Procurement/Buyer, Project Kuiper

Project Kuiper Job Opportunity

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.

Key Job Responsibilities

The role has the primary responsibility of ensuring material availability to support production and engineering schedules. Other responsibilities for the Buyer/Planner include managing inventory levels, supporting material/product level revisions, interacting/coordinating with suppliers on a variety of topics ensuring compliance and supporting other business functions as required.

Monitor status of open orders to ensure on-time delivery of all items ordered, including timely resolution, communication.

Expedite or defer orders as required based on schedule and/or inventory changes.

Manage and resolve issues regarding Purchase Order (PO) to invoice discrepancies, returns and quality problems with suppliers.

Provide back-up support for supply chain functions including shipping, receiving, material handling and other duties as assigned.

Collaborate with internal customers and provide a high level of customer service, including recommending solutions, resources and alternative supply options.

Ensure and promote compliance to Company and Procurement policies and procedures.

Understand and comply with all FAR, DFAR, ITAR flow down requirements.

Understand and comply with all import/export requirements.

Use procurement systems like Coupa, SAP & E2Open for order management and delivery metrics.

Participate in Daily Deep Dive (DDD) meetings to report on procurement-related metrics.