Sr Capital Planning Manager, International Capital Management

The Sr Capital Planning Manager supports the capital planning and operations processes supporting capital planning operations for new launches and Retrofits expansions and initiatives across all miles in the APAC network.

At Amazon we believe that Every Day is still Day One!
At Amazon were working to be the most customer-centric company on earth. To get there we need exceptionally talented bright and driven people. Amazon is looking to hire a talented and committed Sr Capital Planning Manager for its growing Intl Capital Planning and Governance team to play a critical role in managing Amazons fast growth and technology innovation needs.

A day to take a first step. A day to look forward to new challenges. And today is that day for you. Its your day to be part of something great. A day to make your ideas come to life. And your day to join a company that redefines itself every day. Thats the energy and passion behind Amazon.

Successful candidates will have a strong level of ownership and be highly motivated individuals. This individual will support other teams to deliver fulfillment network capacity on time. The Capital Planning and governance Manager will develop and help simplify processes will have a high work capacity while being detail oriented and agile to manage the impact of business changes. This individual needs to be comfortable interfacing with and influencing various functional teams and individuals at all levels of the organization to be successful.

Analytics and process improvements are also a focus area for this role: how can we do better how can we better serve our customers and how can we use our data to move the needle for the business.

Role requirements:
1. Build the capital plan for APAC including cost estimating and benchmarking for new launches (MHE real estate construction)
2. Lead / support on approvals for Capital Appropriation Requests (CARs) including working with 10 stakeholders to develop the approvals
3. Analytics - provide governance oversight of the capital invested to ensure adherence to scope adherence to spending and transaction policy and insights on change orders supplemental funding drivers and root cause to improve the capital planning process.


Key job responsibilities
-Work with internal Amazon teams to deliver network capacity on time through capital planning effectiveness:
-Work with cross-functional stakeholders to drive program adherence.
-Create submit and track the relevant Capex documentation to enable all projects to be delivered on time within budget and at best overall value.
-Track the status of all critical inputs for active funding requests.
-Develop maintain and audit standard item lists containing unit price vendor part # etc. for standard process equipment.
-General data entry and data auditing tasks.
-Schedule and moderate multiple weekly standing meetings with internal teams to obtain or share information and track deliverables.
-Evaluate and simplify current working procedures and improve organizational team structure.
-Deep dive on technical details and lead problem resolution on an as needs basis.
-Provide equipment projections to procurement and partner for best value and competitiveness.
-Coordinate information between various teams in the organization.
-Govern capital funding post-approval (cost control) of spend against plan including root cause of changes supplemental funding requests etc.
-Understand operational processes.
-Use SQL and analytics to drive data

A day in the life
60% of the time will be managing capital funding requests liaising between key stakeholders (Project Managers and Directors).
The remaining 40% of the time will be spent on process improvements driving key value from the International Capital planning and Governance: data dashboards metrics and KPIs.

- Bachelors degree or above in engineering project management operations logistics supply chain or related field
- Experience working in an operations supply chain transportation project management or management consulting role
- Experience handling multiple competing priorities and complex projects with multiple stakeholders (e.g. definition of accurate network expansion plans vendor development quality assurance design and cost improvement team and stakeholder engagement)

- Experience communicating clearly and concisely with leadership stakeholders and cross-functional teams
- Experience prioritizing and managing multiple responsibilities
- Masters degree or above in finance accounting business economics engineering analytics mathematics statistics or a related technical or quantitative field
- Experience with financial analysis and modeling
- Project Management Professional (PMP) certification
- 4 years of leading cross-functional teams across engineering operations and field execution through launch readiness and go-live phases experience or experience in Amazon RME (Reliability Maintenance and Engineering) fulfillment operations or automation deployment environments

Acknowledgement of country:
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IDE statement:
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