Supply Chain Manager, NASC Planning, NASC

Supply Chain Manager

The North America Sort Center network is experiencing explosive growth and looking for a highly skilled, motivated and experienced Supply Chain Manager with a strong delivery record and leadership experience to join our Network Planning Team. The Sort centers are the critical middle mile solution in the Amazon Transportation Services (ATS) group that links the fulfillment centers to the last mile/customers. The experience of our customers is dependent upon our ability to accurately, timely, and efficiently sort and deliver packages across North America. This role requires strong quantitative and analytical skills, facilitating ideation, and working from concept through execution. This position will partner and drive operational excellence with Engineering, Field Operations, Global Transportation, Last Mile Delivery, Topology, Finance, and Technology teams to determine root cause of operational challenges, drive process improvements, build KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) and metrics, un-earth opportunities, and present findings and recommendations to business partners and management.

The Supply Chain Manager will manage medium to large-scale projects that are innovative or complex and require quick, accurate delivery as cost effectively as possible. In addition, the position requires strong written and verbal communication skills, strong focus on internal customers, high intellectual curiosity to learn new concepts and methodologies, and ability to adapt and thrive in a fast-paced, high change environment.

Key job responsibilities:

• Work with teams across Amazon to identify opportunities and provide data driven decision support to improve volume planning and forecast accuracy for sort center operations, network volume flow, labor cost savings and productivity, transportation costs, and overall customer service.
• Communicate network changes, programs and events that will impact future short, medium, and long term sort and delivery operations to various stakeholders.
• Lead and manage the development of automated predictive and network flow optimization solutions.
• Identify and analyze opportunities to service new initiatives/programs.
• Own the design and development of ongoing metrics, key performance indicators, reports, and dashboards to drive key business decisions.
• Provide analytical network support to improve quality and standard work results.
• Deep dive process breakdowns and provide recommendations to sustainably resolve issues.
• Collaborate with BI/Data Engineer teams and drive the collection of new data and the refinement of existing data sources to continually improve data quality.
• Foster culture of continuous improvement through mentoring, feedback, and metrics.