Manager, Strategic Supply Chain, Amazon Canada Retail

DESCRIPTION

Want to work in one of the most innovative retail businesses at Amazon? Are you passionate about solving complex problems in the supply chain and operations space? Amazon’s Canada Supply Chain Excellence (SCE) team is looking for a talented, driven, and highly analytical leader to help redefine how Amazon fulfills customer demand for some of our largest businesses. The Manager, Strategic Supply Chain for Canada SCE will lead a team that oversees inventory forecasting and buying, optimizes sourcing strategies, minimizes overstock risk, and drives management of systems and processes to ensure we achieve world-class availability and inventory health. This individual will also build and manage short- and long-range storage capacity plans for the Amazon Canada business. They will work closely with our category management teams, centralized product and program teams, internal operations, transportation and finance teams to drive Canada-wide initiatives that reduce operational costs and maximize long term free cash flow for Amazon. The ideal candidate will possess a strong analytical acumen, superb business judgment, a deep understanding of supply chain and operational levers, and a propensity to dive deep to solve complex problems. They must be a strong owner and influencer, and someone who can think beyond the way things have always been done. Key job responsibilities
• Oversee the Availability and Inventory Health group within Canada Retail SCE including forecasting, buying, inventory and capacity management
• Develop strategies and set goals for availability and inventory health including: improved in-stock rates, inventory planning, forecasting and purchase order confirmation rates
• Build short- and long-range plans for scaled improvements and operational excellence within Amazon Canada supply chain by influencing the product/program roadmap of internal partner teams
• Drive complex business analyses that identifies opportunities to improve cost structure and profitability
• Lead a team of supply chain managers – hire, manage and develop a team We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations: Arlington, VA, USA | Seattle, WA, USA

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Retail Planning, Information Systems Management
• 8+ years of professional or military experience in Supply Chain, Planning, or Inventory Management or equivalent experience such as Consulting, Finance, or Operations
• Has led teams and has the ability to drive through their team
• Superior analytical skills, with demonstrated ability to dive in and quickly understand root cause and identify scalable solutions
• Excellent business judgment, strong written and oral communication skills, and a practical, common sense approach to getting things done
• Experience working with complex data sets and communicating results to senior leaders
• Advanced Excel skills
• Demonstrated ability to operate both strategically and tactically in a high-energy, fast-paced environment
• High degree of organization and ability to manage multiple, competing priorities simultaneously
• Extreme attention to detail and willingness to roll up your sleeves
• Ability to thrive in a high energy environment where tactical and strategic activities are expected to be driven in parallel