Senior Capacity Planning Manager, Amazon

OTR CP, AMZL

Salary not provided
SQL
Python
VBA
Senior level
London
Amazon

The largest online retailer and technology provider

Job no longer available

Amazon

The largest online retailer and technology provider

1001+ employees

B2CB2BMarketplaceCloud ComputingeCommerce

Job no longer available

Salary not provided
SQL
Python
VBA
Senior level
London

1001+ employees

B2CB2BMarketplaceCloud ComputingeCommerce

Company mission

Amazon aims to be Earth’s most customer centric company. Their mission is to continually raise the bar of the customer experience by using the internet and technology to help consumers find, discover and buy anything, and empower businesses and content creators to maximise their success.

Role

Who you are

  • The ideal candidate is passionate about leveraging data to deliver actionable insights that impact daily business, has a strong delivery record and has experience in driving execution in a cross-functional environment, backed by well defined analysis and research
  • They thrive in a fast-paced environment, relish working with data, and enjoys the challenge of solving complex and ambiguous problems
  • A successful candidate enjoys problem solving, is comfortable accessing and working with big data from multiple sources, and is enthusiastic about partnering with other teams across the business to deliver results
  • You should have an internal drive to challenge the status quo, excellent analytical skills, as well as excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • You should be a self-starter, comfortable with ambiguity, naturally curious, and be involved in the details
  • Bachelor's degree with experience in a program management role
  • Strong leadership skills; experience leading large scale project or programs; owning weekly & monthly status reports and updates
  • Strong Project management and analytical skills; Ability to manage different programs at a network level to influence and obtain buy-in, and then drive execution, analysis and achievement of the right results
  • Problem solving skills and the abilities to quantitatively analyse challenges, scope technical requirements, and effectively prioritise program deliverables
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills with understanding of tech development processes and software lifecycle
  • Proven track record for delivering results on large, cross functional, international milestone projects

Desirable

  • MBA or Master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science or operations related fields with minimum 5+ years of relevant experience
  • Experience in supply chain management/technologies and also in implementing Kaizen/ continuous improvement processes
  • Experience with agile or similar program management methodologies
  • Proven track record in communicating with technical and non-technical stakeholders across multiple business units and engaging with remote teams and external partners
  • Strong data manipulation background and ability to work with numbers on a daily basis; Experience with analysing big data sets; SQL, Python, VBA and similar a plus
  • Ability and interest to work in a fast-paced and ambiguous environment with good judgment in stressful situations
  • Ability to Deep Dive and develop innovative ideas for process challenges

What the job involves

  • The On-The-Road (OTR) Capacity Planning Team provides AMZL with safe, cost-optimal and flexible capacity solutions for on-road operations, year-round and enabling the business to scale for seasonal peak demand increases
  • This candidate will own defining and ramping programs to integrate new programs, business lines and delivery channels into the central AMZL OTR capacity planning cadence and process
  • You will identify the needs of the business, establish the product requirements and technology requirements to integrate the same, define a charter and execute this strategy end-to-end from inception to implementation
  • You will analyse gaps, iterate and improve future plans, while working across-functions and building key relationships to ensure that decisions and plans being made and execute, all come together for the benefit of the end customer and enables the AMZL operations to run as effectively as possible
  • You will challenge the unknown and strive for continuous improvement in key areas of our business
  • Drive optimisation of key OTR Capacity Planning metrics, to delight our customers on both performance and cost, by delivering projects to improve demand & supply planning, support systems and tools development
  • Identify and develop programs to address area of opportunity for standardisation and efficiency improvement within the end to end last mile supply chain
  • Support programs across multiple work stream, ensuring teams execute daily and weekly cadence while also delivering key programs on time
  • Engage and earn trust of operational leaders across EU Amazon Logistics to help drive standardisation of process and execution framework
  • Develop cross-functional relationships with first, middle mile, fulfilment and central teams to drive overall EU operations alignment
  • Partner with central tech and expansion teams to facilitate the translation of business requirements into technology requests, and ensuring that OTR capacity planning has access to the best in class management platforms
  • Implement a culture of continuous improvement through proven methodologies
  • Establish scalable hiring processes that meet the needs of a multi-site operations with a broad set of skills and language requirements

Salary benchmarks

Our take

Amazon is the world's largest online retailer, and is well-known for its disruption of well-established industries. The company is present in numerous verticals, including cloud computing with Amazon Web Services, AI with its range of Alexa devices and a global marketplace more commonly referred to as 'the everything store'. Acquisitions include Ring, Twitch, Whole Foods Market, and IMDb.

More recently, Amazon has been focused on leading the "third wave in digital advertising". Many businesses are now shifting ad dollars to retailers, which before would have been spent with online media platforms. Amazon's seen great success in the space, with its revenue from advertising now higher than its Amazon Prime membership scheme, audiobooks and digital music combined. This growth is particularly impressive considering its digital ad rivals (like Snap, Alphabet, and Meta) have suffered declines due to wider macroeconomic factors and Apple's iOS privacy changes.

Despite its dominant market position, Amazon will continue to be challenged over the next decade, including sustaining AWS's cloud dominance in the face of Google and Microsoft. On top of this, the company's e-commerce division is facing profitability problems despite its 2023 post-IPO debt funding of 8 billion. It will need to find new ways to stay above their competitors.

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Company benefits

  • Employees have opportunities to own Amazon stock, participate in 401(k) plans with company match, and enroll in paid life and accident insurance
  • Financial counseling and estate planning services are also available, plus paid short-term and long-term disability if needed
  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage to all our regular full-time employees, regardless of their level, tenure, or position
  • Amazon employees have free access to a network of more than 2 million caregivers, including nannies, babysitters and special-needs caretakers
  • Employees receive discounts on certain day care centers, and Amazon provides a variety of free resources for parents of children with autism, ADHD and developmental disabilities
  • Adoption assistance for qualified domestic and international adoption expenses including attorney fees, court costs, and travel
  • Leave Share program allows employees to give six weeks of paid parental leave to a spouse or partner who isn’t eligible for parental leave from their employer

Company values

  • Customer obsession rather than competitor focus
  • Passion for invention
  • Commitment to operational excellence
  • Long-term thinking

Company HQ

South Lake Union, Seattle, WA

Founders

Jeff Bezos

(Executive Chairman)

Jeff is an American business magnate, media proprietor, and investor. As well as founding Amazon, Jeff founded Blue Origin, an aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company and also owns The Washington Post.

Andy Jassy

(President & CEO (not founder))

Joined Amazon as a Marketing Manager in 1997. Developed AWS with Jeff Bezos, and became CEO of Amazon in 2021.

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