Amazon

DESCRIPTION

Have you ever ordered a product on Amazon websites and wondered how it got delivered to you so fast, and what kinds of systems & processes are running behind the scenes to power the whole operation? If so, this role is for you.

Key job responsibilities

You will be responsible for driving the long-term planning strategy for end-to-end EU Ops, enabling optimal trade-offs between cost and speed. Concretely you will own the Origin-Destination (OD) plan in the 3Y horizon guiding our topology and labor planning strategy. This is a highly visible position that requires influencing across multiple business teams, strong collaboration with tech teams, and interaction with senior leaders. The role requires a deep understanding of the end-to-end supply chain of Amazon.

The role includes 40% of stakeholder/project management and 60% analytical activities:

Innovation & Stakeholder/Project management:

• Collaborate with business stakeholder to understand their constraints and requirements for planning
• Collaborate with tech teams to generate optimal plans and what-if scenarios
• Identify additional opportunities to optimize the network: quickly launch pilots and build scale-up business cases.
• Lead regular business review with partner teams to monitor their adherence to plan and explain the planning guidance/ideal.
• Consolidate progress into crisp and concise data-driven status updates. You will own reporting to Amazon senior leadership (VP-level).

Data Analytics/Science:

• Deep dive complex data to uncover actionable insights for known and unknown problems.
• Good expertise with financials modelling (P&L, cashflow, mix/rate).

Candidates must be able to think and operate at all levels (both strategically and tactically).

About the team

Operations is at the heart of the Amazon customer experience. Each action we undertake is on behalf of our customers, as surpassing their expectations is our passion.

We improve customer experience through continuously optimizing the complex movements of goods from vendors to customers throughout Europe.

Global transportation analytical teams are transversal centers of expertise, composed of engineers, analysts, scientists, technical program managers and developers. We are focused on Amazon most complex problems, processes and decisions. We work with fulfillment centers, transportation, software developers, finance and retail teams across the world, to improve our logistic infrastructure and algorithms.

Fulfillment acceleration is one of those Global transportation analytical team.

We are obsessed by rethinking our advanced end-to-end supply chain to make our deliveries even faster.

Our overall mission is simple: we want Amazon to be the place where our customers can be delivered the next-day.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
• Experience in an analytical field
• Ability and strong willingness to use data to answer first time asked questions, and solve large-scale ambiguous problems.
• Ability to lead and structure projects, in particular liaising and collaborating with internal partners to influence direction and roadmaps, despite competing priorities
• Strong oral and written communication skills are crucial, in particular the ability to synthetize clearly complex issues
• An entrepreneurial mindset, with the tenacity to develop ideas independently and thrive in fast-paced environment
• Strong knowledge of SQL is mandatory

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Expert in SQL/Redshift is preferred
• Ability to progress autonomously in ambiguous environment

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