Supply Chain Manager II, Amazon Grocery Logistics

Amazon is hiring a Supply Chain Manager II, Amazon Grocery Logistics in Tokyo, Japan. Level rates it ; you can apply on Amazon.

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Manage short and mid-term volume planning and S&OP processes for Amazon Grocery Logistics in Japan.

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The Japan Perishable Supply Chain (PSC) team is looking for a talented Supply Chain Manager who excels in hypothetical thinking and data driven decision making. In this position, you will play an instrumental role in delivering optimal capacity management as our Grocery business grows and scales across Japan.
You will be part of a team dedicated to quality, customer experience, and efficiency; supporting 1P and 3P operations with stakeholders both domestically here in Japan, as well as Worldwide Grocery. Your primary deliverable will be Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP), which is a short/mid-term volume planning. S&OP is a critical business/operation elements, which forecasts upcoming shipment/arrival volume based on diving deep into multiple historical data points, and driving discussion and alignment with multiple stakeholders. You will need to execute optimal forecast planning considering business growth and capacity constraint across storage space in warehouse to labor resources.
Additionally, you will support with transportation network design, working collaboratively to deliver the right capacity and cost to enable overall profitability.
Your S&OP responsibilities will be a continuous activity, where uncertainty in new and growing business lines will require you to remain agile. Your decisions will have network wide impact, driving cost efficiency and supporting capacity across our Japan Grocery operations. Furthermore, in order to realize an optimal inventory plan that enables maximizing business growth under capacity constraints, the optimization of inbound flow from vendors/other warehouses is also an important mission in the role; and allowing you to partner within our Core and Logistics operations.
In addition, it is also expected that best practices will be found in cooperation with overseas teams for S&OP planning/methodology and inbound flow. You will contribute efficient process design as internet supermarket in worldwide. Even in an ambiguous environment, the role is expected to have the ability to think strategically and tactically, handle multiple priorities and make decisions for optimal capacity planning in view of business growth and costs.

Key job responsibilities
• Operate the volume planning for the Distribution and Fulfillment Centers with weekly cadence.
• Create a plan of the 7-21 day and 13-week horizon by managing inputs from business plans, operational constraints, and labor plans; and maintain all outputs accurate and updated.
• Support 1P and 3P business and operations team on planning and S&OP accuracy
• With giving detailed insight into variances versus planned volumes, execute countermeasures to resolve the variances, and also continuously improve forecasting accuracy.
• Realize the optimal inventory volume and arrival form and then optimize the workload in FC operations.
Reduce operation cost by analyzing data and the drivers of forecast misses/opportunities to provide optimized operation.
• Collaborate with Supply Chain and Tech teams in North America and Continental EU & United Kingdom to establish best practices, implement new tools/systems, and build end to end operation processes for the growth of the business.
• Projects ownership related to supply chain and forecasting accuracy improvement in collaboration with business and operations teams.

About the team
Perishable Grocery is an important growth area for Amazon, and our team is a critical component to deliver this growth in Japan. We support the overall supply chain, inclusive of transportation, third party external fulfillment service management, operations planning, and more - without which we could not deliver the quality and freshness of product needed to earn the trust of our customers.

Basic qualifications

- 3+ years of supply chain experience
- 3+ years of working cross functionally with tech and non-tech teams experience
- 3+ years of defining and implementing process improvement initiatives using data and metrics experience
- Bachelor's degree
- Knowledge of Excel (Pivot Tables, VLookUps) at an advanced level and SQL
- Business-level Japanese & English language proficiency in reading, writing, and meetings

Preferred qualifications

- 3+ years of driving end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership experience
- 3+ years of driving process improvements experience
- Experience in stakeholder management, dealing with multiple stakeholders at varied levels of the organization
- Experience building processes, project management, and schedules
- 3+ years of data visualization and reports tools experience

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Key facts

Supply Chain Manager II, Amazon Grocery Logistics is an open job at Amazon.
Level rates this role AI Level 1 of 4: Little AI.
The role is based in JP, 13, Tokyo.
The job was posted on October 27, 2026.
Seniority: mid.
Applications are handled by Amazon. Apply on Amazon

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