Logistics Manager, DCC Communities

• High school or equivalent diploma
• 3 years of experience with email, Microsoft Office (or equivalent), online tools, working with database front ends and deriving reports and presentations.
• 3 years of logistics experience.
• 2 years of experience training and managing people and teams.

About AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) helps millions of customers every day achieve their business goals in an ever-changing digital economy. As the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform, we recognize the global need for IT infrastructure services to deliver fast, scalable results. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Be a part of operating the world’s largest cloud computing infrastructure. Amazon Web Services is seeking a bright, motivated, hardworking individual to fill the Data Center Logistics Manager position. This impactful position requires analytical strength, attention to detail, open communication and the ability to work autonomously. The Logistics Manager partners with Infrastructure teams and a wide array of Amazon stakeholders to manage communication, team metrics, and team specific deliverables or milestones. The role demands a strong sense of urgency and the ability to make sound judgement. As a strategist and implementer, the Logistics Manager ensures streamlined activities within the organization that guarantee success for the business, and ceaselessly drives their team to invent and simplify at a local, regional, and potentially cross-regional scale.

As a leader, the most critical aspect of being a Logistics Manager is the successful development and coaching of those under them. An effective Logistics Manager develops strong individuals that know how to make the right decisions, improve organizational culture and to take responsibility when required. Logistics Managers evangelize Accountability and emphasize the importance of this responsibility in creating a strong culture of accountability throughout the entire organization. Logistics Managers ensure their teams understand the importance of their role, their expectations and how their success impacts the bigger picture. Logistics Managers demonstrate good judgment in how and when to escalate without damaging relationships. When confronted with discordant views, Logistics Managers are able to find the best path forward and can influence others to follow that path (build consensus). They independently sets or contributes to setting the vision and direction of a designated area while ensuring optimization of the processes, standards, and functions within that space. They use expertise and high judgment to design the right team structures and mechanisms to meet both short and long-term business goals. Logistics Managers constantly look around corners to proactively mitigate risks before they become roadblocks. To accomplish this, Logistics Managers:

• Think tactically by using expertise and high judgment to establish the right team structure to respond to customer needs and short business goals. They will make sure their team(s) are operating efficiently, meeting SLAs, and delivering results. They create a plans, communicate requirements, negotiate priorities, and define what success looks like across all levels.
• Think strategically by using expertise and high judgment to establish goals in an area where the strategy for may not yet be defined. They set a vision, design a strategy, and achieve consensus on priorities that align with long-term business goals.
• Ensure outcomes are auditable, decisions are data-driven, and work quality is measurable; and will use this to determine where to simplify or extend solutions for the best outcome.
• Ensures team compliance with policies (e.g., information security, data handling, PCI, accessibility, service level agreements, etc.). They determine if appropriate metrics are in place to measure the customer experience, and if not will work to define them.
• Allocate time to set up needed operational metrics, customer intake mechanisms, team training, and documentation (e.g., tutorials, help pages, troubleshooting).
• Prioritize root cause resolution, automation where possible, and other projects that improve customer experience, deliverable quality, and the team environment.

Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious about diverse perspectives. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower employees to feel proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Mentorship & Career Growth
We have a career path for you no matter what stage you’re in when you start here. We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Work/Life Balance
We recognize there’s more to life than work. Creating harmony between your personal and professional life leads to greater happiness, fulfillment and purpose. At AWS, we’re committed to helping our customers achieve their goals and we know we can’t succeed unless our employees achieve theirs. This starts with flexible work hours and arrangements that help our teams celebrate daily wins, at home and in the cloud.

Key job responsibilities
Logistics Operations Leader- It is the manager’s responsibility to guarantee the organization is running smoothly, ensuring our service meets the expectations and needs of our customers and business on a daily, monthly and yearly basis. Some of these operational tasks include:

• Developing performance goals and objectives to achieve customer promise expectations and ensure accuracy and quality
• Building and executing productivity plans by reviewing work forecasts, determining productivity requirements, and partnering with other Logistics Managers to balance labor
• Determine timelines that meet business and customer expectations; ensure they are met
• Partnering with the management team to establish and maintain quality control standards
• Remove roadblocks and obstacles for major initiatives

Logistics Business Leader- It is the manager’s responsibility to act as a Logistics business leader by doing the following:

• The primary point of contact for communication and escalation to both internal and external teams/customers within his/her respective area
• The primary developer of team strategies, vision and goals for their team in alignment with the broader organization
• Ensure operational practices are fully compliant with legislation and policy
• Generate and/or filter information from higher levels of management to their teams
• Creating, managing, and supporting recognition and communication programs

Logistics People Leader- It is the manager’s responsibility to act as a logistics people leader by doing the following:

• Manage and drive staffing plans, schedules, quality initiatives, performance levels and process change initiatives
• The primary facilitator of team coordination and cohesion
• Maintain a strong focus on personal and team growth and development
• A strong supporter of projects outside of day-to-day operations
• Distribute new opportunities fairly amongst the team when available
• Hold regularly scheduled 1:1’s with a focus on personal development
• Ensure accountability and documentation on coaching opportunities
• Opening new requisitions and ensure bar is being raised with new internal hires
• Must be accessible at all times via telephone, text, or similar instant messaging platforms
• Must be willing to participate in management escalations occurring outside normal business hours as needed (including late nite/early morning/overnight situations).

Process Improver- The manager shall be a champion of continuous improvement by:

• Proactively being a driver of process standardization and continuous improvement across the org
• Contributes to operational deployment plans outlining critical and best practice launch activities
• Teaching how to create documents, processes, tools and metrics that reflect outcomes
• Conducts post-deployment evaluations to measure launch effectiveness (PDSA)
• Advise team members on process improvement strategies
• Audits- The manager will conduct monthly audits using a standardized checklist
• Meetings- Lead team meetings. The manager may also represent Logistics locally and/or globally
• Travel- Travel between sites and across the cluster based on the need of the team and business
• Design and implement the risk assessment framework for the AWS transportation program
• Anticipate challenges/obstacles the transportation business would encounter while expanding geographies
• Manage overall compliance of the program
• Research state/ local level fleet and driver regulations and ensure specific SOPs are in place.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Canton, MS, USA

• Ability to troubleshoot out without a road map, transform organizations, as well as break the mold in terms of ways to re-frame and solve problems
• Strong decision-making skills
• Has the essential ability to inspire passion in others
• Ability to operate with significant autonomy and discretion
• Ability to collaborate in a team-centric environment
• Thinks big and has convictions
• Ability to effectively manage relationships across levels, including Senior Leadership
• Ability to prioritize and understand constraints in both customer and business teams
• Ability to establish credibility and work with key internal partners to get things done
• Management and delivery of projects with high levels of performance, reliability, usability and customer satisfaction
• Has a data driven approach with strong analytics skills and the ability to create the right people metrics and implement solutions to drive positive change
• Ability to envision Talent initiatives at a high level, as well as dive deep to implement necessary changes and strategies
• Strong listening, verbal and writing skills are crucial
• Inspired to be always learning, curious and be positive
• Professional traits that are not unique to this position, but necessary for Amazon leaders include:
• -Exhibits excellent judgment
• -Hires and develops great people
• -Has relentlessly high standards
• -Thinks strategically, but stays on top of tactical execution
• -Expects and requires innovation of her/his team

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.