Senior Specialist, Operations Planning, JP First Mile S&OP

At Amazon, we strive to be Earth’s most customer-centric company where people can find and discover anything they want to buy online. The Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) team is looking for planner in the space of Supply Chain, Inventory Planning and Forecasting. The primary role of Sr. Specialist, Ops Planning is to create the S&OP plan which is the important input for resource planing in labor and trucks to address business challenges and create short-term plan with consistency of long team strategy and leads multiple topology projects, working with multiple functions and teams.

アマゾンジャパンは、”Earth’s most customer-centric company (地球上で最もお客様を大切にする企業)” になる事を目指し、お客様が必要とするものをすべてオンラインで購入できることを追求することで成長してきました。 S&OPチームではアマゾンのサプライチェーン、在庫計画および計画作成の領域を担当するするプランナーを求めています。
S&OPプランナーサプライチェーンのプランニングチームを担当し、複数のチームと協業しながらアマゾンのフルフィルメントネットワークの長期計画に沿った中短期の入出荷計画、トポロジー計画を作成し、人員やトラックなどのすべてのリソースの基盤となる重要な数字を作成する。
　
部門・職種紹介
・所属部門:サプライチェーンマネジメント(SCM)・ミドルマイル
・職種:プロジェクトマネジメント
・勤務地:東京オフィス



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Key job responsibilities
The main responsibilities of Sr. Specialist, Ops Planning is to create specific product network forecast for resource planning. This position is also required to automate the planning process to further scale the planning and utilize our resource with securing its accuracy. This position also need to lead the projects to expand inbound and outbound network.

オペレーションプランニングシニアスペシャリストは、アマゾンの特定のプロダクトネットワークの計画を作成します。また本ポジションはその計画の正確性を担保しながらプロセスを自動化し、その業務の幅を広げることも求められます。プロジェクトリードもその責任範囲であり、入出荷のネットワークの拡張に責任を持ちます。

- Create plans to optimize inventory placement, and executes the short-term strategy for JP Operations covers the planning horizon of 13 weeks.
- Own, execute, measure, and support accuracy metrics for multiple network.
- Navigate through ambiguity, managing and coordinating multiple project assignments simultaneously in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment, accepting ownership and accountability of the cross-functional processes and delivering on commitments.
- Work closely with partner teams such as Retail business team, FBA business team, Fulfillment centers (FC), External Fulfillment (EF), Amazon Transport Service (ATS), AMZL, Relay Operation Center (ROC), Finance team and SCOT Team.
- Data/Process analysis to root cause issues within existing processes and recommend improvements
- Writing business documents to communicate ideas/issues and align stakeholders.

- 向こう13週間の特に在庫配置の最適化と倉庫間在庫調整の短期計画策定
- 在庫や計画精度に関するメトリクスの責任者としてビジネスパフォーマンスの計測と改善に向けたアクションの決定
- スピード感が求められる環境下において複数のプロジェクトをオーナーシップをもって同時進行的にリードする
- Retail, FBA, FC/EF, ATS, AMZL, ROC, FinanceやSCOTといった複数のチームに働きかけ、関係性を構築する
- 既存の業務プロセスの課題を定義し、データをもとに要因を分析し、改善をリードする
- ビジネス文書を作成し、関連するステークホルダーに対して課題やアイデアの共有や承認を取り付ける

About the team
The primary mission of the S&OP team is to provide a short to medium term fulfillment plan (up to 13 weeks) for JP Amazon network in order to make labor planning and truck/driver plan using multiple inputs working with a lot of stakeholders. We also lead the sales event such as Prime day and Black Friday in order to secure enough capacity for shipping and inventory to provide the best shopping experience to our customers. Currently 16 members are in S&OP team. All of us work hard but enjoy our job at the same time. All members are so friendly and help each other.

S&OPのミッションはFCの人員計画や配送計画策定のために様々なインプットを駆使して複数のステークホルダーと協業しながら13週間の短中期の計画を策定することです。またPrime dayやBlack Fridayといった大規模なセールイベントを成功させるための計画もS&OPが中心となって作成されます。現在S&OPには14人のメンバーが在籍しており、それぞれが助け合い、楽しみながら働いています。

Basic Qualifications

- 3+ years of working cross functionally with tech and non-tech teams experience
- 3+ years of defining and implementing process improvement initiatives using data and metrics experience
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent
- Knowledge of Microsoft Excel (macros, pivots, lookups) at an advanced level
- Speak, write, and read fluently in Japanese at a business level or above (N1+)

Preferred Qualifications

- 3+ years of driving process improvements experience
- Experience in stakeholder management, dealing with multiple stakeholders at varied levels of the organization
- Experience building processes, project management, and schedules
- Experience defining program requirements and using data and metrics to determine improvements
- Excited about working in a diverse group and contributing to an inclusive culture

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