Transportation Specialist

Amazon; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Dev Center India - Hyderabad is seeking an analyst to support Transportation Operation Center (TOC) across the India geography. The role involves data extraction, ad hoc reporting, and performance metrics to drive logistics efficiency, with exposure to SQL databases and external/internal stakeholder communication.

The candidate should be comfortable in a fast-paced, 24x7 environment and able to translate data trends into actionable insights for improving transportation execution.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a quantitative/technical field such as computer science, engineering, statistics.
• Experience with Excel.
• Experience with SQL.

Responsibilities

• Communicate with external customers (Carriers, Vendors/Suppliers) and internal customers (Retail, Finance, Software Support, Fulfillment Centers).
• Ability to pull data from numerous databases (using Excel, Access, SQL and/or other data management systems) and perform ad hoc reporting and analysis.
• Develop and understand performance metrics to drive business results.
• Scope out business and functional requirements for Amazon technology teams.
• Understand business impact of trends and make data-driven decisions.
• Elevate problems or variances to owners and ensure resolutions are delivered.
• Work within various time constraints to meet critical business needs and present findings.
• Produce real-time customer experience in a 24x7 operating environment.

Skills

Excel

Data analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in a quantitative/technical field such as computer science, engineering, statistics

Tools

SQL

Job description

DESCRIPTION

TOC (Transportation Operation Center) is the central command and control center for ‘Transportation Execution’ across the Amazon Supply Chain network supporting multiple geographies like NA, India and EU. It ensures hassle free, timely pick-up and delivery of freight from vendors to Amazon fulfillment centers (FC) and from Amazon FCs to carrier hubs. In case of any exceptions, TOC steps in to resolve the issue and keeps all the stakeholders informed on the proceedings. Along with this tactical problem solving TOC is also charged with understanding trends in network exceptions and then automating processes or proposing process changes to streamline operations. This second aspect involves network monitoring and significant analysis of network data. Overall, TOC plays a critical role in ensuring the smooth functioning of Amazon transportation and thereby has a direct impact on Amazon’s ability to serve its customers on time.

Responsibilities Include, But Are Not Limited To:

• Communication with external customers (Carriers, Vendors/Suppliers) and internal customers (Retail, Finance, Software Support, Fulfillment Centers)
• Ability to pull data from numerous databases (using Excel, Access, SQL and/or other data management systems) and to perform ad hoc reporting and analysis as needed is a plus.
• Develop and/or understand performance metrics to assist with driving business results.
• Ability to scope out business and functional requirements for the Amazon technology teams who create and enhance the software systems and tools are used by TOC.
• Must be able to quickly understand the business impact of the trends and make decisions that make sense based on available data.
• Must be able to systematically elevate problems or variance in the information and data to the relevant owners and teams and follow through on the resolutions to ensure they are delivered.
• Work within various time constraints to meet critical business needs, while measuring and identifying activities performed.
• Excellent communication, both verbal and written as one may be required to create a narrative outlining weekly findings and the variances to goals, and present these finding in a review forum.
• Providing real-time customer experience by working in 24*7 operating environment.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree in a quantitative/technical field such as computer science, engineering, statistics
• Experience with Excel

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience with SQL

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Company - Amazon Dev Center India - Hyderabad

Job ID: A10394495