Sr. Supply Chain Program Mgr., Global Procurement Launch and Expansion

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.

The Global Procurement Launch and Expansion (GPLE) team manages the flow of materials to new or expanding sites by monitoring and mitigating supply risks.

This is our first GPLE role in South Africa. You will play a foundational role in shaping how we launch sites in the country, owning the end-to-end procurement lifecycle, from sourcing through to project management, ensuring we build a scalable, locally-adapted model from the ground up.

Our Senior Supply Chain Program Manager role will work with various functional partners to make sure that items and equipment are ordered and delivered to sites just in time. The role will also create and review processes and continuously improve them.

Key job responsibilities

• Be accountable for ensuring risks and escalations are mitigated to meet launch program timelines for new site launches and expansions in the network.
• Serve as the interface between vendors, procurement, and the business to track, monitor and control procurement project plans.
• Optimize the Supply Chain via deep dive and strategically identifying processes and tools to reduce manual effort, optimize costs and improve data visibility.
• Plan and execute continuous improvement initiatives and alignment in the region, through implementation of best practices, standardization of project execution and governance that deliver long-term value to internal customers.
• Collaborate with suppliers and establish monitoring processes, where applicable, to ensure timely deliveries and quality compliance.
• Manage multiple, competing projects and priorities simultaneously.

About the team

GPLE is a global function within GPO that enables the on-time launch of new sites, expansions, and retrofits, by ensuring non-inventory materials are planned for, ordered and delivered in full, and services are mobilized on-time, whilst managing a high level of ambiguity due to differing needs that span across multiple stakeholder organizations.

Basic qualifications

• - 5+ years of program or project management experience
• - 5+ 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

Preferred qualifications

• - 2+ years of driving process improvements experience
• - Bachelor's degree in supply chain management, operations, engineering, analytics or related field

Amazon is an equal opportunities employer, and we value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. We welcome applications from all members of society irrespective of age, sex, disability, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief. Amazon is strongly committed to diversity within its community and especially welcomes applications from South African citizens who are members of designated groups who may contribute to Employment Equity within the workplace and the further diversification of ideas. In this regard, the relevant laws and principles associated with Employment Equity will be considered when appointing potential candidates. We are required by law to verify your ability to work lawfully in South Africa. Amazon requires that you submit a copy of either your identity document or your passport and any applicable work permit if you are a foreign national, along with an updated curriculum vitae.

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