What are the responsibilities and job description for the Principal Supply Chain Manager, Supply Chain Innovation position at Amazon?
DESCRIPTION
Amazon’s Global Supply Chain (GSC) team is looking for a leader to join our team as a Principal Supply Chain Manager, Supply Chain Innovation. The position plays an important role in shaping the future of Amazon's 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.
This Principal Supply Chain Manager will lead a team to establish and drive a large-scale, multi-year roadmap of the distribution center convergence work stream. This person will play a key role 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, this person will play a key role in influencing the future of storage and distribution center building designs, topology, technical capabilities, and fulfillment capabilities.
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.
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
Supply Chain Innovation (SCI) identify, evaluate, and lead Inbound Supply Chain initiatives, and scale them to improve end to end cost, speed, and network resiliency. For initiatives with high impact and broad scope with no clear line of ownership, we provide leadership to develop, trial, and scale solutions to full network implementation
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's degree
- 7 years of managing, analyzing and communicating results to senior leadership experience
- Experience implementing repeatable processes and driving automation or standardization
- Experience defining program requirements and using data and metrics to determine improvements
- 7 years of working cross functionally across several teams experience
- Experience in network design, network transformation, and network optimization
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- MBA
- Experience delivering projects within scope, time, budget and quality
- 10 years of supply chain experience
- 10 years of program or project management experience
- Experience with multi-year initiatives across multiple organizations
- Experience with large process implementation
- Experience providing expert advice, analyzing situations, gathering data, and presenting solutions to clients or businesses to address specific needs
- Excellent problem-solving, communication, and analytical skills, within a project-based framework
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $128,600/year in our lowest geographic market up to $212,600/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.
Salary : $128,600 - $212,600
