Procurement Specialist, Cost Engineering, Global Procurement Operations (GPO), GPO Cost Engineering

At Amazon, we're working to be the most customer-centric company on earth. Amazon regularly builds and extends its’ Fulfilment Centers, Sortation Centers and Delivery Stations and strategically source products and services to serve its customers. We seek an innovative, analytical candidate well-versed in the global supply chain landscape. This role involves collaborating with multiple teams to develop highly accurate cost models for negotiation, aimed at optimizing expenditure and maximizing efficiency across our operations. Your experience in working with diverse global teams and effectively communicating with stakeholders is essential. We're in search of exceptionally talented, bright, and driven individuals to lead innovation in Procurement Cost Engineering. Join us and be part of making history.
We are seeking an experienced, versatile and customer obsessed Procurement Specialist in our cost engineering team who will be responsible for driving cost engineering initiatives in one or several procurement categories (for example Packaging, Robotics, material handling equipment or CAPEX, Freight). The ideal candidate has experience in procurement/cost engineering with an expertise in one or several of the mentioned procurement categories. Alternatively, the candidate is a mechanical engineer with industrial expertise and a deep understanding of cost drivers and ideally experience in supplier negotiations.
Ability to steer extended cross-discipline virtual teams as well as project management and executive presentation skills are essential. This opportunity requires excellent technical, problem-solving, and communication skills. Ideal candidates thrive in a rapidly advancing, changing, delivery-focused environments.
Key job responsibilities
• Develop overall procurement cost-engineering roadmap and establish should-costing for one or several procurement categories
• Utilize costing methodologies and appropriate software tools to prepare reliable bottom-up cost models and should-cost targets during design, specification and development process in close collaboration with category managers, engineering and construction
• Support preparation and evaluation of call for tenders and supplier quotations, prepare negotiation dossiers from cost engineering viewpoint in close collaboration with category managers
• Ensure supplier quotations meet ‘should cost’ estimates, support negotiations by challenging quotations using technical analysis aiming for cost reductions
• Advise on the cost impact of changes in specification
• Collaborate with suppliers and internal customers to investigate and identify product innovations and design-to-cost initiatives with the ultimate target to achieve cost improvement
• Communicate with and support management decisions by providing appropriate cost information
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Bengaluru, KA, IND | Hyderabad, AP, IND
- 2+ years of program or project management experience
- 1+ years of supply chain experience
- Knowledge of Lean principles and DMAIC methodology
- Experience in MS Access and SQL
- Experience in requirement gathering and ability to write clear and detailed requirement document