Operational Excellence Manager, Amazon Logistics - #1693297

Job ID: 2969733 | Amazon Commercial Services Pty Ltd

An exciting new role has become available for a Operational Excellence Manager to join the ACES (Amazon Customer Excellence Systems) team. Reporting to the Regional ACES Manager, you will drive process excellence within our Amazon Last Mile Delivery business. You will contribute to the optimisation of our Delivery Station operations, providing teams with knowledge and tools to improve performance.

This is a highly collaborative role where you will work to solve complex problems with simple and practical solutions by developing a deep knowledge of the operation processes. You will creating effective communication plans to provide visibility to all impacted teams to enable overall process alignment.

Please note this role will be based in a delivery station (Brisbane, QLD) and will own transport to the delivery station and it will require travel within Australia. You will need to be comfortable working across non-traditional shift patterns which include nights and weekends.

You will have experience in a similar role in Continuous Improvement. Your ability to influence through change, while using data to drive decisions, will ensure your success in this role.

Key job responsibilities
As firsthand contact for station management regarding process improvements and benchmarking, you will work on effective change processes and contribute to network standardization via best practice sharing. You are in charge of monitoring the logistics and delivery success through set in station and on road performance indicators. You will set up actions plans and execute them to drive current performance to benchmark rates.
In this position, you are a key driver for successful order execution thus positively influence our customer satisfaction.
- Contribute to audit initiatives and support results-driven action planning
- Contribute to deployment of Process Standard implementations and upgrades within the delivery station partnering with station management and several stakeholders
- Support development and continuous piloting of process improvements and ongoing benchmarking initiatives
- Ensure station management is understanding benchmark rates and is trained in technical configurations to drive accurate reporting and productivity boosts
- During peak time, you will have the responsibility for the day to day management of a Delivery Station, providing leadership to Operations Supervisors, Operations Assistants and Delivery Service Providers, managing external agency relationships and performance.

About the team
ACES UTR team exists to add value for our operational partners.

- Bachelor's degree.
- 3+ years of warehousing or transportation management experience.
- 3+ years of working cross functionally with tech and non-tech teams experience.
- 3+ years of defining and implementing process improvement initiatives using data and metrics experience.
- Expertise in Lean Management, Six Sigma and other OE tools.
- Knowledge of Excel (Advance) and SQL (Intermediate).

- Experience defining program requirements and using data and metrics to determine improvements.
- Data analysis skills.

Acknowledgement of country:
In the spirit of reconciliation Amazon acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.

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