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Are you a visionary personality looking for an opportunity to think big and deliver results? Can you work on developing a holistic long-term Transportation Network strategy that will optimally flow millions of items from thousands of vendors to tens of millions of customers? Do you enjoy breaking down and solving complex problems for the benefit of a quickly expanding customer base, focusing first on our Customer and working backwards? Do you want to be part of a newly formed and growing organization that is designing and launching new business models across the world? If so, Amazon Rapid and Rural Logistics is looking for you. The team is looking for a Long Term Planning Manager to design how we will scale across North America.

Candidates for the Network Planning Program Manager role must be effective cross-functional leaders. They must be capable of diving deep into data while simultaneously thinking big, building long-term strategic designs that optimize for cost, coverage, speed, and, most importantly, Customer experience. The candidate must be able to communicate these designs and strategic visions, influencing leadership across retail, transportation operations, technology teams, and senior leadership.

Needed Skills and Abilities:

Influencer: Innovative leader with the ability to identify opportunities and influence organizations to gain support and overcome resistance with data and persuasion.

Leader: Significant experience leading teams to consistently deliver valuable projects.

Doer: Ability to successfully deliver end-to-end operations projects, working through the many obstacles along the way.

Communicator: Ability to communicate expectations and requirements equally well with business and technology teams, and capacity to write well-reasoned and data-driven proposals, performing your own data analysis as necessary.

Problem Solver: Ability to utilize exceptional problem-solving skills to work through difficult challenges.

Results driven: Ability to take stretch goals and wow the internal and external customers with exceptional outcomes

Utilize exceptional problem-solving skills to work through difficult challenges

Adjust network design/topology to account for constraints in the building designs and the real estate market

Introduce strategies to improve routing inputs to improve plan vs actual error

Strategies for smoothing out uneven demand curves to ensure maximum route utilization

Key job responsibilities

· Creates and analyzes topology strategy for future business expansions.

· Owns and understands network design and coverage across business lines.

· Owns ongoing analysis of topology constraints and changes.

· Innovate on behalf of all Amazon customers (Transporters, DSPs).

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Bellevue, WA, USA | Nashville, TN, USA | Pheonix, AZ, USA

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree

• 3+ years of program or project management experience

• 3+ years of defining and implementing process improvement initiatives using data and metrics experience

• Knowledge of Excel (Pivot Tables, VLookUps) at an advanced level and SQL

• Experience using data and metrics to determine and drive improvements

• Experience working cross functionally with tech and non-tech teams

Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ years of driving end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership experience

• 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

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $59,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $142,800/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.