Transportation Manager, Network and Speed - 3P Operations Transportation

- Bachelor's degree

- Knowledge of Excel (Pivot Tables, VLookUps) at an advanced level and SQL

- Experience in program or project management

- Experience working cross functionally with tech and non-tech teams

- Experience in defining and implementing process improvement initiatives using data and metrics

- Experience defining program requirements and using data and metrics to determine improvements

- Experience in driving end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership

- Experience leading process improvements

- Experience in stakeholder management, dealing with multiple stakeholders at varied levels of the organization

- Experience building processes, project management, and schedules

Amazon’s European Expansions Transportation team is looking for an enthusiastic, customer obsessed, Program Manager to manage projects, implement and improve metrics, improve supply chain routes, and ensure that packages move efficiently throughout Europe from fulfillment centers to customers.

Responsibilities include (but are not limited to):

To be successful in this role, you need a passion for making data driven decisions which will have direct impact on the customer experience. Some keys to your success are the ability to be an effective communicator to various audiences. The ability to remain flexible and adapt to learning new tools and systems is instrumental your role on the team. Our environment is deadline driven, fast paced and requires you to be detail-oriented and comfortable interacting or working with multiple teams (business and technical).

The ideal candidate has a background of running cross-functional projects. The candidate is as comfortable working on high-level strategy and design, as they are rolling-up their sleeves and working on implementation. They have demonstrated the ability to build customized logistics solutions, drive process improvement, standardize procedures and eliminate the root cause of defects within current systems. This job will require strong communication skills while having the ability to work independently in a high pressure, and often ambiguous, work environment. Passion and drive for customer service is a must.

• Driving performance improvement with our partner carriers. Completion of root cause analysis on all defects and using these data to drive continuous improvement activities.

• Responding with best in class service to internal clients (Retail/Fulfillment Centers) regarding costs, status of freight, availability of freight and exceptions to the schedule of freight.

• Creating and implementing improvements to our transportation network that deliver flexible and efficient products for our customers (such as expedited and high value freight options).