Program Manager - Supply Chain Strategy And Operations, Inbound Network Planning

Amazon Fba Program Manager

Amazon is receiving millions of products from suppliers at Amazon warehouses nationwide every day in order to provide customers with the largest selection of products in the world. We aim to design a scalable supply chain in response to rapidly increasing inbound volumes and stock products faster and in an appropriate arrangement. This time, we are looking for a program manager who is in charge of developing strategy for scaling inbound services provided by Amazon. The roles also covers operation design, improvement, and cost planning related to inbound services provided by Amazon to retail vendors and FBA sellers.

As the number of Amazon warehouses is increasing year by year in line with growth, the increase in logistics costs for supplier delivery has become one of the major issues for Amazon to maintain a sustainable business environment with suppliers. In order to solve such problems, Amazon has been working on service development and supply chain construction to improve the convenience of supplier delivery.

This position is responsible for designing and improving inbound services for vendors and sellers, and is responsible for promoting the business as a program manager. The position will ensure that you gain an exceptional leadership experience through strategy development for operation scalability and change management with complex requirements in a variety of stakeholders.

The following are details of the roles in this position:

• Cooperation with business teams, service development and construction: In this position, you will work on developing, designing, and improving scalable and user-friendly services while maintaining consistency between delivery rules and warehouse operation flows for several customized inbound services for vendors and sellers.
• Global collaboration, supply chain renewal: In this position, we not only aim to build a supply chain that meets the needs of Japan, but also investigate and grasp trends in newly developed and deployed systems and engineering solutions globally. Through collaboration with each team, we will promote service innovation and build a more scalable supply chain network.
• Project management: In this position, you will clarify business requirements for new services while discussing with the sales management team, and define requirements for building a supply chain. On top of that, we will promote the launch of new service operations while cooperating with each warehouse and transportation operation team, engineering team, and system development team.
• Risk Analysis/Data Analysis: In business, we analyze warehouse functions necessary for the future and propose changes in operations and service specifications. In addition, capacity analysis required for each service is performed, and a roadmap for capacity expansion is created and executed. We analyze risks using past business growth rate trends and future business expansion plans as input, and propose and execute medium- to long-term execution plans based on assumptions about warehouses and transportation operations that will change due to the introduction of technology and the introduction of engineering equipment.

In project promotion, it is expected that they will go through a series of processes of defining issues, designing metrics and KPIs, data analysis, and execution to measure results, and work on solving issues. Also, when a problem occurs, it is necessary to work on problem analysis, accumulate data and facts, and clarify the problem structure.

Department: Supply Chain Management (SCM)/Middle Mile

Location: Tokyo Office