Senior Procurement Manager, Risk

Bachelor's, Master's or MBA degree, ideally with a focus on risk management / procurement, compliance certification status a plus
- Proven track record in risk and compliance, knowledge of ERC program structure
- Experience in the end-to-end procurement process of large-scale organizations

Job summary
Amazon’s mission is to be the most customer-centric company on Earth. To get there, we need to develop leaders who represent, and can innovate on behalf of a diverse and demanding global customer base. We are seeking a highly skilled, versatile, and strong Senior Procurement Manager, Benchmarking to lean a complex set of projects and initiatives and drive progress on key strategies.

With your help, Amazon will continue to enable people to discover new worlds and implement innovation. This is your chance to make history.

We are seeking a talented, experienced, and customer obsessed Senior Procurement Manager who has the passion to tackle ambiguous and challenging problems by inventing new ways to solve them.

The Procurement Risk & Compliance team aims at preventing and mitigating risk for Amazon Global Procurement Operations (GPO). They provide GPO leadership and internal customers with timely, accurate and actionable insights on a) industry best practice on procurement risk and compliance b) policy and process adherence c) potential internal or external risks c) status of corrective action plans

This position involves regular communication with senior management on progress, risks and change control. Ability to steer extended cross-discipline virtual teams as well as project management and executive presentation skills are essential.

Key job responsibilities
- Build the compliance risk management process, identify, and manage risks in a manner that drives the business risk mitigation and ensures business continuity
- Develop and adapt quality standards related to risk and compliance program to meet evolving requirements; and promote consistently high standards and operational excellence
- Advise business on ERC policies, guidelines & operating procedures as a pragmatic and collaborative leader
- Drive consensus across the organization to create internal controls
- Partner with all levels of staff to identify the root cause of control failures
- Design / execute risk-based annual audit work programs with internal and external auditors to mitigate risks and support the resolution of internal control deficiencies or failures
- Deliver internal audit reports focusing on process improvements for the auditee and management and openly discuss the observation, associated risks, recommendation and corrective action plans
- Follow up on corrective action plans to ensure that the identified actions are implemented, and risks have been appropriately mitigated
- Provide advice in order to continuously improve GPO Policies and Processes
- Conduct communication and training support awareness, detection and prevention goals.
- Regular reporting and dialogue with senior management on progress, risks and change control
- Extremely customer-focused, taking the time to understand the needs of the business.
- Strong analytical skills including the ability to quickly synthesize, distil and draw conclusions on large amounts of data.
- Ability to manage multiple simultaneous projects requiring frequent communication, organization, time management, and problem-solving skills.
- Passionate self-starter with the highest integrity and ethics.
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple tasks and activities in a calm, resilient and professional manner, and able to manage ethical, legal and investigative matters with discretion and the utmost care of the individuals and organization involved
- Curiosity, hands on attitude, experimental mindset, bias towards action, agile, fast and flexible, independent self-starter
- Results oriented person with a strong delivery focus who can work independently and collaboratively with global teams
- Strong oral and written communication skills as well as ability to think clearly, analyse quantitatively, problem-solve, scope requirements and prioritize tasks
- Ability to comfortably and confidently present and influence all levels within the organisation