At Amazon, we're working to be the most customer-centric company on earth. To get there, we need exceptionally talented, bright, and passionate people. If you'd like to help us build the place to find and buy anything online, this is your chance to make history.

The international Startup Supply Chain team is looking for a motivated Inventory Manager professional to run multiple deployment warehouses in Mexico & Brazil in order to support our Startup team in launching new sites and expanding Amazon network. The role of Startup Inventory Manager is to coordinate around 5 deployment project per year, performance manage local Inventory Managers, drive cross-functional strategic initiatives to improve inventory management. The role requires candidates to be able to deep dive into the system data and identify opportunities and risk. Building strong relationships with our suppliers is key part of this role as well as ability to work with multiple stakeholders involved in each of the projects.

Key job responsibilities
• Drive cross-functional strategic initiatives to improve supply chain efficiency and overall cost structure.
• lead and execute all Supply chain tasks on the projects from (Bill of Materials) BoM definition to ordering and inventory control.
• Drive complex business analysis to identify business opportunities to improve internal and external processes
• Work cross functionally to identify and apply best practices and continuous process improvements
• Act as point of escalation for vendor management and contractors
• Manage supplier’s operational excellence through data driven metrics
• Automate dashboard and metric reporting
• Provide scalable solutions for specific warehousing and inventory issues
• Set project requirements and drive agendas across internal and external teams
• Act as the supply chain interface with the whole project team internally.
• Able to foresee risks, escalate them and influence the stakeholders to develop and execute the mitigation plans
• Responsible to get 100% right materials on time to enable the sites readiness for launch
• Own the supply chain KPIs to deliver the right material on time in full quantity

A day in the life
The SC Program Manager interacts on daily basis with procurement teams, execution project manager, material suppliers and installation vendors to understand the material needs, track the supply chain operation and escalate risks. The candidate should be able to analyze large sets of data to get the right information and make the right decisions on material management between different sites to be launched internationally particularly in Mexico and Brazil.

About the team
With more and more customers to be served in emerging countries i.e. Mexico & Brazil, Amazon is opening new Fulfilment Centres every year. The international Startup Supply Chain Team is responsible for getting these buildings ready with everything in place ready for the first package to leave the site. The vision of Startup Supply Chain team is to manage the material from bill of material definition to the deployment completion, ensuring on time supply & assembly of about 4.000 items per project, from over 500 suppliers in 15 countries across EMEA & Emerging Countries.