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Area Manager, AMZL, Trans Vol, AMZL Intra-Week Volume Planning

Amazon is hiring an Area Manager, AMZL, Trans Vol, AMZL Intra-Week Volume Planning in Barcelona, Spain. Level rates it ; you can apply on Amazon.

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  • Tools and skills the posting cites include operations management, logistics and volume planning.
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Area Manager leading intra-week volume planning, delivery station operations, and process optimization for logistics.

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The Intra-Week Volume Planning (IWP) vision is to provide updated end-to-end aligned forecasts for EU AMZL within the intra-week horizon, bridging short-term and D-0 planning to enable dynamic response to demand and operational changes while minimising cost and maximising customer experience through improved Speed and DEA.
The AMZL Trans Volume Intra-Week Area Manager (AM) ensures positive interactions between Amazon Delivery Stations, third-party companies, Central Operations and delivers on operational objectives. Through the use of tools, management of a team, and coordination with various partners. This AM role requires the skills to decide independently which actions to take for short term decisions and limited supervision for medium long term. These decisions impact the EU AMZL capacity management, Speed and productivity, influencing 24HR, 48HR and Same Day (SD) Out For Delivery (OFD) WAPE.
Area Managers in AMZL Trans Vol will lead a team, serving as problem solver and primary escalation point for the team and other stakeholders. They will also provide periodic updates to Program Managers about status of the operation or any major escalations, maintaining a full understanding of workflow and daily metrics goals, allocate labor and train new associates, drive continuous improvement, and enforce SOP compliance and SLAs response times. This Area Manager will support the Nexus expansion across EU.

Key job responsibilities
- Develop and maintain strong communication processes to ensure smooth and efficient flow of accurate information across Amazon teams
- Providing visibility on actions and reasoning to earn trust from stakeholders.
- Remaining impartial to focus on the bigger picture without bias
- Scale services, tools, and processes that will enable the business growth in Trans Vol footprint, complexity, and geographic dispersion while still maintaining a high bar for the customer experience
- Work closely with the Supply Chain team in areas including Sales and Operations Planning, DSPM an Ops leadership to align and execute the strategy at DS and country level.
- Work with technical and business teams to optimize planning, execution, process improvement and track progress against goals
- Identify, assess and mitigate risks, drive resolution of critical issues, provide escalation management, anticipate and make trade-offs, proposing corrective actions to keep initiatives moving forward
- Maintain and report up to date and accurate KPIs, management reports and analysis (DBR/WBR/Intra-week reports)

Basic qualifications

- Knowledge of Microsoft Excel (macros, pivots, lookups) at an advanced level
- Experience that includes strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and effective communication abilities
- Experience in capacity planning, operations planning, business analysis or similar
- Experience in problem solving and data analytics
- Bachelor's degree or above in Operations Research, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Engineering, Computer Science or related field
- Speak, write, and read fluently in English

Preferred qualifications

- Experience with operations/supply chain
- Experience with SQL and Python scripting

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How we rate this

Area Manager, AMZL, Trans Vol, AMZL Intra-Week Volume Planning at Amazon rates 0 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

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Little AI. AI is not part of the work.

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