Supply Chain Manager

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? If so, Amazon Rapid Rural Logistics is looking for you. Team is looking for a Long Term Planning Supply Chain Manager to design how we will scale across North America. Candidates for the Network Planning 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, and technology teams. Key job responsibilities
- Knowledge to quickly understand and assess simulation results and the business impact of trends to make the best decisions based on available data
- Configure the inputs driving shipping decisions for packages in our global transportation network
- Define metrics to measure transportation performance and drive continuous improvement by identifying ways to streamline processes and reduce non-value added work
- Pull and report data from numerous databases (using Excel, Access, SQL and/or other data management systems) and to perform ad hoc reporting and analysis as needed
- Maintain and report up to date and accurate statistics, management reports and analysis
- Facilitate the flow of information between different stakeholders (Delivery Stations/Fulfillment Centers/Sort Centers)
- Systematically escalate problems or variance in the information and data to the relevant owners and teams and follow through on the resolutions to ensure that they are delivered
- Communicate with external customers (Carriers, Vendors/Suppliers) and internal customers (Retail, Finance, Software Support, Fulfillment Centers)
- Problem solve and design solutions for Amazon's transportation network, support large scale transportation programs We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations: Bellevue, WA, USA | Nashville, TN, USA | Pheonix, AZ, USA

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 2+ years of program or project management experience
- 3+ years of defining and implementing process improvement initiatives using data and metrics experience
- 2+ years of supply chain experience
- Bachelor's degree
- Knowledge of Excel (Pivot Tables, VLookUps) at an advanced level and SQL