As the Zero Waste Process Improvement Specialist- Payments and Data Analysis, US Donations or Recycle, you will be the primary point of contact for payments, purchase orders, and funding approvals. You will monitor incoming vendor disputes to process, monitor escalations or inquiries from vendors and internal teams. You will also identify continuous improvement by diving into recycling and donations data to identify trends and surface opportunities to reduce costs, increase recovery, or invent and simplify our business. You will also have the opportunity to work cross-functionally across external vendors and internal operations, ACES, product, tech and finance teams. Lastly, you will be able to dive deep into data to find new opportunities to escalate roadblocks and risks to both business and external vendors.
Key job responsibilities
• Own and optimize the team's standard work programs including data management/queries, cost optimization (transportation, grants, disposal charges, and sorting fees), waste reporting, and inventory tracking
• Process and track all purchase orders (POs), pre-approved spending requests, invoices, funding requests, ect
• Audit vendor reporting and reconciliation to surface trends and outlier data
• Monitor and report on revenue metrics and track commodity rates
• Handle Accounts Receivable (AR) and Accounts Payable (AP) responsibilities
• Drive process automation and standardization initiatives to improve operational efficiency
• Maintain accurate project tracking and status updates through Asana, ensuring timeline adherence and stakeholder communication
• Be able to rule SQL queries in Hubble to run reports related to ship method, removals or other inquires
A day in the life
You will get the opportunity to work cross-functionally with Site Operations, Finance, Product, Tech organizations. You will also get to work with external vendors, who are business-2-business (B2B) vendors of Amazon. Your work is dynamic in nature, works at scale across the network, and has both standard work and proactive projects. We have big true north goals, where you work daily on finding ways to proactively achieve them. Lastly, you will dive deep into business performance, input and defect metrics for your business to find ways to drive continuous improvement.
About the team
As a member of the US Recycle, Donations, and Zero Waste team, you will get to work in a team environment, where everyone works to support one another to achieve our goals of zero cost of returns and zero waste. While you will have your own goals and objectives, we tend to work collaboratively as necessary and have mechanisms in place to track your projects, goals and business performance.
