Supply Chain Manager - Amazon Freight Job at Amazon.com Services LLC, Bellevue, WA

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  • Amazon.com Services LLC
  • Bellevue, WA

Job Description

DESCRIPTION

Join Amazon's dynamic environment as a Supply Chain Manager, where you will play a crucial role in shaping and optimizing various facets of our operations, concentrating on optimizing and managing the flow of goods, information, or services within the supply chain network. We have exciting opportunities across different business units, each seeking a skilled professional to lead strategic initiatives and drive process improvements, with a specific focus on network capacity and the physical flow of goods or services within the supply chain network. As a Strategic Supply Chain Manager, you'll take end-to-end ownership of operations, emphasizing capacity planning, logistics optimization, network design, and analysis of operational efficiency.

In this role, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Business, Operations, Supply Chain, Product, Finance, and more. Utilize your analytical prowess to identify opportunities for operational improvements, implement scalable systems, and drive automation to enhance efficiency, with a particular focus on optimizing the physical flow and operations within the supply chain network. Whether you're managing network capacity initiatives, overseeing cross-functional programs, or focusing on strategic projects, your impact will be visible, ongoing, and contribute directly to our commitment to being the most customer-centric company on earth.

Key job responsibilities
• Lead strategic initiatives related to network capacity within Amazon's various business units.
• Concentrate on optimizing and managing the flow of goods, information, or services within the supply chain network.
• Balance supply and demand, assess and improve the efficiency of distribution networks, warehouses, or logistics operations.
• Analyze and synthesize data to identify opportunities for enhancing customer experiences and operational efficiency in network capacity.
• Define metrics, develop program management mechanisms, and invent/simplify processes to drive decision-making in complex network capacity situations.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across different functions, influencing and facilitating agreements to achieve shared network capacity goals.
• Manage cross-functional network capacity initiatives, ensuring continuous improvement and adherence to lean philosophy at scale.
• Own a portfolio of cross-functional programs related to network capacity, driving performance improvement and efficiency in project delivery.
• Identify and deliver operational improvement opportunities in network capacity, focusing on inventory management, logistics strategy, and transportation optimization.
• Monitor and optimize key network capacity metrics to ensure the smooth flow of goods or services through the supply chain network.

About the team
Amazon Freight is building a disruptive transportation product with the vision of redefining shipping for its customers. The goal is to develop easy-to-use, reliable and transparent transportation services that raise the customer experience bar relative to all existing shipping alternatives. In doing this, Amazon is deeply studying customer shipping needs and building innovative, market-leading solutions that will organically attract customers towards our services.


To enable us to succeed in this large endeavor, we are looking for a Supply Chain Manager to play a critical role in optimizing our first mile operations or picking freight up from shippers and delivering them to Amazon Freight Less-Than-Truckload terminals. This individual is tasked with analyzing large sets of data, identifying opportunities for improvement, aligning with key stakeholders and piloting projects and initiatives. This person will also be asked to directly interface with product stakeholders and create scalable solutions.


Main areas of ownership include: (1) using data to identify opportunities for performance improvement, (2) building consensus among stakeholders on potential solution, (3) driving and adjusting pilots, and (4) identifying requirements for a scalable solution across Amazon Freight's Less-Than-Truckload network.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- • Bachelor's degree in operations, supply chain, business, engineering, finance, or related fields.
- • 2+ years of program or project management experience.
- • Experience using data and metrics to drive process improvements.
- • Intermediate knowledge of MS Excel (vlookups, pivot tables at minimum) and familiarity of SQL.

Job Tags

Full time,

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