At Amazon we work every day to be the most Customer-centric company on earth. To do this the Sub Same Day team is constantly bringing new and exciting delivery products customer selection and exceptionally fast delivery speeds to new and existing Customers. To offer these products at a low cost we are building one of the worlds fastest and most efficient supply chain networks. The Sub Same Day team is seeking a Sr Supply Chain Manager who will own projects to improve network performance for customer facing quality metrics (i.e. Delivery Estimate Accuracy).
We are looking for a dynamic self-starter who will learn quickly and thrives in an ambiguous environment. As a Sr Supply Chain Manager you will be responsible for building our roadmap to improve SSD delivery quality performance drive process program and policy change across the organization and report on performance versus business goals.
Key job responsibilities
Thrive in an environment of ambiguity managing and coordinating multiple project assignments simultaneously in a fast-paced deadline-driven environment accepting ownership and accountability of the process and delivering on commitments
- Understand Amazon supply chain technology systems people and process at a level of depth required to lead new or existing programs
- Collaborate and lead internal business units including supply chain colleagues deliver experience product field operations transportation finance research science technology and engineering teams to effectively integrate new store concepts and delivery products
- Mine data quickly and efficiently to develop creative solutions to emerging customer problems and appropriate supply chain metrics to measure new product success
- Creating reports and process improvement initiatives to improve efficiency and quality of execution
- Communicate effectively both written and verbally with both external customers (Service Providers Carriers Vendors) and internal customers (Finance Technology Site Leadership Linehaul providers etc)
- Communicating goals roles responsibilities and desired outcomes to cross-functional project teams to gain buy-in and delivery to project schedules
- Working within time constraints; problem solve remove barriers and coordinate with stakeholders
A day in the life
A day would generally include a close connection to daily outcome metrics across similar lines of business and staying close to industry trends; learning what does and does not resonate with customers. Bringing these learnings into the workplace the individual in this role will be a resource to the entire supply chain organization helping to organize the team programmatically to lead cross functional projects to completion and/or maturation. You will partner very heavily with FC operations and Amazon Flex. This individual should excel at earning trust have a willingness to step into and solve problems and think long term to solve our biggest problems.
- Bachelors degree
- 5 years of program or project management experience
- 5 years of supply chain experience
- Experience using data and metrics to determine and drive improvements
- Experience owning program strategy end to end delivery and communicating results to senior leadership
- 2 years of driving process improvements experience
- Masters degree or MBA in business operations human resources adult education organizational development instructional design or related field
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