Descripción de la oferta
Strategic Supply Chain Mgr - 12 months, EU Other Hardlines
Join Amazon’s largest Product Family in multiple top locations and impact our supply chain across Europe. As a Hardlines Strategic Supply Chain Manager you will build an in depth understanding of Amazon's commercial frameworks, operational processes and programs. Underpinned by this, you will work with our largest vendors to drive supply chain collaboration and improve the strategic operations set up. Your goal will be to maximize product availability for our customers while reducing our overall cost and time to serve.
Key Job Responsibilities
Optimize key goals through effective program management. The goals include product availability, helping vendors deliver to Amazon’s standards, ensuring vendors accept our returns or pitching Supply Chain Programs to reduce cost.
Leverage data to investigate and deliver improvements in key supply chain metrics.
Identify and develop scalable solutions to key operational challenges, both internal and external with Vendors.
Own and manage multiple projects, working across central program teams and category teams to improve EU Hardlines supply chain/operations from development through to delivery.
Frequently partner with Category teams to contribute to the development of the long-term strategy for category availability and inventory management.
A Day in the Life
At one of our retail offices in London, Madrid, Milan, Munich or Paris you begin your day with a coffee or tea with colleagues. Approximately 70% of your time is spent working with our most important vendors by aligning with your internal partners in vendor management and central tech teams before reaching out to the vendors themselves to discuss improvement opportunities. Roughly 30% of your time is devoted to moving forward on projects you own or contributing to that will create lasting impact across large cohorts of our vendor base and supply chain.
About the Team
Our culture focuses on work‑life balance and wellbeing, producing scalable improvements, and creating experts who feel true ownership for their areas of responsibility. Our Strategic Supply Chain Managers, spread across our EU retail locations, own the full vendor facing supply chain. Improving customer availability remains at the core of the role, with a focus on delivering upside via long‑term strategic engagement with our vendor base by defining end‑to‑end supply chain solutions which optimize the processing, delivery and receipt of goods. They also improve the customer experience by leveraging vendor and business knowledge to support continuous improvement of our inventory management systems and optimizing inputs to these systems.
Qualifications
University degree in engineering, mathematics, finance, business or related areas.
2‑4 years of work experience, of which at least 2 years’ experience analyzing and improving the performance of a business.
Must have EU Amazon International Stores (AIS) experience.
Project and program management experience.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills, ability to simplify complex topics for broad audiences.
Demonstrable data‑driven decision making.
Practical experience of Excel.
Proven ability to work in international cross‑functional teams.
Hands‑on, results‑oriented mentality, combined with the ability to meet tight deadlines.
Experience in one or more of: online retail, finance operations, supply chain operations.
Experience in leading large scale projects and improvements.
Experience collaborating with tech teams and building tech products.
Practical experience of AI.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. We protect your privacy and the security of your data as a longstanding top priority.
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