Senior Flight Capacity Planner - Network Planning, Amazon AIR

Key job responsibilities

• Lead medium to short range flight schedule development within Amazon AIR, serving as the primary point of contact for cross functional business units including ground transportation, fulfillment centers, and last mile operations.
• Develop and present data driven recommendations to senior leadership on network design changes, route adjustments, and capacity investments.
• Develop and optimize capacity plans and network strategy, driving continuous improvement across customer experience, cost efficiency, and sustainability metrics.
• Evaluate complex tradeoffs between customer needs and cost, building consensus across partner teams such as Finance, Operations, Process Engineering, and Procurement to drive aligned decision making.
• Partner with Research Science and Technology as a subject matter expert to design and develop next generation planning and forecasting tools.
• Analyze flight utilization, block hour efficiency, and network performance data to identify optimization opportunities
• Monitor and manage flight capacity allocation across the network, ensuring alignment between demand forecasts, and operational constraints.
• Navigate ambiguity while managing and coordinating multiple concurrent projects in a fast paced, deadline driven environment, taking full ownership and accountability for processes and delivering on commitments.
• Domestic travel up to 10% of the time.

About the team

Flight Capacity Planning is one of the pillars of the Network Planning (NWP) organization within AIR Supply Chain and Analytics. NWP owns the creation and revision of short to medium term operational plans, developing flight schedules from several months out through just days before departure. The team is responsible for setting the course for Amazon AIR to continuously raise the bar for customers by delivering the best possible mix of fast delivery speeds, low costs, and superior quality and reliability across the network.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree
• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree, or MBA in supply chain management, operations, engineering, analytics or related field
• 5+ years of driving process improvements experience
• Experience in the aviation industry