At Amazon, we're working to create the most customer-centric company on earth. To get there, we need exceptionally talented, bright, and driven leaders to help us deliver great end to end supply chain experiences for our customers. We are looking for a dynamic, customer-obsessed and innovative Sr. Strategic Supply Chain Manager to join the Canada Supply Chain Excellence team. Amazon Canada is a fast-growing business where our business model is evolving with technology and industry trends.
The Sr. Strategic Supply Chain Manager is a proven, well-rounded problem solver who will own and drive strategic projects critical to our business. You demonstrate high ownership to co-ordinate across forecasting and inventory efficiency domains to autonomously push boundaries and launch products or features to optimize Canada's supply chain at scale. In this role you will chart out and execute strategy and plans to optimize Inventory Efficiency through forecasting by partnering with multiple cross functional teams and act as a voice of Canada in critical supply chain decisions.
The ideal candidate is highly analytical, adaptable and enjoys the intellectual challenge associated with learning, launching, and evolving the products that improve our operations. You will be a key player in defining business requirements, project execution, and launch. You must be able to leverage this expertise to articulate and advocate initiatives for supply chain improvement, while working across global retail, supply chain and technology teams. As part of your work, you must have the leadership presence and communication skills to influence the right outcomes from global teams and drive change.
Key job responsibilities
Primary responsibilities will include:
• Effectively work back from the customer to define the ambiguous into meaningful problem statements and solutions
• Build roadmaps that prioritize development based on business/supply chain impact
• Monitoring, analyzing and owning Key Performance Indicators; Identifying and delivering improvement opportunities around inventory efficiency, OIH and defects including presenting insights, themes and trends to Leadership.
Identifying opportunities to improve cost structure and profitability and work with partner teams on execution
• Communicate complex requirements, project status, and tradeoffs, across business, tech and operations stakeholders spanning all organization levels
- Bachelor's degree
- 5+ years of program or project management experience
- 5+ years of supply chain experience
- Experience using data and metrics to drive improvements
- Experience owning program strategy, end-to-end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership
- 4+ years of driving process improvements experience
- Master's degree, or MBA in business, operations, human resources, adult education, organizational development, instructional design or related field
- Usage of generative AI tools to enhance workflow efficiency, with a willingness to learn effective prompting and evaluation practices.
- Ability to recognize opportunities where generative AI could enhance products, workflows, or customer experiences.
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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
USA, WA, Seattle - 121,200.00 - 163,900.00 USD annually