is seen as a strategic driver for excellence, through implementation of best practices, standardization of project execution and governance. You will be an experienced procurement or project/program management professional, responsible for monitoring and controlling project progress and performance, proactively identifying risks and managing mitigation plans.
You will have excellent communication skills to build and maintain effective stakeholder relationships and have the ability to focus simultaneously on short term deliverables and continuous improvement initiatives to deliver long term value to internal customers.
Key job responsibilities- Lead continuous improvement initiatives and cross functional programs across NA, EMEA, APAC and LATAM regions to drive operational efficiency and cost savings.
- Manage multiple, competing projects and priorities simultaneously
- Conduct discovery of novel ideas and innovative solutions through deep dive and Voice of Customer (VOC) analysis to develop white papers/ business case.
- Manage new complex initiatives, deal with ambiguity and innovate on behalf of internal stakeholders.
- Provide leadership, management and coordination of procurement tasks and dependencies to ensure goods and services critical to the launch of sites are planned for, ordered and delivered on time.
- Build and maintain effective stakeholder relationships with internal customers in Global Engineering Services (Startup) and Global Procurement Organization, ensuring regular communication channels are in place.
- Develop reporting mechanisms for senior leadership to reflect project progress and performance, proactively identify risks, issues and manage mitigation plans.
- Provide fast and responsive support when faced with escalations from senior leadership, own and drive resolution of issues
- Provide guidance, coaching and technical support to launch procurement team to embed use of best practice processes & tools
- Identify and implement strategic initiatives and deliver procurement value to the business
About the team
Global Launch Planning (GLP) Pillar owns the development of processes and capabilities that enhance GPLE team’s ability to plan and efficiently execute globally. The pillar aims to integrate upstream supply chain activities such as demand planning & forecasting, develop strategic stakeholder partnerships and provide supply chain solutions by utilizing and embracing automation, digitization and innovation- 7+ years of program or project management experience
- 7+ years of supply chain experience
- Experience using data and metrics to determine and drive improvements
- Experience owning program strategy, end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership
- Bachelor's degree- 2+ years of driving process improvements experience
- Master's degree, or MBA in business, operations, human resources, adult education, organizational development, instructional design or related field
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