Are you excited to drive high-visibility, strategic logistics and technology solutions? AMXL Japan is looking for a S&OP (Sales & Operational Planning) planner / program manager who continuously engages across business, technical and operational teams to deliver bigger smiles for our customers.

At Amazon, we're working to be the most customer-centric company on earth. To get there, we need exceptionally talented, bright, and driven people. Amazon is one of the most recognizable brand names in the world and we distribute millions of products each year to our loyal customers. Amazon has great opportunities to pursue a career as a leader in Operations Planning & Management. We know that learning through experience is what transforms talented people into great leaders. Our roles are designed to accelerate the growth of leaders through challenging field experiences that stretch individual capability. Our Operations environment presents the candidates with great challenges in dealing with front line management, and driving scalable and continuous improvements across our Fulfillment Centers, Supply Chain & Transportation execution teams.

As a S&OP planner, you will be the subject matter expert in gathering and forecasting demand from customers, running capacity analysis, running simulation and scenarios for leadership, and synchronizing our supply and demand in order to meet our customer's needs. You will be a part of the S&OP team, leading small and medium term planning, engaging with leadership on getting it approved, and reviewing the plan vs actuals, highlighting and mitigating risks on the way to see your work impact real world business and end customer satisfaction.

More Information
・Department: Last Mile(AMZL)
・Job:Program / Project Management
・Location:Tokyo Office

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Key job responsibilities
- Manage the short and medium term capacity and peak planning for the AMXL JP network
- Work in partnership with operations team to set optimal network plans and transportation choices to meet on-time delivery goals
- Define a near term vision and plan to deliver it driving continuous delivery customer experience improvement by collaborating with stakeholders on design of new solutions that enhance business performance and achieve established quality and efficiency goals
- Inspect demand forecasts, capacity plans critically and challenge assumptions from business teams
- Plan, develop, implement and evaluate processes for capacity management from inventory to the customers home
- Understand and manage supply chain risks to minimize on-time delivery impact
- Support critical relationships with internal and external business partners
- Interface with external carriers and internal carrier managers to improve capacity planning accuracy
- Provide high quality inputs and garner alignment with finance and leadership teams using a combination of in-person meetings, well written data backed documents, detailed business models or presentations
- Identify and evaluate potential risks/obstacles within both internal and external business environment with minimal direction


A day in the life
You attend daily business reviews and understand what's happening to key network metrics. You spend time with strategy & ops teams to find ways to meet customer expectations. You write quality documents that seek to plan, inform & align internal stakeholders. You challenge the status quo and drive data based decision making within your team. You take business trips within and outside Japan as required to build your skills and network or test your plans and assumptions. Additionally, you are always ready to jump in and take charge when problems and challenges emerge.

About the team
AMXL JP team is a single threaded organization that owns Amazon's end-to-end Heavy & Bulky (H&B) logistics network with our willing and equally customer obsessed partners, offering shipping, service & support for consumers and companies in a safe, reliable, seamless, standardized, and sustainable way that surprises and delights our customers. Our delivery partners are experienced in H&B deliveries, providing special handling services such as Room of Choice Delivery, Installation/Assembly and Recycling/Haul-Away.

Our team is made up of a diverse group of individuals across operations, supply chain, tech, finance, planning, customer experience, business intelligence and program management that work closely and collaboratively across Amazon to constantly improve and scale our operations, always insisting on the highest standards and obsessing over delivering bigger smiles for our customers.