Sr. Supply Chain Executive

DESCRIPTION

Overview: At Amazon, we strive to be Earth’s most customer-centric company where people can find and discover anything they want to buy online. We hire the world’s brightest minds, offering them an environment in which they can relentlessly improve the experience for customers. Innovation and creativity are built into the DNA of the company and are encouraged at all levels of employment. Every day we solve complex technical and business problems with ingenuity and simplicity. We’re making history and the good news is we’ve only just begun.

OpsTech Solution supply chain team is accountable to manage all IT infrastructure and end user equipment deployed across Amazon Fulfillment facilities globally. The team is responsible to provide end to end solution for this equipment that includes lifecycle management, change control, capital/demand planning, material management, RMA & liquidation. Our initiatives deliver on the solutions that power the physical fulfillment of our customers’ orders. This includes management of new site launches across the globe that directly supports shipping packages to millions of Amazon.com customers across the world.

As a Supply Chain Executive, you will be responsible for creating POs, ensuring on time, in full deliveries of goods, managing inventory as well as maintaining vendor relationships. This role will support India. However, you will work cross functionally with team members globally in order to drive supply chain performance...

Key job responsibilities
  • Identifying solutions on own when issues are occurred.
  • Proactively working with suppliers for ETA's and delivery status.
  • To work with suppliers for weekly/monthly orders status report.
  • Prepare and process requisitions and purchase orders.
  • Ensure product quality standards are being met by each vendor.
  • Conduct audits with ordering, receiving, invoicing and accounts payable to ensure 100% accuracy.
  • Develop and maintain accurate overview of key department areas such as stock, inventory levels, warehouse capacity, and vendor performance.
  • Ensure adequate inventory levels to support internal customer orders.
  • Develop strategies to improve current supply chain purchasing/inventory management/delivery processes.
  • Perform root-cause analysis in any areas of significant failures (e.g stock-in %, high backlog, overstock inventory, vendor delays) in a timely manner.
  • Develop KPI’s (Scorecards) to drive improved vendor performance.
  • Work closely with Demand Planning to create purchasing plan and make recommendations on strategies and inventory decisions.
  • Monitor site inventory levels to ensure that proper stock is maintained to support build, lifecycle and repair activities.
  • Update or develop documentation on processes that are critical to success of your function
  • Timely circulating delivery/shipment tracker to internal customers

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

  • 2+ years of procurement, purchasing, supply chain related work in a procurement organization experience
  • 1+ years of supply chain experience

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

  • 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 in MS Access and SQL
  • Experience as procurement/purchasing analyst, or other operational role within a procurement organization

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