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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.

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