Director - Supply Chain - Prime Now - Amazon - Seattle

Job Description

Come join one of the world’s most customer centric companies: we are experiencing growth not only in the number of products & categories we can offer but we are also reaching more customers every day and providing a unique online shopping experience. We are building the next wave of fulfillment with Amazon Prime Now, and are hiring a leader who can solve complex challenges in end to end Supply Chain Management.


The Supply Chain Function

· Vendor Compliance
· S&OP (Sales and Operations Planning)
· Buying support: supporting the purchasing department, by providing tools to support their objectives with regards to inventory management
· Capacity Planning for the Fulfillment Centers in order to monitor their capacity
· Monitor and enhance the Customer experience (all the technical settings, analysis of the failures, addressing them and helping fix them)

Basic Qualifications

• The ideal candidate will bring a strong Supply Chain and Logistics background, having worked within fast moving international companies renowned for their state-of-the-art Supply Chain and Logistics practice. Industry is open: e-commerce, distribution, retail, as well as any other state of the art Supply Chain/Logistics industrial company.
• The candidate has held leadership positions in the Supply Chain function, , having had some experience in Transportation (either managed a transportation department, or is familiar with delivery performance issues, carrier contract rates negotiations…), as well as experience in Planning, Inventory Management, S&OP…
• Demonstrated experience of successfully driving complex, milestone driven projects and carrying out changes across multi-country entities, having a proven track record in improving the Supply Chain: having designed advanced Supply Chain processes, implemented state-of-the-art Supply Chain/Logistics tools…
• Demonstrated experience of having worked in international environments.

Preferred Qualifications

Manager/leadership skills
• A leader, more than a pure technical expert
• Strategic thinking
• Demanding of himself/herself (vocally self-critical) and for others, strives for excellence and sets high standards
• Results-oriented, highly energetic, dynamic individual
• To be hands-on and roll up sleeves, to dive deep into the business, in a lean organization
• Makes things happen
• A change agent. Has conviction
• Has charisma
• Strong leadership skills
• A talented executive, eager to progress within the organization, with high potential to grow further and to evolve towards general management roles

Technical skills
• Proven understanding of complex reporting tools
• At ease with metrics and figures

Soft skills
• Excellent communication skills, at all levels of the organization
• Highly analytical and data driven, able to see the big picture
• Structured, precise, able to deal with complexity
• Fast pace problem solver, sense of urgency, “walks the talk”
• Adaptable, at ease in fast-changing environments

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