Do you enjoy breaking down and solving complex problems for the benefit of a quickly expanding customer base, focusing first on our customer and working backwards? If so, the Amazon Extra Large (AMXL) supply chain team is looking for an experienced leader with a strong record of achieving results, to build and execute a world class supply chain for large, heavy, and bulky products by working closely with our category, operations, and tech partners across the globe in order to effectively manage volume flows, inventory health, and placement for our fulfillment centers and delivery stations.
Amazon Extra Large (AMXL) is a single-threaded organization with ownership of the end-to-end (E2E) customer experience for large, heavy, and bulky products. AMXL consolidates E2E supply chain: strategy, data analytics, tech, operations, warehousing, order fulfillment, transportation, and delivery. AMXL also offers special handling services such as Room of Choice delivery, Haul-Away, and Installation/Assembly for select items. This role would support AMXL in US & Canada (NA).
You will be responsible for executing the NA AMXL Inventory and Placement strategy. You are an effective communicator, are comfortable in ambiguous situations, and are committed to improving the AMXL network. Additionally, you are adept at analyzing raw data, interpreting findings, and presenting insights to stakeholders to influence business decisions. This is a Supply Chain role, but ability to influence our supply chain tech partners to build and scale our supply chain planning systems, Program Management and Communication (verbal and written) will be critical to success.
Key job responsibilities
- Manage multiple initiatives and projects
- Write strategy documents that clearly communicate supply chain vision to senior leadership
- Work with Retail, Finance and Operations partners towards defining supply chain and - operating models
- Form cross-functional project teams, plan, organize, manage, and execute complex projects across multiple organizations and stakeholders
- Investigate complex models and analyze trade off decisions to ensure the best outcome for our customers
- Formulate and own inventory strategy programs and present findings to senior leadership
- Less than 10% travel required.
About the team
AMXL First Mile (FM) Strategy team is responsible for driving Inventory Placement and Health strategy for the North America AMXL network, which involves optimizing placement of Retail and Fulfilled by Amazon (FBA) inventory as well as balancing the AMXL network for inventory cube versus demand. The team manages inputs into Amazon inventory placement systems/tools for the AMXL network, influence inventory forecasting and buying signals, and partners with Supply Chain Optimization Tech (SCOT) and AMXL Category teams on various inventory/placement and Optimal Inventory Health (OIH) related initiatives.
