Job Description
DESCRIPTION
Are you looking for a leadership role to build global supply chain products at an Amazon scale? Join Global Logistics in eliminating borders for buyers and sellers to drive Amazon's expansion into a rapidly growing list of countries, creating new logistics benchmarks and "firsts" through disruptive innovation. We are a multicultural, multilingual team working with vendors, sellers, shippers, and logistics providers.
The Global Ocean Operations team is looking for an Ocean Supply Chain Manager to manage ocean capacity planning for freight moving from global manufacturing hubs into Amazon's international marketplaces. This role will be responsible for driving effective planning processes with internal teams such as forecasting, procurement, and operations.
The ideal candidate will have a strong analytical background that enables them to manage multiple stakeholders across different programs, a demonstrated ability to think broadly and strategically about supply chain initiatives and the ability to persuade senior leaders to build consensus on objectives. Knowledge of international logistics is preferred.
Key job responsibilities
- Take ownership for the development of SOPs, guidelines and new processes
- Manage land-side performance in accordance to existing metrics; review and update metrics
- Develop risk management strategies for seasonal peak volumes, identify at-risk operations and proactively develop/execute contingency protocols to avoid service failures
- Work with internal stakeholders on weekly ocean capacity planning process
- Retrieve and analyze data using Excel, Tableau, SQL or other data visualization tools
- Successful candidates will be excellent communicators, curious, highly motivated and effective within distributed teams
About the team
Amazon offers a full range of benefits that support you and eligible family members, including domestic partners and their children. Benefits can vary by location, the number of regularly scheduled hours you work, length of employment, and job status such as seasonal or temporary employment. The benefits that generally apply to regular, full-time employees include:
1. Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage
2. Maternity and Parental Leave Options
3. Paid Time Off (PTO)
4. 401(k) Plan
Learn more about our benefits here:
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's degree in supply chain, business, engineering, finance or related technical or quantitative field
- Knowledge of Excel at an intermediate level (e.g., pivot tables & charts, multiple criteria lookups, nested logical/IF formulas, data cleansing, array formulas, etc.)
- Knowledge of SQL
- 2+ years of program or project management experience
- 1+ years of supply chain experience
Job Tags
Full time, Temporary work,