DESCRIPTION Amazon's Ops Tech Solutions Supply Chain (OTS-SC) plans, sources, makes and delivers IT equipment necessary to empower Amazon's Worldwide Stores Business. OTS-SC responsibilities include Demand Planning, Supply Planning, Inventory Management, Scheduling, Capital planning, Risk management, Sourcing, Order processing, Warehousing, Assembly, Provisioning, Transportation, Repair, Replacement and Disposal of IT equipment. Within OTS, the Inventory and Asset Management team is responsible for standardizing and streamlining inventory and asset management processes across First, Middle and Last Mile customers as well as internal warehousing and assembly locations.
This role will work cross-functionally with different technical and non-technical stakeholder groups such as Engineering, Deployment, Field and Supply Chain to deep dive existing process opportunities and develop improved process flows for inventory and asset management for both deployed and un-deployed assets. The role will also stand up new processes due to lack of existing process infrastructure and write data-driven strategy papers to get leadership alignment. Additionally, this role will develop metrics to define and measure success of the processes being set up.
This is an exciting opportunity to develop processes from scratch and identify untapped opportunities that will enable OTS to reduce cost, drive simplification and efficiency. This position will work with multiple stakeholders from different teams across the globe, building scalable and sustainable solutions.
Key job responsibilities
- Develop standardized inventory processes for audits, cycle counts and roll-out implementation, monitoring and training in collaboration with stakeholder teams.
- Develop data-driven inventory thresholds for IT spares, dictating what to hold, how much to hold and where to hold across a network of 5000+ facilities.
- Develop inventory compliance mechanism for facilities not in compliance with inventory process and policy.
- Reduce existing excess and obsolete inventory and develop process and system enhancements to prevent future accumulation.
- Develop phased program plans with milestones and deliverables for the achievement of inventory and asset management program objectives.
- Assess process and system gaps and formulate business requirement documents (BRDs) to support system enhancements/integration related.
- Develop automated mechanisms to track and report inventory metrics as part of organization wide business and financial reviews.
- Effectively communicate to senior leadership through white papers, program status updates and monthly/quarterly business review documents.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Austin, TX, USA | Nashville, TN, USA BASIC QUALIFICATIONS - Bachelor's degree in business, engineering, operations, supply chain, transportation logistics
- 4+ years of supply chain, forecasting, manufacturing, sourcing/procurement, or vendor management experience
- 4+ 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
- 3+ years of leading large complex programs experience
- Knowledge of Excel (Pivot Tables, VLookUps) at an advanced level and SQL
