Description
At Amazon, we're working to be the most customer-centric company on earth. To get there, we need exceptionally talented, bright, and passionate people. If you'd like to help us build the place to find and buy anything online, this is your chance to make history. 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 for the first package to leave the site. The vision of the Startup Supply Chain team is to provide excellent support to 40 deployment projects per year, ensuring on-time supply & assembly of about 2000 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 the demand planning team to support demand ordering activities for all fulfillment centers across Europe. The supply chain project manager's job would be to facilitate ordering on time for projects, eliminate surplus caused by ordering, generate high-quality PRs, manage stakeholders, and dive deep into processes to ensure ordering KPI within time and quality metrics.
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 working 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. You'll help us optimize our launch supply chain operation to make our customer experience even better and our business more cost-efficient.
Key Responsibilities:
- Execute on demand planning process and be responsible for end-to-end demand planning for site-specific tail spend materials in ambiguous situations.
- Provide clarity and visibility through alignment on order need by date by horizontally collaborating with field PM, GPLE, Module team, and Inventory team.
- Influence process at the Module deployment level - coordinate materials receive and approve payment.
- Support relevant field teams and external teams such as preconstruction, design, and construction providing order planning status per site/REI.
- Complete deep analysis on the root causes for ordering misses, project deployment delays, and recommend process improvements to meet KPIs.
- Deliver right material on time, aligned with site deployment plan to enable a successful ORT.
- Lead to cost avoidance by prioritizing the transfer from depot and collaborating with IT RAD to ensure usage of existing stocks before the actual order is planned.
- Indirectly coordinate work with new joiners at DPT and contingent resources in ordering execution.
- Directly interact with: Startup PM, Inventory manager, Invoices, Global Procurement Launch & Expansion (GPLE), Global Procurement Organization (GPO), OpsTech IT, and materials suppliers.
- Manage large database, dive deep into complex data collected from various sources (teams), and own end-to-end inventory ordering process.
- Define requirements and identify key milestones for stakeholders involved in central ordering processes.
Travel Requirement:
The role will be based in different locations across Europe with 10% of time traveling either domestically or to other EMEA countries.
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.g., 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
- Knowledge of German, French, Polish, Arabic, Turkish, Afrikaans, and Zulu are considered preferred qualifications.
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