Description

If you're excited about data driven new program and product launches, this is the role for you

Transportation business forms a key part of Amazon's supply chain, which strives to honour customer promise by delivering packages within the same day or next day. Our Fleet team manages end-to-end lifecycle of assets required for this business. As you can imagine, our assets travel millions of miles every month and positioning of assets at the right locations with optimum cost is critical for operations. One of our key areas of focus is to deploy technology products and drive programs to optimise cost while ensuring availability of assets for the business.

EU Fleet team is looking for an experienced and motivated individual who would be able to own, dive deep into data and help with launch of programs and technology products. Post launch you will also influence improvements based on insights generated. Since many of the technology products are new to the EU business, you are expected to be comfortable with ambiguity and advise the product team on the direction. You will also work on influencing various transportation efficiency and cost related business decisions with data driven insights and statistical models. We strongly believe in a Day 1 mentality and this would demand extreme level of agility and making quick trade-offs between speed and accuracy. We operate in an ever changing environment and expect you to be curious and go beyond your comfort zone to add value. As part of this role, you will get an opportunity to work with amazing senior leaders and wide variety of teams such as product development, analytics, finance and operations who bring in unique perspectives to the solution.

Key job responsibilities

• Own and drive efficiency and cost reduction metric for fleet transportation through program and tech.

• Work across cross-functional team (Finance, Ops, Program, Product) and senior leaders to gather inputs, drive alignment and influence decisions

• Actively conduct speed and accuracy trade-offs based on requirements and advocate ideal approach with justification

• Support financial reporting, justifications and operational cycle budgeting

• Translate relevant business requirements into metrics by writing SQL queries

• Synthesize and visualize large data sets into concise insights for senior leaders and business stakeholders

• Create and maintain data tables relevant for the business metrics, troubleshoot whenever necessary

• Develop statistical models that can guide business decisions

• Go beyond available data to suggest possibilities and work with tech. teams to bridge gaps

About the team

As a Fleet team, our mission is to optimize fleet performance and efficiency through strategic planning, innovative solutions, and seamless coordination, ensuring safe, reliable, and sustainable transportation for Amazon. Our North star is to deliver bar-raising driver and partner experience when operating our fleet at optimal cost. We are a diverse yet close knit team supporting each other whenever required. We work hard, have fun and make history

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

London, GBR

Basic Qualifications

• A degree

• Relevant experience leading cross-functional programmes or projects using project-management methodologies

• Relevant experience in using data or anecdotal evidence to influence business decisions

• Relevant experience leading complex projects with a wide range of stakeholders, including your peers and leadership

• Relevant experience creating dashboards using Excel, SQL, and visualisation tools

• Experience working with the MS Office suite (Word, Excel, Outlook) and/or SQL in a professional environment

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced or master’s degree

• Project-management qualification such as PRINCE2, APM, PMI, or similar

• Understanding of continuous improvement methodologies such as Six Sigma or Lean

• Experience working in an operational environment or with technical teams

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