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Are you a visionary personality looking for an opportunity to Think Big and lead Amazon’s Transportation expansion plans? Can you work on developing a holistic long-term Transportation Network strategy that will optimally flow millions of items from thousands of vendors to tens of millions of Customers? Do you enjoy breaking down and solving complex problems for the benefit of a quickly expanding customer base, focusing first on our Customers and working backwards? Do you want to be part of a newly formed and growing organization that is designing and launching new business models across the world? If so, Amazon's Last Mile Transportation Organization is looking for you. The Rural and Super Rural team is looking for a Network Planning Manager to design how Amazon scales across North America.

Candidates for the Network Planning Program Manager role must be effective cross-functional leaders. They must be capable of diving deep into data while simultaneously thinking big, building long-term strategic designs that optimize for cost, coverage, speed, and, most importantly, Customer experience. The candidate must be able to communicate these designs and strategic visions, influencing leadership across retail, operations, engineering, technology, finance, and real estate teams.

Key job responsibilities

• Influencer: Innovative leader with the ability to identify opportunities and influence organizations to gain support and overcome resistance with data and persuasion

• Leader: Significant experience collaborating with people to consistently deliver valuable projects

• Doer: Ability to successfully deliver end-to-end strategy initiatives, working through many obstacles along the way

• Communicator: Ability to communicate expectations and requirements equally well with business and operations teams, and capacity to write well-reasoned and data-driven narratives

• Problem Solver: Ability to utilize exceptional problem-solving skills to work through difficult challenges

• Results driven: Ability to take stretch goals and wow internal and external customers with exceptional outcomes

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Bellevue, WA, USA | Nashville, TN, USA | Phoenix, AZ, USA

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of program or project management experience

• Knowledge of Excel (Pivot Tables, VLookUps) at an advanced level and SQL

• Experience working cross functionally with tech and non-tech teams

• Experience using data and metrics to determine and drive improvements

• 3+ years of experience in related industry (transportation, logistics, supply chain). Experience defining and communicating strategic initiatives with heavy emphasis in data analytics

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 experience defining transportation and logistics expansion plans, transportation or supply chain capacity planning, network design, or network planning

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $59,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $142,800/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.