【About OTR Planning Specialist】
Amazon Logistics, Last Mile team seeks a Capacity Planning Manager to support capacity planning for our Delivery Station launch program.
Great candidates think like business owners and drive results; look at a challenge, define what is broken and build the solution on behalf of our customers. Successful Managers have the ability to think both strategically and tactically to optimize for long-term performance, handle multiple priorities, and take independent decisions in an often times ambiguous environment.
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・Department: Last Mile(AMZL)
・Job:Program / Project Management
・Location:Tokyo Office
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Key job responsibilities
Key job responsibilities
• Lead weekly capacity planning and analysis to ensure operational readiness
• Analyze complex data to identify business trends and improvement opportunities
• Create and maintain dashboards for tracking key performance metrics
• Drive end-to-end capacity building initiatives aligned with business goals
• Develop and implement programs to increase operational efficiency
• Partner with cross-functional teams to execute operational improvements
• Present actionable insights and recommendations to stakeholders
• Deep dive into processes to identify and solve operational challenges
• Monitor and evaluate program effectiveness using data-driven metrics
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives and ensure effective implementation
• Transform raw data into clear business insights for decision-making
You'll own the weekly planning horizon, working directly with delivery station, field teams and demand capacity planning to understand capacity constraints and build strategic roadmaps that unlock network capacity in short term and supporting long term plans.
Your focus will be collaborating with delivery channels to analyze regional defects to our yearly plan, creating plans to understand capacity trends and path forward, and identifying opportunities to improve operational capacity through current and alternative channels to meet are forecast target.
Using analytical tools such as excel and quickSight dashboards, you'll review plans and drive insights, transforming complex data into readable and actionable formats for leadership decision-making in area they might not have expert knowledge and to persuade stakeholders.
You'll lead key projects aligned with yearly and quarterly goals, developing new processes and managing stakeholder relationships across the network to ensure successful implementation.
While primarily office-based, the role includes minimal travel throughout the year to visit sites and gain deeper understanding of capacity challenges our team can support to address.
About the team
What We Do
Create data-driven, cost-effective capacity plans
Maintain centralized planning systems
Provide accurate insights for decision-making
Proactively monitor and address forecast trends
Drive continuous process improvements
Leverage automation and analytics
Our Impact
Enhanced planning accuracy
Optimized operational costs
Improved resource efficiency
Strategic business alignment
Data-driven decision making
Our Team
Our diverse team brings together professionals from different nationalities, fostering:
Strong partnerships across functions
Excellence in execution
Proactive, results-driven approach
Working with our team means partnering with professionals dedicated to delivering optimal supply planning solutions while driving business value.- 2+ years of program or project management experience
- 3+ years of Excel (including VBA, pivot tables, array functions, power pivots, etc.)
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent
- Business level English written /spoken
- Proficiency in SQL- 2+ years of supply chain experience
- Business level Japanese written/spoken
- 2+ years of driving process improvements experience
- 2+ years of experience in stakeholder management.
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