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Amazon Transportation Network Design Program Manager, EU Transportation Network Design in Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Description
Amazon’s European Transportation Network Design team is responsible for getting Amazon packages to customers more reliably, faster, cheaper, and with a lower carbon intensity, while managing to grow the shipped volume by double digits every year.
As a Program Manager for Network Design, you'll lead programs driving strategic initiatives and solving recurring problems around delivery quality, speed, cost and carbon intensity of the Amazon Transportation network. The scale of the impact you’ll have will be on the whole European Amazon network and lasting in time. Your goal is not just to solve problems once, but also to build new tools and improve processes to make sure the problems stay solved. This is essential to the scalability of the Amazon Transportation Network.
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
Our team changes the way Amazon packages get from our warehouses to our customers to improve quality, speed, cost and carbon efficiency, all at the same time, while managing double-digit yearly volume growth.
We help Amazon Transportation get ready for the Christmas period and tackle big recurring problems, all to remove waste from the network.
Basic Qualifications
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
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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