Amazon Transportation Services (ATS) is looking for a Capacity Planning Manager within the North American Sort Center (NASC) Long Term Planning team. Our team owns the Planning process and the analytics for both US and Canada sort center networks. The Amazon managed transportation network continues to grow in scale and complexity. As we onboard multiple new businesses through the middle mile transportation network – scalable solutions for future business needs, influencing change in our current processes and solutions to increase automation, and adaptation to complexity and ambiguity are critical to success.
We are looking for a strong leader to own our long term planning cycles and to help us design our network to support the Amazon speed and other transportation initiatives. This role will require you to work cross functionally and understand the long term requirements of the all programs that leverage the sort centers. This is a high impact and visibility role, as it requires recommending the future build plans and the capital investment needed for sort centers. As a part of the planning process, you will be interacting with senior-level audiences (including directors and VPs) from both internal and external teams mainly to get their alignment to the recommendation. The role will offer unique opportunity to develop the best-in-class middle mile network for the North American Sort center network to deliver high quality customer experience while minimizing cost and improving fulfillment speed. Besides the planning side, the role offers you to work on the Operations Research based planning tools and partner with research scientists to define new tools or improve existing.
Responsibilities
– Owning the operational planning cycles for NASC network
– Collaborating with multiple stakeholders within ATS team (Sort Centers, Line Haul, Amazon Air, Finance) and outside ATS (AMZL, NA Transportation, AMXL etc) teams
– Working with Sr Leadership (VP level) from various partner teams to drive alignment with business stake-holders
– Deep diving the gaps within planning tools/products and partnering with Operations Research Scientists team to address them
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Austin, TX, USA | Bellevue, WA, USA | Nashville, TN, USA
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
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $92,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $181,400/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.