Role: Buyer GPCS (Global Procurement Central Services)

Business area: Procurement Operations 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 current vendors.

The number of FCs within a cluster will ideally depend on FC size and other relevant parameters. The GPCS Buyer will directly report to the Procurement Manager for GPCS APAC.

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

Key job responsibilities The extent of your responsibilities will include but is not limited to:
- 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
- Plan time slots for deliveries upfront with the suppliers




- 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 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 Basic Qualifications: - Knowledge of advanced English at CEFR level B2/C1

- Experience with MS Office, in particular MS Excel Preferred Qualifications: - Experience in procurement and purchasing, including supplier relationship management

- Speak, write, and read fluently in Italian
- Speak, write, and read fluently in Japanese
- Speak, write, and read fluently in German
- Speak, write, and read fluently in Arabic

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📌 Buyer, Global Procurement Central Services (GPCS) (Hyderabad)
🏢 Amazon
📍 Hyderabad