Amazon Freight is looking for an entrepreneurial minded leader to join our growing start up business as a Manager, Amazon Freight Operations. The Manager, Amazon Freight Operations will have experience working in ambiguous environments, knowledge in written and verbal communication skills, experience and success with building, growing, and leading high performing teams capable of defining new processes and ways of operating, and will be able to interface with Senior Leaders at Fortune companies.

In this role, you will be responsible for building and leading a team, overseeing daily operational functions for Amazon Freight’s Enterprise customers, including load building, load planning, scheduling appointments, receiving and responding to customer requests (both email and phone), and building a world-class operations team. The position will partner with sales counterparts to identify our Customer’s needs and build processes that give our team a clear path on how to execute to those expectations. The Manager, Amazon Freight Operations role will partner closely with the Account Management team and routinely communicate and collaborate with stakeholder teams across the Amazon Freight organization to deliver best-in-class experiences for our customers.

This team is in the early stages of developing much of the technology we need to scale and will require knowledge in complex problem solving and process definition in order to implement processes that enable us to meet our Customer’s needs. If you are excited about building a new business, leading a team to deliver best in class service, and influencing how we built scalable technology solutions then this role may be for you.


Key job responsibilities
- Build and lead a team to oversee day-to-day operations for customer accounts, including load planning, shipment tracking, and disruption management
- Partner with sales counterparts to influence the book of business they build and define solutions that meet our Customer’s needs while ensuring your team has a path to successfully operate them
- Partner with and influence operations leaders at enterprise Customers to implement changes to improve operational outcomes that drive efficiency gains or reduce disruptions/defects
- Assign loads and plan, route, and monitor freight movement to provide on-time service and meet customer requirements, including managing freight exceptions and driver ETA adjustments based on pick-up and delivery schedules, and other environmental factors on the road
- Proactively communicate relevant updates to customers and/or internal teams as needed
- Investigate, provide solutions, and resolve customer problems such as order delays, missed pickups, missed deliveries, and damaged freight without always having defined pathways to resolve
- Conduct analysis on operational processes to make recommendations for continuous improvement, determine and measure KPIs, and create, maintain and present customer specific reporting through quarterly face-to-face interactions
- Anticipate, recognize, and deal effectively with existing or potential conflicts at the individual, group, or situation level