Supply Chain Manager, US Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP)

Job description

At Amazon Supply Chain, we power the world's fastest-growing e-commerce business and embrace the mission of being Earth’s most customer-centric company. As our business continues to expand, the customer fulfillment operations become larger and more complex each year.

We are now seeking an experienced Supply Chain Manager to build and run an end to end process including input consumption, forecast validation and integration/plan publish to downstream teams. This is a Day 1 opportunity to be part of an entrepreneurial and pioneering team building from the ground up. You will understand cross functional dependencies, map out the existing process flow and make recommendations to improve on the teams future state.

You will also analytically manage the data solutions and tools to challenge your input providers and defend the final forecast to senior stakeholders (up to Director). You will lead collaborations with business, product management and engineering teams to drive improvements. . As a Supply Chain Manager, you will take end-to-end ownership of operations with an emphasis on sales & operations planning, logistics optimization, network design, and analysis of operational efficiency.

If you are someone who has shown success in driving large projects, coordinating with cross functional business stakeholders including Business, Operations, Supply Chain, Product, Finance, and more, while pioneering new ways to do things, we would like to talk to you.

Through managing network capacity initiatives and strategic projects, as well as overseeing cross-functional programs, your impact will be visible, ongoing, and contribute directly to our commitment to being the most customer-centric company on earth.

Key job responsibilities

Key job responsibilities

• Develop (as an individual contributor) a new process to streamline forecast consumption, transformation and explain-ability.
• Manage advanced visualization solutions to allow business and tech stakeholders to deep dive and understand the teams forecasts.
• Collaborate with leaders across multiple teams to ensure alignment with business goals and objectives.
• Successfully operate and influence in a cross-functional capacity
• Create, develop, and drive solutions that lead to a richer end to end customer experience
• Execute thorough root cause analysis and deliver results

About the team

The US Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) Sortable team forecasts all inventory flows across the entire Sortable North America Fulfillment network spanning Amazon Robotics and Traditional sortable Fulfillment Centers (FCs).

We manage everything from what Amazon receives to what it ships from our FCs. The S&OP forecast is the starting point of a weekly planning process spanning first, middle mile, last mile and defining the amount of resources (trucks, labor) that need to be secured to ensure we fulfil our customer orders at the highest speed, best quality, lowest cost and carbon intensity possible. We collaborate closely with Supply Chain Optimization Technology (SCOT) teams in North America and internal tech stakeholders across Supply Chain, Transportation, Labor Planning, and Finance teams, reconcile bottom-up and top-down inputs to build forecasts which are accurate and explainable as possible.