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As a Purchasing Assistant for the Amazon Fulfillment Center (FC) team, you will Support the site’s procurement operation responsibilities, including forecasting, inventory management, purchase order creation, management and monitoring. You will also participate in leading supplier management KPI and metrics reporting, as well as developing and working with stakeholders to find and understand deviation and improvement areas. You will provide procurement guidance for the location(s) and alignment with building leadership team to drive efficiencies and improvements in the site.

• Key job responsibilities
• Align with the Procurement Operations Manager to provide procurement operations for the building, including: forecasting of non-inventory products, inventory management, non-inventory flow and space models, cycle counts, supplier management, procurement transaction and expediting support,
• Manage non-inventory receiving
• Develop deep knowledge of building Non Inventory items and align with like buildings to drive best practices
• Manage related KPI to measure, control and benchmark procurement processes including creation of recurring metrics reports
• Support relationship development across the building and network
• Align with Internal customers, Finance and Procurement Operations to understand budgetary targets by building to develop an agreed method of measuring and defining savings, value and other category metrics
• Assist into building the category metrics model based on input from the category team to track and monitor performance to the category strategy
• To measure actual vs planned savings and advice team of trends, escalate issues and own action plans
• Manage and maintain supplier scorecards
• Support the procurement operations and category management teams

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree
• 1+ years of Microsoft Office products and applications experience
• 2+ years of procurement experience
• Knowledge of Excel at a basic level (e.g., UX navigation, math & logical functions, lookup functions, etc.)
• Knowledge of Excel at an intermediate level (e.g., pivot tables & charts, multiple criteria lookups, nested logical/IF formulas, data cleansing, array formulas, etc.)
• Excel Intermediate

Preferred Qualifications

• 1+ years of project coordination experience
• Speak, write, and read fluently in English, and have the ability to take direction in English
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