Transportation Specialist - Transportation, NOC Outbound

Amazon Inc.; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Inc. is seeking a Trans Ops Specialist for the NOC Outbound team. The role supports Transportation Execution across multiple geographies and ensures timely pickup and delivery of freight from vendors to Amazon fulfillment centers.

Based in Dalian, China, the position collaborates with Carriers, Hubs, and Warehouses and requires strong data skills and proficiency in Japanese. You will analyze trends, escalate issues, and present findings in review forums.

Qualifications

• Excellent communication with internal and external stakeholders.
• Ability to pull data from multiple databases and perform ad hoc reporting.
• Strong understanding of how data informs business decisions.

Responsibilities

• Communicate with external customers (Carriers, Vendors) and internal teams (Retail, Finance, Software Support, Fulfillment Centers).
• Pull data from multiple databases (Excel, Access, SQL) and perform ad hoc reporting.
• Develop and understand performance metrics to drive business results.
• Scope business and functional requirements for the tech teams who build NOC tools.
• Understand data trends and make data-driven decisions.

Skills

Communication

Problem solving

Stakeholder management

Languages (Japanese)

Tools

Excel

SQL

Access

Job description

Transportation Specialist - Transportation, NOC Outbound

NOC (Network Operations 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, NOC steps in to resolve the issue and keeps all the stakeholders informed on the proceedings. Along with this tactical problem solving NOC 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, NOC 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.

Purview of a Trans Ops Specialist

A Trans Ops Specialist at NOC facilitates flow of information between different stakeholders (Trans Carriers/Hubs/Warehouses) and resolves any potential issues that impacts customer experience and business continuity. This role is a part of the centralized Network Operations Centre (NOC) org part of Amazon India. This role is based in Dalian, China and will be required to work for Amazon Japan.

Key job responsibilities

• 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 NOC.
• 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 escallate 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. Languages proficiency (mandatory) – Japanese.

Providing real-time customer experience by working in 24*7 operating environment (INCLUDING NIGHT SHIFT)

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with end-to-end ownership of major project deliverables

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