About this role
Description
At Amazon, your career doesn’t follow a straight line. It accelerates, twists, and challenges you in ways you never expected. From the moment you join, you’re part of something big: building products or services that reach millions and shaping how people live, work, and connect every day. This is where your ideas turn into real impact.
You’ll work with world class tools, global platforms, and systems built to operate at an extraordinary scale. You’ll move fast, experiment and launch solutions that matter. With endless opportunities to explore across teams and roles, you’ll learn quickly, apply what you know and discover skills you didn’t know existed. This is an environment designed for builders who want to see the impact of their work in the world. Ready to start your adventure?
What’s in it for you?
An internship at Amazon means real responsibility from day one. You’ll build, test, and learn alongside people who want to see you succeed, while making an impact that reaches far beyond campus.
Key job responsibilities
• Ensuring that the FC always has the required goods/services on hand at the best available prices and terms
• Pulling source information and updating forecast models to determine weekly/monthly order quantities
• Managing materials inventory, ensuring proper stock levels with minimal operating capital
• Minimizing on-site stock holdings for all materials
• Engaging and facilitating procurement for multiple functions within Amazon: FC Operations, Facilities, Engineering, HR, Safety, Security, Transportation, and IT
• Implementing change and/or developing new processes as required to provide ability to better procure goods and services for the FC
A day in the life
This internship is an educational opportunity where you will apply your analytical and technical skills to complete an impactful project that will contribute to the functionality and level of service our team provides to our customers. Your day might start with analyzing data using your proficiency in Microsoft Excel, leveraging pivot tables and formulas to extract meaningful insights. As you progress through the day, you’ll gain hands-on experience in material resource planning, inventory management, and forecasting, while collaborating with the accounts payable team to understand their processes. Your ability to innovate and simplify current practices will be put to the test as you work toward driving results. Throughout your internship, you’ll also build on your basic understanding of accounting principles. This role offers the chance to develop your skills in a real-world setting, setting a solid foundation for your future career.
About the team
If you have an interest in tendering and negotiating with suppliers, reporting, forecasting and building KPI dashboards that will support the business in optimizing their consumable orders and consumption, like creating easy to follow processes and training your business partners, Amazon Global Procurement Operations team is the place to be.
Basic Qualifications
- • Currently in your penultimate or final year and working towards a university degree in Business Management, Procurement, Logistics, Supply Chain, Accounting or similar discipline.
- • Eligible to complete a full-time internship of 6 months.
- • Highly proficient in both spoken and written English (Common European Framework of Reference C1)
Preferred Qualifications
- • Strong problem-solving and analytical skills, with the ability to identify process improvements and innovative solutions.
- • Excellent communication and teamwork skills, able to collaborate effectively with others.
- • Demonstrated curiosity, proactivity, and willingness to take on challenges in an ambiguous, fast-paced environment.
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