Jobs at Amazon in Mexico

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At Amazon we believe that Every Day is still Day One! 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. We are looking to hire a talented and committed Technical Vendor Manager for our growing Engineering team to play a critical role in managing Amazon's fast growth and technology innovation needs. A day to take a first step. A day to look forwards to new challenges. And today is that day for you. It's your day to be part of something great. A day to make your ideas come to life. And your day to join a company that redefines itself every day. That's the energy and passion behind Amazon.

Amazon is seeking an experienced and business oriented Technical Vendor Manager to lead the E2E vendor development and engagement which includes capacity planning and delivery of key Material Handling Equipment (MHE) supply chains, for the continued expansion of our LATAM fulfillment network. Successful candidates will have strong level of ownership and be highly motivated individuals who have wide Engineering Program and Project Management experience.

The role will understand the details of an Amazon Fulfillment Center and will deep dive on key MHE project delivery and performance by working in close collaboration with equipment suppliers, Global Procurement and several Engineering teams. This individual will be responsible for managing overall vendor development program focusing on critical path to ensure on time delivery with the objective to accelerate our end-to-end project timing.

The Technical Vendor Manager will have high work capacity, bias for action, dealing with a level of ambiguity, proven experience in Program and Stakeholder Management and a passion to build capability and relationships, both external, at suppliers, and internally with robust work processes. This individual needs to be comfortable interfacing and driving various functional teams and individuals at all levels of the organization in order to be successful. Work with external vendors and internal teams to deliver CAPEX projects safely, on time and on cost.

Would you like an opportunity to travel and work across multiple countries and cultures? This role will be based in Mexico with up to 50% on job travel, either domestically within LATAM or to other EMEA and APAC locations.

• Lead overall end-to-end technical vendor management to deliver large scale projects.
• Evaluate and simplify current working procedures and improve organization team structure.
• Lead technical program reviews and drive schedule acceleration, cost savings, and standardization.
• Deep dive on technical details and lead problem resolution on a need basis.
• Communicate project status, drive and elevate decision making and help requests.
• Lead critical path schedule items and escalate to leadership on potential risks and delays.
• Be a business partner with the Procurement and Engineering team, drive execution of commercial and technical deliverables.
• Work very closely with Engineering / Project Delivery Teams and own delivery of equipment to site.
• Assist in providing equipment projections to procurement and partner for best value and competition.
• Coordinate information between various teams in the organization.
• Own and develop opportunities for process optimization to drive impact in the internal team/organization and external/vendor organizations.
• Ability to understand Operational processes.
• Ability to travel up to 50% across projects in LATAM and Emerging Countries.

• Bachelor's degree.
• 4+ years of industrial engineer, operations engineer, manufacturing engineer, or project engineer in a manufacturing environment experience.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office products and applications (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Visio, and MS Project) at an advanced level.
• Fluent in Spanish and English (B2+).

• Knowledge of AutoCAD, VBA, and SQL at the intermediate level.
• Experience working with and managing third party vendors.
• Experience with Six Sigma, lean manufacturing.
• French, Polish, Arabic, Portuguese, Turkish, Afrikaans and Zulu are considered desirable.

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Company - Servicios Comerciales Amazon Mexico S. de R.L. de C.V.

Job ID: A2933633