Strategic Network Design & Optimization Lead

Amazon; Factoria (WA); On-site; USD 115,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon is seeking a Supply Chain Manager III, Network Design, Planning & Engineering in Bellevue, WA to own the strategic design and optimization of Amazon's hub network. You will lead cross-functional programs, build scalable frameworks, and use analytics to improve hub utilization and middle-mile connectivity.

This high-visibility role collaborates with Operations, Data Science, Finance and Product, delivering year-round improvements that reduce cost and speed up package movement for millions

Qualifications

• 5+ years of program or project management experience.
• 5+ years of supply chain experience.
• Experience using data and metrics to determine and drive improvements.
• Experience owning program strategy, end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership.
• Bachelor's degree in supply chain, business, engineering, finance or related technical or quantitative field.

Responsibilities

• Drive the evolution of the middle mile network strategy by continuously evaluating emerging demand patterns, node launches, and program expansions to inform where and how connectivity should scale.
• Establish and maintain design principles that guide decision-making when competing priorities arise, codifying how the network balances speed, cost, and resilience in practice.
• Simulate and validate proposed network configurations against real-world variability, ensuring design choices are timed well to support peak and non-peak periods.
• Build and maintain visibility mechanisms that surface network performance insights to leadership, enabling data-driven prioritization and rapid course correction on a recurring cadence.
• Own the operational response framework for network disruptions, proactively identifying vulnerability points and deploying contingency routing to preserve customer promise during degraded conditions.
• Partner across organizations to build consensus on capital allocation, capacity planning, and design trade-offs that require multi-team commitment and shared accountability.
• Ideate and sequence initiatives that simplify middle mile complexity, reducing unnecessary handoffs while improving sortation efficiency.

Skills

Program management

Supply chain experience

Data-driven improvements

End-to-end delivery

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree (supply chain, business, engineering, finance or related)

Master's degree

Tools

SQL

Excel

Job description

Amazon is seeking a Supply Chain Manager III, Network Design, Planning & Engineering in Bellevue, WA to own the strategic design and optimization of Amazon's hub network. You will lead cross-functional programs, build scalable frameworks, and use analytics to improve hub utilization and middle-mile connectivity.

This high-visibility role collaborates with Operations, Data Science, Finance and Product, delivering year-round improvements that reduce cost and speed up package movement for millions