Job Description

DESCRIPTION

Project Kuiper is Amazon’s low Earth orbit satellite broadband network. Its mission is to deliver fast, reliable internet to customers and communities around the world, and we’ve designed the system with the capacity, flexibility, and performance to serve a wide range of customers, from individual households to schools, hospitals, businesses, government agencies, and other organizations operating in locations without reliable connectivity.

Export Control Requirement: Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.

Our team is looking for a Buyer to support Kuiper Direct and Indirect Procurement. The role is responsible for the placement, management and delivery of purchase orders to ensure material availability for production and engineering schedules. Other responsibilities for the Buyer include working with suppliers to ensure we are manufacturing the latest material/product level revisions, interacting/coordinating with suppliers on a variety of topics ensuring compliance and supporting other business functions as required. The successful candidate will have bias for action and will be driven to meet all service level goals related to technical, quality, and delivery requirements. This role will work with multiple business functions in a team environment.

Key job responsibilities
- Ensure and promote compliance to Company and Procurement policies and procedures.
- Collaborate across category teams, placing purchase orders (PO) and onboarding new suppliers.
- Ensuring POs are updated on time to support schedule and/or inventory changes
- Manage and resolve issues regarding PO to invoice discrepancies, returns and quality problems with suppliers.
- Create and update processes to improve supplier performance and PO health
- Provide back-up support for supply chain functions
- Collaborate with internal customers and provide a high level of customer service, including recommending solutions, resources and alternative supply options.
- Understand and comply with all FAR, DFAR, ITAR flow down requirements.
- Understand and comply with all import/export requirements.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 2+ Year of experience in a supply chain organization
- 2+ working with MRP tools
- 1+ Year of experience in procurement
- 1+ using data and metrics to determine and drive improvement

Job Tags

Permanent employment, Full time,

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