DESCRIPTION Are you a visionary personality looking for an opportunity to think big and deliver results? Can you work on developing a holistic long-term Transportation Network strategy that will optimally flow millions of items from thousands of vendors to tens of millions of customers? Do you enjoy breaking down and solving complex problems for the benefit of a quickly expanding customer base, focusing first on our Customer and working backwards? Do you want to be part of a newly formed and growing organization that is designing and launching new business models across the world? If so, Amazon Rapid and Rural Logistics is looking for you. The team is looking for a Supply Chain Manager to support how we will scale globally.
Candidates for the Supply Chain Manager role must be effective cross-functional leaders. They must be capable of diving deep into data while simultaneously thinking big, building long-term strategic designs that optimize for cost, coverage, speed, and, most importantly, Customer experience. The candidate must be able to communicate these designs and strategic visions, influencing leadership across retail, transportation operations, technology teams, and senior leadership.
Needed Skills and Abilities:
Influencer: Innovative leader with the ability to identify opportunities and influence organizations to gain support and overcome resistance with data and persuasion.
Leader: Significant experience leading teams to consistently deliver valuable projects.
Doer: Ability to successfully deliver end-to-end operations projects, working through the many obstacles along the way.
Communicator: Ability to communicate expectations and requirements equally well with business and technology teams, and capacity to write well-reasoned and data-driven proposals, performing your own data analysis as necessary.
Problem Solver: Ability to utilize exceptional problem-solving skills to work through difficult challenges.
Results driven: Ability to take stretch goals and wow the internal and external customers with exceptional outcomes
Utilize exceptional problem-solving skills to work through difficult challenges
Adjust network design/topology to account for constraints in the building designs and the real estate market
Introduce strategies to improve routing inputs to improve plan vs actual error
Strategies for smoothing out uneven demand curves to ensure maximum route utilization
Key job responsibilities
• Lead strategic initiatives related to network capacity within Amazon's various business units.
• Concentrate on optimizing and managing the flow of goods, information, or services within the supply chain network.
• Balance supply and demand, assess and improve the efficiency of distribution networks, warehouses, or logistics operations.
• Analyze and synthesize data to identify opportunities for enhancing customer experiences and operational efficiency in network capacity.
• Define metrics, develop program management mechanisms, and invent/simplify processes to drive decision-making in complex network capacity situations.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across different functions, influencing and facilitating agreements to achieve shared network capacity goals.
• Manage cross-functional network capacity initiatives, ensuring continuous improvement and adherence to lean philosophy at scale.
• Own a portfolio of cross-functional programs related to network capacity, driving performance improvement and efficiency in project delivery.
• Identify and deliver operational improvement opportunities in network capacity, focusing on inventory management, logistics strategy, and transportation optimization.
• Monitor and optimize key network capacity metrics to ensure the smooth flow of goods or services through the supply chain network.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Bellevue, WA, USA | Nashville, TN, USA | Phoenix, AZ, USA BASIC QUALIFICATIONS - Bachelor's degree in operations, supply chain, business, engineering, finance, or related fields.
- 2+ years of program or project management experience, with a focus on network capacity.
- Experience using data and metrics to drive improvements in network capacity processes.
- Intermediate knowledge of MS Excel (vlookups, pivot tables at minimum) and familiarity of SQL.
