Amazon Careers – Continuous Improvement Manager

Job Description:

The Amazon Logistics team is seeking an experienced, hands on and customer obsessed Sr ACES Manager to join the Amazon Customer Excellence System (ACES) Team. The Process Manager will drive process standardization and process improvement across our Last Mile delivery network.

As a member of the Amazon Logistics Spain operations team, you will contribute to the optimization of the European Last Mile delivery and sortation network, enabling operations processes to meet safety, customer experience, quality and cost goals. You, and the team reporting into you, will collaborate on and then execute the roadmap of standard EU process and Standard Work upgrades, supporting implementation of change at the delivery station level. In partnership with EU Process Owners and EU ACES, you will develop mechanisms to surface known best practices. You will own standardization and continuous improvement of processes and management routines within the country, enabling overall EU process alignment.
This position requires deep customer focus, strong self-motivation and exceptional project management skills together with excellent people management skills. It will involve regular communication with project sponsors and requires you to be detail-oriented and comfortable partnering with cross-functional business and technical teams. To be successful in this role, you need to pair strong analytical skills and a data-driven outlook with strong intuition.
Reporting to the Sr. Manager ACES, this role will be based in Spain and involves frequent domestic travel.

Job Responsibilities:

• Program Management, connecting local operations and central supporting teams (Process Engineering, WW ACES, Tech Teams, OPS Integration) and a component of direct support on site in operations delivering improvement on key in station and on road metrics (PPH, DPPH, LAT, PNOV, OTD, FCLM Compliance, Sortation DPMOs, …)
• Contribute to network standardization via best practice sharing with EU counterparts, positively contributing to a culture of standardization (processes and management routines)
• Own deployment of EU Process Standard and EU Standard Work (management routines) upgrades within the country to all delivery stations
  Support results-driven Action Planning coming from Audits
• Own deployment of Continuous Improvement of network standards, in collaboration with EU Program Owners, EU ACES and WW ACES
• Support development and continuous Piloting of Process Improvements and ongoing Benchmarking Initiatives.
• Team management activities in order to develop their skills in the same direction the business changes.

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Operations, Engineering or Logistics (operational Black Belts welcome)
• 5+ years’ experience in a similar process development role, ideally in fast-paced industrial, logistics or production/manufacturing environment
• In depth experience of Distribution and Fulfillment processes
• Excellent Project Management skills
• Motivation and impressive team management skills.
• Demonstrated ability to build strong working relationships with business partners and key stakeholders and the ability to work under pressure in a cross functional organization
• High level of written, verbal and interpersonal skills
• Expertise in Lean Management, Six Sigma and other OE tools
• Advanced data analysis skills and an expert in using supporting tools e.g. Minitab, JMP, MS Excel, MS Access
• MBA, MSc or MEng (Logistics, Supply Chain, Engineering, Mathematics or equivalent)

Job Details:

Company: Amazon

Vacancy Type:  Full Time

Job Location: Seville, Spain

Application Deadline: N/A

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