Amazons Global Supply Chain (GSC) team is looking for a leader to join our team as a Principal Supply Chain Manager Supply Chain Innovation. The position plays an important role in shaping the future of Amazons inbound supply chain designs and strategies ensuring a synchronized view of inventory flow transportation storage and fulfillment network and the capacity and capabilities designed to facilitate them all. This is a high impact role with an opportunity to influence one of the most high visibility and high impact areas.
This Principal Supply Chain Manager will lead a team to establish and drive a largescale multiyear roadmap of the distribution center convergence work stream. This person will play a key role in large network transformations planning and review mechanisms to ensure roadmap and strategy alignments across organizations define metrics and use data to manage tradeoff decisions.
Additionally this person will play a key role in influencing the future of storage and distribution center building designs topology technical capabilities and fulfillment capabilities.
The ideal candidate is someone with a track record of driving strategic initiatives large scale network design transformation creating repeatable and scalable mechanisms delivering results under tight timelines and communicating well both verbally and in writing.
Key job responsibilities
Lead strategic discussions of Distribution Center convergence work stream with longterm impacts to Amazons various business units.
Develop Network design tenets vision and roadmap for implementation.
Build mechanisms to consolidate and inspect inbound metrics; provide new insights to senior leadership to improve their understanding of inbound
Partner with stakeholders from Supply Chain Product Operations BI and Finance to evaluate new initiatives; evolve the process into a highly automated and structured approach
Conduct independent research to identify supply chain inefficiencies recommend solves and influence partner teams to prioritize and execute
Participate in leadership discussions on inbound vision and strategy; influence organizationallevel decisions and align roadmaps to deliver the vision
About the team
Supply Chain Innovation (SCI) identify evaluate and lead Inbound Supply Chain initiatives and scale them to improve end to end cost speed and network resiliency. For initiatives with high impact and broad scope with no clear line of ownership we provide leadership to develop trial and scale solutions to full network implementation
Bachelors degree
7 years of managing analyzing and communicating results to senior leadership experience
Experience implementing repeatable processes and driving automation or standardization
Experience defining program requirements and using data and metrics to determine improvements
7 years of working cross functionally across several teams experience
Experience in network design network transformation and network optimization
MBA
Experience delivering projects within scope time budget and quality
10 years of supply chain experience
10 years of program or project management experience
Experience with multiyear initiatives across multiple organizations
Experience with large process implementation
Experience providing expert advice analyzing situations gathering data and presenting solutions to clients or businesses to address specific needs
Excellent problemsolving communication and analytical skills within a projectbased framework
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $128600/year in our lowest geographic market up to $212600/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.