SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGER, NETWORK OPERATIONS

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With more and more customers to be served in Europe, Amazon is opening new Fulfillment Centers every year.
The EU Startup Team is responsible for getting these buildings ready with everything in place ready for the first package to leave the site.
The vision of Startup Supply Chain team is to provide excellent support to 40 deployment projects per year, ensuring on time supply & assembly of about items per project, from over 500 suppliers in 9 countries.
The EMEA SSC DPT scope includes the forecasting and ordering of all tail spend materials; Composite modules, Throughput modules, offices and services across all EMEA new launches and REs.
This is in addition to the Pre-construction ordering execution.
The EU Startup Supply Chain team is looking for a motivated startup supply chain project manager for demand planning team to support demand ordering activities for all fulfillment centers across Europe.
The supply chain project manager’s job would be facilitate ordering on time for projects, eliminate surplus caused by ordering, generate high quality PRs, manage stakeholders, dive deep into processes to ensure ordering KPI within time and quality metrices.
Amazon’s Supply Chain Managers play a central role in our Europe GES business.
They keep our complex demand planning for launches and REIs across Europe work seamlessly and efficiently.
As a Supply Chain Manager (SCM), you will work closely with multiple stakeholders across Amazon, such as Startup teams Startup PM, Inventory manager, Invoices, Global Procurement Launch & Expansion (GPLE), Global Procurement Organization (GPO), OpsTech IT and materials suppliers etc.
You’ll help us optimize our launch supply chain operation to make our customer experience even better and our business more cost efficient.
Ambiguity- Supply Chain Lead executes on demand planning process and is responsible for end-to-end demand planning for site specific tail spend materials in ambiguous situations.
He/she provides clarity and visibility through alignment on order need by date by horizontally collaborating with field PM, GPLE, Module team and Inventory team.
Influence - SCPM generally works within SSC team however they focus on larger cross-Startup deployment process.
They influence process at the Module deployment level – coordinate materials receive and approve payment.
They interact with GPLE, IT and category leaders as well external and vendors for escalations.
Communication – SCPM alsos supports relevant field teams and external teams such as preconstruction, design and construction providing order planning status per site/REI.
Process Improvement – SCPM completes dive deep analysis on the root causes for ordering misses, project deployment delays, and recommends process improvements to meet KPIs.
Impact – The main impact of SCPM is to deliver right material on time, aligned with site deployment plan to enable a successful ORT.
SCL also leads to cost avoidance by first prioritizing the transfer from depot and collaboration with IT RAD to ensure usage of existing stocks before the actual order is planned around it.
Supervision – SCPM do not have direct people management responsibilities.
However, they indirectly cooridnate work with new joiners at DPT and contigent resources in ordering execution.
Leadership – SCPM directly interact with.
Startup PM, Inventory manager, Invoices, Global Procurement Launch & Expansion (GPLE), Global Procurement Organization (GPO), OpsTech IT and materials suppliers.
Knowledge – SCPM manages large database.
They are able to dive deep into complex data collected from various sources (teams).
They own end-to-end inventory ordering process.
Execution – SCPM define requirements and identify key milestone for stakeholders involved in central ordering processes.
Would you like an opportunity to travel and work in multiple countries and cultures? The role will be based in different locations across Europe with 10% of time travelling either domestically or to other EMEA countries Key job responsibilities • Work load distribution for junior team members • Mentor specialists for work related queries • Own KPIs and drive On time delivery and quality • Timely processing of purchase requests and purchase orders (PR/PO).
• Creation of PRs with a focus on high quality.
• Effectively liaise with stakeholders, including startup project managers, and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders such as IT Supply Chain and GPLE.
• Ensure data accuracy and alignment with Finance team • Support reporting of ordering status and monitor accuracy • In-depth analysis of processes and orders • Formulation of new procedures, and establishment of policy guidelines to enhance efficiency across all EU facilities.
A day in the life Being a Supply Chain project Manager for Amazon involves lots of problem solving.
You’ll work with a number of teams to navigate challenges as and when situations impact our network.
You’ll spend time resolving temporary issues and looking at the bigger picture to drive Amazon towards achieving new objectives.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS - Experience in program or project management - Experience in supply chain - Bachelor's degree or equivalent - Knowledge of Excel at an intermediate level (e.
., pivot tables & charts, multiple criteria lookups, nested logical/IF formulas, data cleansing, array formulas, etc.) - Flexibility to travel up to 10% across projects.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS - Experience in MS Access and SQL - Bachelor's degree in supply chain, business, engineering, finance or related technical or quantitative field - Germany, French, Polish, Arabic, Turkish, Afrikaans and Zulu are considered preferred qualifications.
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