Description

Are you excited about solving operational challenges, and want real responsibility and ownership for how your program performs? The Sub Same Day team in AMZL Org is looking for a Principal Planner with a proven record to own part of the delivery program for an exciting new customer offering with faster delivery times.

Please note that this role can be located in London or Luxembourg.

SSD-Direct is at the forefront of last mile and ultra-fast fulfillment/delivery innovation. As Principal Planner on the Delivery team, you’ll have the opportunity to sit at the apex where technology meets operations. We’re looking for a leader capable of diving deep into the operation, formulating key insights, and defining and driving projects to improve our network on behalf of our customers. You will be a key member of the team responsible for collaborating with many partner teams from operations to tech/engineering to find opportunities, and build short term and long term roadmaps to address. The ideal candidate for this role will be highly analytical, creative, motivated, have strong business judgment and a talent for problem solving in a high paced and ambiguous environment.

Responsibilities include:

• Ownership of E2E delivery performance focusing on quality and cost

• Strategic workstream to improve Same Day offering across EU and UK

• Working on out-of-the-box initiatives to holistically improve Speed in EU and UK.

• Responsibility for apprising multiple senior stakeholders (L10+) in the different forums about the program and latest updates.

• Leading Monthly reporting on KPIs and projects in the glidepath.

A successful candidate will demonstrate key skills which will be required:

• Strong analytical and quantitative skills to identify opportunities, estimate improvements, streamline and automate their work.

• Knowledge of operations, continuous improvement and structured problem solving (which may include Lean Six Sigma or Theory of Constraints).

• Ability to earn trust and influence a broad group of stakeholders worldwide to achieve program goals.

• Curiosity and ability to understand complex technical systems and processes.

• Forensic attention to detail.

• Ability to manage multiple, competing priorities simultaneously.

• Ability to work in a nascent, rapidly changing and ambiguous environment.

• Ability to clearly communicate in both written and spoken form to stakeholders at different seniority and in different functions.

• A willingness to roll up your sleeves and do whatever is necessary; the mentality of an owner.

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

London, GBR

Basic Qualifications

• Prior experience working cross functionally with tech and non-tech teams experience

• Prior program or project management experience

• prior experience of managing, analyzing and communicating results to senior leadership experience

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Data Science, or Engineering

• Experience implementing repeatable processes and driving automation or standardization

• Experience defining program requirements and using data and metrics to determine improvements

Preferred Qualifications

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience delivering projects within scope, time, budget and quality

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