Long Range Planning Manager, AMZL Strategic Planning

Have you ever ordered a product on Amazon and when that box with the smile arrived you wondered how it got to you so fast?
Have you wondered where it came from and how much it cost Amazon to deliver it to you?
If so, the Amazon Logistics, Last Mile team is for you.

【Mission of Amazon Logistics】
Our mission is to build the most efficient and optimal transportation solution on the planet, using our technology, program management and engineering expertise.
We aim to leverage cutting edge technologies, optimization techniques and data analysis, to innovate at a rapid pace setting up a last mile delivery network of the future.
We manage the delivery of tens of millions of products every week to Amazon’s customers, achieving on-time delivery in a cost-effective manner.

【About Long Range Planning Manager】
Amazon Logistics, Last Mile team seeks a Planning Manager to support long range planning for our Delivery Station topology 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.

At Amazon, you'll work alongside the latest AI and GenAI tools that are increasingly woven into how teams operate: from AI-powered capabilities that accelerate decision-making, to Generative AI that helps you focus on work that truly matters. You'll have opportunities and resources to develop AI fluency at your own pace, with continuous learning built into the culture.

More Information (Japanese Only)
・Department: Last Mile(AMZL)
・Job:Project Management
・Location:Tokyo Office

Key job responsibilities
- Owning the cadence for the generation and accuracy of plans to make sure the organization is well prepared for the future
- Dive deep into the process to identify areas of improvement and drive programs to increase accuracy and quality
- Work cross-functionally to ensure that decisions are made and action-ed which will allow our operations to run as effectively as possible
- Challenge the unknown and drive improvement into key areas of our business by driving inventive and simplified solutions
- Drive solution designs for end to end capacity building and have a long term vision leading the program towards meeting yearly and quarterly goals
- Work across multiple teams building capacity plans for new station launches through the ramp period, support end to end monitoring of volume flow and driving network design and execution teams to ensure that volume and recruiting targets are met, participate in the roll-out of global best practice financial models for labor planning, as well as monitor plan vs actual and adjusting benchmark productivity assumptions for all labor planning on the road

About the team
【About Amazon Logistics】
https://www.amazon.jobs/en/teams/amzl

Basic Qualifications

- 3+ years of program or project management experience
- 3+ years of defining and implementing process improvement initiatives using data and metrics experience
- 2+ years of supply chain experience
- Bachelor's degree
- Knowledge of Microsoft Excel at an advanced level, including: pivot tables, macros, index/match, vlookup, VBA, data links, etc.
- Experience defining program requirements and using data and metrics to determine improvements
- Experience in Business English skills, both verbal and written

Preferred Qualifications

- 2+ years of driving process improvements experience
- 2+ years of driving end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership experience
- Experience in a leadership role
- Experience in stakeholder management, dealing with multiple stakeholders at varied levels of the organization
- Experience building processes, project management, and schedules
- Excited about working in a diverse group and contributing to an inclusive culture

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