Global Logistics Engineer, Global Transportation & Logistics (GTL)
Amazon · Nashville, TN · 5 days ago
DistributionFull-time
Key job responsibilities
- Data, Analytics & Cost Optimization
- Build and maintain dashboards providing end-to-end shipment visibility across global regions.
- Identify, quantify, and implement cost savings through carrier rate analysis, service optimization, and process automation.
- Track ROI and develop insight-first narratives for leadership.
- Drive root cause analysis on logistics failures and corrective actions.
- Process Improvement & Technology
- Consolidate fragmented workflows into unified systems.
- Support TMS improvements and champion AI/ML, scripting, and automation to eliminate manual processes and scale operations.
- Drive cross-functional projects from requirements through deployment managing timelines, stakeholder alignment, and risk escalation.
- Document SOPs and engineering standards for global use.
- Network Design & Optimization
- Conduct quantitative analyses on network topology, consolidation modeling, and transportation efficiency to deliver data-driven recommendations for senior leadership.
- Model origin-destination flows, mode mix (ocean, air, rail, truckload, LTL, parcel, inter-modal), and consolidation strategies to minimize landed cost.
- Provide feasibility analysis and cost modeling for new business opportunities to inform go/no-go decisions.
- Carrier Strategy, Compliance & Sustainability
- Support carrier sourcing, onboarding, rate analysis, and performance management across all modes.
- Design processes supporting trade compliance, customs, Incoterms, and dangerous goods regulations.
- Develop sustainability metrics aligned with Science Based Targets including Scope 3 emissions.
- Global Collaboration & Business Requirements
- Collaborate across EMEA, APAC, LATAM, and the Americas to align logistics standards, processes, and reporting.
- Author Business Requirements Documents translating operational needs into system enhancements and validate post-deployment results.
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree
- 4+ years of supply chain experience
- 4+ years of working cross functionally with tech and non-tech teams experience
- 4+ years of defining and implementing process improvement initiatives using data and metrics experience
- 4+ years of program or project management experience
- 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 defining program requirements and using data and metrics to determine improvements
- Experience with AI/ML technologies and their application to global logistics optimization
Preferred Qualifications
- Master's degree
- 5+ years of driving end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership experience
- 5+ years of driving process improvements experience
- Experience in stakeholder management, dealing with multiple stakeholders at varied levels of the organization
- Knowledge of SQL at an intermediate level, including: compile queries, subqueries, aggregation/grouping, data modification, etc.