Job Description
Have you ever ordered a product on Amazon websites and wondered how it got delivered to you so fast, and what kinds of systems & processes are running behind the scenes to power the whole operation? If so, this role is for you.
You will be responsible for driving the long-term planning strategy of Consolidation, achieving our vision to offer a best-in-class shopping experience which meets customer needs for receiving items together in one convenient delivery. This is a highly visible position that requires influencing across multiple business teams, strong collaboration with tech teams, and interaction with senior leaders (VP-leaders). The role requires a deep understanding of customer needs and thinking big about how we can make the customer experience seamless and delightful.
About the team
Operations is at the heart of the Amazon customer experience. Each action we undertake is on behalf of our customers, as surpassing their expectations is our passion.
We improve customer experience through continuously optimizing the complex movements of goods from vendors to customers throughout Europe.
Global transportation analytical teams are transversal centers of expertise, composed of engineers, analysts, scientists, technical program managers and developers. We are focused on Amazon most complex problems, processes and decisions. We work with fulfillment centers, transportation, software developers, finance and retail teams across the world, to improve our logistic infrastructure and algorithms.
Fulfillment acceleration is one of those Global transportation analytical team.
We are obsessed by rethinking our advanced end-to-end supply chain to make our deliveries even faster.
Our overall mission is simple: we want Amazon to be the place where our customers can be delivered the next-day.
The role includes 60% of stakeholder/project management and 40% analytical activities:
Innovation & Stakeholder/Project management:
- Collaborate with business stakeholder to define and help drive projects impacting consolidation.
- Collaborate with tech teams to generate the consolidation plan.
- Identify additional opportunities to increase consolidation: quickly launch pilots and build scale-up business cases.
- Lead regular business review with partner teams to monitor the progress of projects in the roadmap. Help into removing bottlenecks.
- Consolidate progress into crisp and concise data-driven status updates. You will own reporting to Amazon senior leadership (VP-level).
Data Analytics/Science:
- Deep dive complex data to uncover actionable insights for known and unknown problems.
- Good expertise with financials modelling (P&L, cashflow, mix/rate).
Candidates must be able to think and operate at all levels (both strategically and tactically).
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent
- Experience in an analytical field
- Ability and strong willingness to use data to answer first time asked questions, and solve large-scale ambiguous problems.
- Ability to lead and structure projects, in particular liaising and collaborating with internal partners to influence direction and roadmaps, despite competing priorities
- Strong oral and written communication skills are crucial, in particular the ability to synthetize clearly complex issues
- An entrepreneurial mindset, with the tenacity to develop ideas independently and thrive in fast-paced environment
- Strong knowledge of SQL is mandatory
Preferred qualifications
- Expert in SQL/Redshift is preferred
- Ability to progress autonomously in ambiguous environment