Job Description
DESCRIPTION
The Emerging Country Network Planning team is looking for a talented Senior Supply Chain Manager who will create solutions to optimize multi-year network topology design, along with Supply Chain planning processes for new country expansion. Our scope includes emerging countries such as Mexico, Brazil, Australia, Middle East, Singapore and new countries. As a team player you have an opportunity to work with some of the best Supply Chain professionals, tech teams, Worldwide Engineers, Operations Managers, Finance partners, and business leaders across the continents to design optimal Supply Chain network solutions with an objective to solve the conflicting goals and achieve best customer experience in the most cost efficient way.
This role requires working with cross-functional teams across the countries to jointly define requirements, develop Inbound topology and trans network solutions, and manage the timelines for all current and future projects. This position involves regular communication with senior management on status, risks/opportunities, and daily change control management. Cross-team coordination, project management, and executive interaction skills are essential.
This position requires superior analytical thinkers, ability to understand complex data, diving deep through various information sources, and working closely with technology partners, local / regional operations, and finance teams to rapidly iterate and deliver solutions. This position also requires to work across a variety of teams to drive long term strategic initiatives and driving best practices adoptions. Successful candidates must thrive in fast-paced environments which encourage collaborative and creative problem solving and critical thinking.
Key job responsibilities
- Lead projects for cross-functional teams focused on the delivery of a new feature, service, product, or system that meet cost optimization and delivery experience maximization goals.
- Contribute to the mid to long-term network planning process, tools, and features rollout and process standardization for new and emerging countries.
- Define the best topology for emerging countries by leveraging on optimization tool sets to find answers for critical strategic questions such as how many facilities to build, what kinds they should be, where to put them, how to expect them to operate in terms of inbound/outbound, and how to connect them in our transportation system.
- Gather requirements from appropriate business owners, write clear and detailed business requirement, prioritize features, and drive technical scoping as needed.
- Partner with established markets team to benchmark the best practices and tools to drive implementation and adoption for new countries.
- Create scalable mechanisms and best practices, actively work to remove bottlenecks.
- Effectively influence stakeholders without having direct authority.
- Communicate and drive strategic initiatives.
- Proactively identify gaps / opportunities and decide when to make a case for single-threaded owners and other resourcing.
- Around 5% annual travel to respective countries to understand local trans operations and processes.
A day in the life
Amazon offers a full range of benefits that support you and eligible family members, including domestic partners and their children. Benefits can vary by location, the number of regularly scheduled hours you work, length of employment, and job status such as seasonal or temporary employment. The benefits that generally apply to regular, full-time employees include:
1. Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage
2. Maternity and Parental Leave Options
3. Paid Time Off (PTO)
4. 401(k) Plan
If you are not sure that every qualification on the list above describes you exactly, we'd still love to hear from you! At Amazon, we value people with unique backgrounds, experiences, and skillsets. If you’re passionate about this role and want to make an impact on a global scale, please apply!
About the team
The (Emerging Country Network Planning) team works to optimize multi-year network topology design, along with Supply Chain planning processes for new country expansion. Our scope includes emerging countries such as Mexico, Brazil, Australia, Middle East (AE, KSA, EG), Turkey and Singapore, with more to come with further international expansion
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's degree
- 5+ years of experience in Supply Chain, Network planning, retail/e-commerce operations execution experience
- 5+ years using MS Excel, SQL, or other related data analysis tools
- Experience in stakeholder management, dealing with multiple stakeholders at varied levels of the organization
- 3+ years in a production, fulfillment, or planning environment
- 3+ years experience and success at leading cross functional programs
Job Tags
Full time, Temporary work, Seasonal work, Local area, Worldwide,