Transportation Specialist Lead LTL

Amazons Transportation Operations team is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Transportation Lead Specialist to assist in the management of daily freight movements flowing into and out of our North American fulfillment centers and our associated fulfillment network. This is an exciting opportunity to join our team and to have a positive impact on Amazon our transportation partners and ultimately our customers. When network disruptions happen youll be at the forefront of helping the network/transportation partners clear those issues and ensure our customers get shipments on time.

An ideal candidate has a background in transportation and excellent program management skills. They have the ability to pull and analyze data with ease drive process improvements standardize our processes and eliminate the root cause of defects within the current systems. This job will require exceptional communication skills while having the ability to work independently in a highpressure environment.

Key job responsibilities
Continual tactical communication with external customers (Carriers Vendors/Suppliers) and internal customers (Retail Finance Software Support Fulfillment Centers).
Excellent communication both verbal and written as you will be required to create a narrative outlining your weekly findings and the variances to goals and present these finding in a review forum.
Work within various time constraints to meet critical business needs while measuring and identifying activities performed.
Lead initiatives to reengineer business processes and identify and eliminate root causes of defects in order to drive efficiency in Amazons transportation operations.
Must be able to systematically escalate problems or variance in the information and data to the relevant owners and teams and follow through on the resolutions to ensure they are delivered.
Ability to pull data from numerous databases (using Excel Access SQL (Structured Query Language) and/or other data management systems) and to perform ad hoc reporting and analysis as needed.
Perform leadership functions for the team including regular 1:1 coaching and development sessions and directing the team as needed during the work day.
Develop performance metrics to assist with driving business results.
Ability to scope out business and functional requirements for the Amazon tech teams who create and enhance the software systems and tools we use.
Must be able to quickly understand the business impact of the trends and make decisions that make sense based on available data.
Calls will be monitored and recorded for training and compliance purposes.

High school or equivalent diploma
Knowledge of Excel at an intermediate level (e.g. pivot tables & charts multiple criteria lookups nested logical/IF formulas data cleansing array formulas etc.
Experience managing large data sets and utilizing to drive performance and process improvements

1 years of program management logistics operations supply chain transportation or equivalent experience
1 years of management experience
Bachelors degree
Experience with SQL

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $46600/year in our lowest geographic market up to $74800/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on jobrelated knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity signon payments and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package in addition to a full range of medical financial and/or other benefits. For more information please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.