Sr. Supply Chain Manager - Amazon Shipping, SWA S&OP
About the role
The Demand Planning Senior Supply Chain Manager solves the questions of how to make shipping services best in class, how to offer shipping services to more customers, and how to optimize the network to remove constraints and increase speed. This role works across the organization in a cross-functional environment with Operations, Product, and Tech teams to define the needs, goals, and execution plans to create a world-class transportation network. The Senior Supply Chain Manager maintains and reports up-to-date and accurate statistics, management reports, and analysis, facilitates the flow of information between different stakeholders, resolves potential issues that impact customer experience and business continuity, and provides timely resolution by researching and querying internal tools and making real-time decisions.
Key job responsibilities
- Work with partner teams across various supply chain functions like transportation, engineering, launch, finance, and operational planning (under the roof and on-road)
- Leverage historical data to create forward-looking planning models to integrate in partnership with business teams
- Utilize problem-solving skills to work through difficult challenges
- Provide forecast and work with downstream and upstream stakeholders, such as Amazon Logistics (AMZL) and North America Sort Center (NASC), to plan for capacity
- Collaborate with AMZL and NASC to drive capacity decisions such as hiring, vehicle procurement and onboarding Delivery Service Partners
- Improve demand forecast and route planning accuracy
- Drive commingling opportunities to improve shipments per route and overall cost per unit
- Integrate reverse-logistics demand with existing Amazon Shipping Operations demand
- Present data-driven proposals and plans to Sr. Leadership
- Travel 5% each quarter required (Quarterly offsites)
A day in the life
The Demand Planning & Forecasting Supply Chain Manager operates in an ambiguous environment. This role balances between big thinking and tactical execution, requiring direct analyses and partnering with stakeholders across Amazon.
About the team
The team leverages Amazon's broad logistics networks to create new shipping services and open the doors for unique customer segments. The team values diverse thoughts and believes that happy team members are productive team members.
Basic qualifications
- 5+ years of program or project management experience
- 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
- 2+ years of driving process improvements experience
- Master's degree, or MBA in business, operations, human resources, adult education, organizational development, instructional design or related field
Pay
- USA, GA, Atlanta: $115,400.00 - $160,000.00 USD annually
- USA, TN, Nashville: $103,900.00 - $148,400.00 USD annually
- USA, TX, Austin: $115,400.00 - $160,000.00 USD annually
- USA, WA, Bellevue: $115,400.00 - $160,000.00 USD annually