Job Description
DESCRIPTION
Do you want to be part of an innovative team who aim to build amazing technologies that will automate our Delivery Stations and improve safety for our associates?
Our team vision is to automate the operational processes paths within our delivery stations (DS) over the next few years. We partner with Engineering and other cross function teams to develop, test and deploy technologies that are innovative and financially feasible while improving productivity and reducing dependency on manual labor and improving safety.
Key job responsibilities
Partner with Engineering team to explore new technologies to automate North America (NA ) Amazon Logistics (AMZL) delivery stations and lead the Supply Chain effort including Suppliers sourcing, selection, qualification, cost negotiation and contractual coverage from technology development to future scaling.
Influence the vision and detailed requirements for automated solutions to enable our business to automate the delivery stations within the established Return on Investment (ROI)
Identify, develop and implement Supply Chain strategy, works with cross-functional teams to ensure that strategies are executed, and effectively communicates initiatives to gain customer and supplier buy-in and to drive them towards anticipated outcomes
Builds mechanisms and leads initiatives to ensure that suppliers’ costs don’t extend beyond established goals. Constantly seeks ways to reduce spending and demonstrates the ability to advise business owners on whether a given purchase is reasonable and justified
Determines which suppliers should be positioned for long-term contracts based on the suppliers’ overall value to the business and establishes and implements standards for partnering with these suppliers
Establishes supplier diversity for new technology opportunities and expands current supplier selection options accordingly.
A day in the life
Our team is responsible for automating the different process paths of delivery stations and also responsible for developing the scale up strategies for future.
Main stakeholders are WW Eng innovation and NA AMZL Eng, and other stakeholders AMZL Start up team (planning, execution), Under the Road (UTR) tech, Safety, AMZL Reliability and Maintenance Engineering (RME), deployment. We also work very closely with finance team on building the cost model ROI based on technology performance assumptions.
About the team
Our team has a diverse background and skills, we trust each other and strive to make a positive impact. Our day to day job is to innovate and continuously looking for opportunities to improve cost, performance and our customers experience.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's degree in supply chain management, operations, engineering, analytics or related field
- 5+ years of relevant strategic sourcing and category management in indirect categories such as professional services, support or maintenance spend, supply chain, forecasting, manufacturing, sourcing/procurement, or vendor management experience
- 5+ years of data analysis experience
- Knowledge of Excel at an intermediate level (e.g., pivot tables & charts, multiple criteria lookups, nested logical/IF formulas, data cleansing, array formulas, etc.)
- 3+ years of experience in NPD / NPI
Job Tags
Full time, Contract work,