Senior Strategic Supply Chain Manager

Amazon Business; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 300 000 - 400 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global e-commerce company in Cape Town is seeking a Sr. Strategic Supply Chain Manager to lead inventory management strategies and improve customer experience. The ideal candidate will possess strong analytical skills and experience in data-driven decision-making, along with the ability to manage operational improvements across supply chain processes. This position offers an exciting opportunity to play a pivotal role in optimizing logistics and driving efficiencies.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional or military experience.
• Experience working with complex data sets.
• Experience delivering results by partnering with and influencing others.

Responsibilities

• Identify and deliver operational improvement opportunities around buying and demand planning.
• Monitor opportunities to improve key supply chain metrics.
• Share supply chain insights for Senior Leadership reviews.
• Optimize supply chain cost structure and profitability through vendor engagement.

Skills

Data extraction

Analytical capabilities

Operational improvement

Team leadership

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience

Tools

SQL

Job description

Description

The Amazon South Africa Retail business is looking for a leader with proven experience to drive process improvements and thought leadership in inventory planning and operations. The Sr. Strategic Supply Chain Manager will be responsible for leading inventory management strategies to maximize customer experience, sales, margin and turns, as well as end-to-end business ownership of all supply chain processes from manufacturer to consumer.

They will use data to influence others and build scalable systems & processes, rather than just addressing single issues.

They will play a critical role in delivering the optimal customer experience by ensuring we have the right product quantities, in the right places, at the right time.

To achieve this mission, Supply Chain Managers work to continuously optimize our end-to-end supply chain by engaging with vendors to improve operational metrics and driving system and process automation with internal teams. The successful candidate must be highly organized and possess strong data extraction and analytical capabilities.

They are able to self‑manage competing priorities, driving both strategic and tactical activities and parallel, and possess strong written and verbal communication skills.

Strong candidates will have knowledge in fundamental business principles and previous relevant experience.

The ideal candidate is able to lead and influence both internal and external teams in an ambiguous environment while maintaining a customer‑centric philosophy.

Key Job Responsibilities

• Identify and deliver operational improvement opportunities around buying and demand planning
• Monitor and identify opportunities to improve key supply chain metrics such as Out of Stock rate, Overstock Rate, Total Inbound Lead Time, Delivery Speed, and Confirmation / Fill Rates
• Share supply chain insights and contribute to business reviews for Senior Leadership (verbal and written)
• Identify opportunities to optimize our supply chain cost structure and profitability through vendor engagement, project management, and collaboration with partner teams on system improvements

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree, or 5+ years of professional or military experience
• Experience working with complex data sets
• Experience delivering results by partnering with and influencing others

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of statistics or other analytical techniques
• Experience with SQL

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We welcome applications from all members of society irrespective of age, sex, disability, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief.

Amazon is strongly committed to diversity within its community and especially welcomes applications from South African citizens who are members of designated groups who may contribute to Employment Equity within the workplace and the further diversification of ideas.

In this regard, the relevant laws and principles associated with Employment Equity will be considered when appointing potential candidates.

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