Amazon Tempe, AZ 85282
Description
Amazon's Global Supply Chain (GSC) team is seeking a leader to join as a Sr. Supply Chain Manager, Supply Chain Innovation. This role is at the forefront of shaping Amazon's future inbound supply chain designs and strategies, ensuring a synchronized view of inventory flow, transportation, storage and fulfillment network, and the capacity and capabilities designed to facilitate them all. This is a high impact role with an opportunity to influence one of the most high visibility and high impact areas.
As Sr. Supply Chain Manager, you will lead a team to establish and drive a large-scale, multi-year roadmap of the distribution center convergence work stream. Your expertise will be instrumental in large network transformations, planning and review mechanisms to ensure roadmap and strategy alignments across organizations, define metrics, and use data to manage trade-off decisions. Additionally, you will play a key role in influencing the future of storage and distribution center building designs, topology, technical capabilities, and fulfillment capabilities. Working within our innovative Supply Chain Innovation (SCI) team, you'll be part of a group that identifies, evaluates, and leads transformative initiatives to improve end-to-end cost, speed, and network resiliency.
Key job responsibilities
- Lead strategic discussions of Distribution Center convergence work stream with long-term impacts to Amazon's various business units.
- Develop Network design tenets, vision, and roadmap for implementation.
- Build mechanisms to consolidate and inspect inbound metrics; provide new insights to senior leadership to improve their understanding of inbound
- Partner with stakeholders from Supply Chain, Product, Operations, BI, and Finance to evaluate new initiatives; evolve the process into a highly automated and structured approach
- Conduct independent research to identify supply chain inefficiencies, recommend solves, and influence partner teams to prioritize and execute
- Participate in leadership discussions on inbound vision and strategy; influence organizational-level decisions and align roadmaps to deliver the vision
About the team
At SCI, we're not content with incremental improvements. Our mission is to identify, evaluate, and spearhead transformative initiatives that revolutionize Amazon's Inbound Supply Chain, dramatically enhancing cost-effectiveness, speed, and network resiliency. We tackle high-impact, broad-scope challenges that transcend traditional boundaries, providing the leadership needed to develop, trial, and scale solutions for full network implementation.
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
- Bachelor's degree
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
- The ideal candidate is someone with a track record of driving strategic initiatives, large scale network design transformation, creating repeatable and scalable mechanisms, delivering results under tight timelines, and communicating well both verbally and in writing.
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $103,900/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 . This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.