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Amazon Transportation Program Manager, Trans Network Engineering in London, United Kingdom
Description
At Amazon, we are always exploring new opportunities to shape our global business. As a Program Manager, you’ll be an essential part of innovating and transforming our processes. You’ll be taking the lead on the design and launch of new programs for our customers. You’ll also oversee programs that are already running and find ways to improve them. This is your opportunity to have a big impact on some of the most exciting new ideas that are shaping the future of Amazon.
Do you recognize yourself in this?
You are data-driven and enjoy analyzing large quantities of data and turning them into crisp insights
You are an excellent problem solver, with a demonstrated ability to bring structure to complex projects and break them down into smaller pieces
You are able to deliver projects against tight deadlines and are comfortable with competing priorities.
You get energy from finding root causes for recurring problems and inventing new tools and processes to avoid them.
You are eager to learn about the complexities of Amazon's transportation network and the systems that support it. At the same time, you have the communication skills to explain this to someone without subject matter expertise.
You are able to coordinate multiple cross-functional projects in parallel across Tech, Operations, Supply Chain and Finance.
You have a drive to constantly learn and improve yourself
You can translate strategic directions into a project roadmap and build the resourcing plan to deliver on this roadmap
Then this is a role for you! We're looking forward to your application.
Key job responsibilities
Define the frameworks to make trade-offs between quality, speed, cost and carbon intensity
Find situations in the network where these tradeoffs are not applied correctly, leading to an inefficient network
Build a proof of concept to solve the problem initially
Work with Business Intelligence / Software Development to automate the methodology
Set up the mechanism to regularly review the gaps in optimality and suggest network changes to make sure the problem stays fixed
About the team
Amazon’s EU Global Transportation Service (GTS) team is looking for an enthusiastic and customer obsessed Program Manager, to lead the EU Transportation Network Engineering team in EU, and help us design and optimize our transportation network. The role will involve understanding the physical and virtual transportation processes, from our fulfillment centers on to our final mile carriers who deliver our packages to our customers. As part of the EU Customer Fulfillment Network Design team you will combine business process knowledge, data expertise, and analysis skills to identify and drive programs within our transportation network.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
London, GBR
Basic Qualifications
Bachelor's degree
Knowledge of Excel (Pivot Tables, VLookUps) at an advanced level and SQL
Experience working cross functionally with tech and non-tech teams
Experience defining program requirements and using data and metrics to determine improvements
Experience in program or project management
Experience implementing repeatable processes and driving automation or standardization
Experience defining and executing program requirements
Preferred Qualifications
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
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