Come build the future with us. We are looking for a motivated and experienced, customer focused, data driven and results-oriented Inbound Planning Sr Manager to join Supply Chain team in Brazil, to keep delighting our customers by fulfilling products from Amazon and Selling Partners at the fastest possible speed, on-time and at the lowest possible cost.
This role is based in São Paulo Office.
As an Inbound Planning Sr Manager, you will work at the interface between Operations, Business and Amazon's suppliers & Selling Partners to lead complex E2E process for products receiving at Amazon optimizing, capacity, lead-time and cost to improve supply chain efficiency. You will be responsible to drive solutions, tracking metrics, analyzing capacity constraint alternatives, partnering with multiple teams to maximizing product availability, and reduce defects across BR network.
This role will give you a unique view of Amazon systems, process and operations, interacting with multiple teams and solving problems while the engine is running at full speed. It is broad and complex, with meaningful economic impact to the company. The end goal of this role is to answer the question of how we can fulfill more products to our customers in a safer, faster, more efficient, and more cost-effective manner.
Key job responsibilities
This role will work close to the Ops teams (Fulfillment Center) and Stores teams (Retail and FBA) along with multiple other teams to implement process improvements and new technical features to improve forecast accuracy. A successful candidate will be highly analytical, resourceful, customer-focused and used to work with ambiguity. They will have a proven track record in taking on end-to-end ownership and successfully delivering results in a fast-paced and dynamic business environment. In this position you will:
• Forecasting inbound volumes at Fulfillment Center (FC) weekly and daily grain;
• Set up robust processes to improve forecasting accuracy with an objective to minimize cost and maximize operations productivity;
• Utilize exceptional problem-solving and communication skills to influence business, operations and technical audiences;
• Manage Fulfillment Center scheduling process to balance Operations bottom necks and Vendors/Sellers experience;
• Develop process and mechanisms
identifying and implementing available tools/automation;
• Deep dive and analyze key business performance metrics, identify gaps, create plans to drive forecast deviations reductions;
• Develop new metrics and performance indicators to evaluate, audit and improve efficiency of S&OP forecasting;
• Own day-to-day operations execution and implement quick actions to keep adhering to the plan;
• Own regular business reviews with leadership and operational teams to audit ongoing performance against key metrics and program goal;
• Rollout best practices from other geographies/companies to minimize end to end supply chain losses.- Bachelor's Degree;
- Experience using data and metrics to determine and drive improvements;
- Proficiency in data analytics, including SQL, Excel and one or more data visualization software;
- Experience owning program strategy, end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership;
- Experience in supply chain, forecasting, manufacturing, sourcing/procurement, or vendor management experience;
- Fluent in written and verbal English.- Experience in independently setting goals, driving cross-functional teams;
- Experience working cross functionally with tech and non-tech teams;
- Experience defining program requirements and using data and metrics to determine improvements;
- Experience working in or with a complex international supply chain management organization;
- Experience demonstrating problem solving and root cause analysis in a technology environment.
- Retail experience
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