Production Planning Analyst, EU Production Planning Team
Posted 14 hours 1 minute ago by Amazon
Have you ever ordered a product on Amazon and wondered how it got delivered to you so fast?
In the Amazon EU Supply Chain team, we are passionate about driving innovation on behalf of our customers to improve product availability and speed while reducing costs and carbon emissions. This role will give you a unique view into Amazon systems, processes, and operations, allowing you to collaborate with planning, operations, and technical teams. If you are an advocate for understanding complexity in detail to drive improvements at scale, with a proven track record of analyzing and diving deep into complex data to generate insights and business recommendations, we'd like to talk to you. We value diverse perspectives and experiences, as they contribute to innovative solutions for our global customer base.
At Amazon, delivering great experiences for our customers is top priority. The Production Planning Team ensures Amazon's Fulfillment Centers have robust and cost optimal staffing plans while constantly innovating in a number of areas aimed at improving our customers' experience. You will work with cross-functional stakeholders and data sources to recommend daily/weekly staffing plans and shift structures for all of our European Fulfillment Centers. We are looking for a passionate, analytical and technical person who will relentlessly dive deep, improving the accuracy and efficiency of the planning process.
Key job responsibilities
Responsibilities include:
Interacting with and influencing business and finance stakeholders to gather, calculate and present data-backed plans.
Supporting with labor metrics forecasting analyzing trends to drive decision making.
Be responsible for the Production Planning as well as cost and service optimization.
Building short/medium and long term operational plans to minimize variable costs associated with staffing.
Analyzing and solving business problems with focus on understanding data deviations, their root causes, and driving forward-looking opportunities
Communicating complex analysis and insights to stakeholders and business leaders, both verbally and in writing.
The position involves remote communication via Amazon Technologies with colleagues and teams in EU/worldwide
Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Supply Chain, or related field.
Experience partnering in cross-functional environments.
Experience using Excel.
Experience defining program requirements and using data and metrics to make improvements.
Strong problem-solving skills.
Experience with VBA/SQL
Operations Research or Supply Chain Planning experience.
Understanding of Distribution and Manufacturing Resource Planning.
Basic/Working knowledge of Six Sigma tools and Lean techniques preferred.
Ability to develop new ideas and creative solutions.
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