Transportation Planning Analyst, Amazon Transportation Services

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The Supply Planning & Optimization team is seeking a Transportation Planning Analyst to support and analyze daily supply program execution related data in Amazon’s growing middle mile network. This role is an exciting opportunity to join a team in a dynamic agile field for Amazon. This position will query, audit, and analyze data, drive process improvements, standardize current processes, and eliminate the root cause of defects cross functional supplier execution specifically associated with the Variable Supply Product Line. The Transportation Planning Analyst will work directly with internal and external stakeholders to remove barriers and streamline operations. Open to recent college graduates.

Key job responsibilities

• Systematically intake, escalate, and triage execution related problems to the relevant owners and teams and follow through on the resolutions to ensure they are delivered.
  
• Audit documentation submitted by input owners to ensure it complies with standard operating procedures and adheres to specification limits.
  
• Pull data from numerous databases (using Excel, SQL, or other data management systems) to perform reporting and analysis.
  
• Use data analysis to determine impacts from supplier capacity performance and communicate clearly to relevant stakeholders.
  
• Update Weekly Business Review (WBR) root cause analysis and recommended actions.
  
• Support Supply Planning & Optimization Team's internal stakeholders by acting as a liaison between them and Supply Planning Input.
  

A day in the life

Here are a list of some of the weekly activities in the Transportation Planning Specialists standard work.

• Input actuals performance to plan analysis to create the weekly business review callouts
  
• Facilitate Monday Weekly Business Review (attend applicable intraweek Product calls)
  
• Finalize the Weekly Business Review Bridge and forward looking Inputs Email
  
• Create equipment type publish insights
  
• Equipment Type Strategy Forward analysis for upcoming financial planning process
  
• Finalize and send Publish Email
  
• Analytics: Projects Updates and Work
  
• Dashboard clean up/creation/optimization for increased understanding
  

About the team

Amazon Transportation Services is pioneering new products, services, and technologies within our transportation network. We are building a platform and capability to ensure that our capacity plans enable our supply partners to deliver as quickly, accurately, and cost effectively as possible. To meet this goal, we are continually striving to innovate and provide best in class end to end global supply strategy. This is a great opportunity for a highly motivated individual looking to innovate and execute on the above strategy and accurate planning will be critical to serving our customers. Come join us as our Transportation Planning Analyst.

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• High school or equivalent diploma
  
• Knowledge of Excel at an intermediate level (e.g., pivot tables & charts, multiple criteria lookups, nested logical/IF formulas, data cleansing, array formulas, etc.)
  
• Experience managing large data sets and utilizing to drive performance and process improvements
  

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• 1+ years of program management, logistics, operations, supply chain, transportation, or equivalent experience
  
• 1+ years of management experience
  
• Bachelor's degree
  
• Experience with SQL
  

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $46,600/year in our lowest geographic market up to $74,800/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.