Amazon’s Global Supply Chain (GSC) team is looking for a leader to join our team as a Principal Supply Chain Manager, Supply Chain Innovation. The position plays an important role in shaping the future of Amazon's inbound supply chain designs and strategies, ensuring a synchronized view of inventory flow, transportation, storage and fulfillment network, and the capacity and capabilities designed to facilitate them all. This is a high impact role with an opportunity to influence one of the most high visibility and high impact areas.

This Principal Supply Chain Manager will lead a team to establish and drive a large-scale, multi-year roadmap of the distribution center convergence work stream. This person will play a key role in large network transformations, planning and review mechanisms to ensure roadmap and strategy alignments across organizations, define metrics, and use data to manage trade-off decisions.

Additionally, this person will play a key role in influencing the future of storage and distribution center building designs, topology, technical capabilities, and fulfillment capabilities.

The ideal candidate is someone with a track record of driving strategic initiatives, large scale network design transformation, creating repeatable and scalable mechanisms, delivering results under tight timelines, and communicating well both verbally and in writing.

Key job responsibilities
- Lead strategic discussions of Distribution Center convergence work stream with long-term impacts to Amazon's various business units.
- Develop Network design tenets, vision, and roadmap for implementation.
- Build mechanisms to consolidate and inspect inbound metrics; provide new insights to senior leadership to improve their understanding of inbound
- Partner with stakeholders from Supply Chain, Product, Operations, BI, and Finance to evaluate new initiatives; evolve the process into a highly automated and structured approach
- Conduct independent research to identify supply chain inefficiencies, recommend solves, and influence partner teams to prioritize and execute
- Participate in leadership discussions on inbound vision and strategy; influence organizational-level decisions and align roadmaps to deliver the vision

About the team
Supply Chain Innovation (SCI) identify, evaluate, and lead Inbound Supply Chain initiatives, and scale them to improve end to end cost, speed, and network resiliency. For initiatives with high impact and broad scope with no clear line of ownership, we provide leadership to develop, trial, and scale solutions to full network implementation