Head of Strategy, Amazon Freight EU

Description

Leaders are owners. They think long term for our customers and don’t sacrifice long-term value for short-term results. Amazon Freight Europe is looking for just such an owner to lead the strategy for our externalized freight business to design and deliver a world class freight experience for our business customers.

ABOUT THIS ROLE
The Head of Strategy will report directly into the leader of the Amazon Freight Europe business to lead and build out the newly created Strategy team across Europe (including UK). They will be based in Luxembourg, London or Munich to tackle the most hotly debated topics within our startup organization. They will partner closely with Product, Program, Operations and Commercial leaders to identify the challenges and opportunities in our organization, and come up with creative, customer-driven solutions to solve them. The Head of Strategy will work across both the European business and worldwide tech domains to shape our long-term business plan, diving deep with leaders across multiple areas to define customer problems and deliver the solutions.

ABOUT YOU
You’re a self-described ‘builder’ and ‘fixer’ with a passion for figuring out what the future looks like. You have a relentless focus on creating and improving customer value. You’re a hands-on multitasker who can quickly change focus and balance the needs of the moment with longer-term goals. You have a high tolerance for ambiguity and complexity. You have resilience and a positive, solutions-oriented attitude – even the toughest challenges are possible with the right amount of creativity, good judgment and hard work. You have strong problem solving, communication and organizational skills and the ability to influence stakeholders without direct authority, along with a good understanding of product development/management and digital media.

You’re a leader with a blend of strategy, product management and/or operations experience and have the business acumen to understand and shape Amazon Freight’s business-wide roadmap. You achieve your results through other people, often without authority, making complex decisions simple through data and inspire people at all levels in the organization. You proactively identify gaps and risks, and partner with senior leaders in and out of the organization to define creative solutions to solve them. You embody the rare combination of thinker and doer.

YOU WILL.
-Partner with Product, Program, Operations and Commercial teams to oversee strategic business initiatives from development through to successful execution, ensuring that individual function targets are in harmony and resolving those that aren’t.
Support colleagues in their decision-making, program management, and initiative implementation, calling out opportunities to double-down and the unseen risks.
-Review, design, and execute improvements to organizational structure; find knowledge and skills gaps and help address them.
-Improve current processes and review organization-wide procedures for efficiency and productivity.
-Control the output of shared-services functions to ensure that outsourced tasks deliver to the high expectations of our Amazon Freight customers.

Key job responsibilities
•Ensure department goals are well integrated with each other and control organization-wide success, identifying areas to invest, double down or repair.
•Influence wider Amazon teams to secure collaborative, efficient solutions for our customers, re-using existing capabilities wherever possible.
•Build long term strategic plans, working alongside our product team, who specifies new products and features, our tech team that builds them, our operations that deliver them, our commercial team that sells them as well as the Amazon Freight teams outside EU.
•Stay close to the operational realities of our business, recognizing that what we will build has its foundation in the work of our Associates and partners on sites and in vehicles.
•This includes organizational design to help build our future team structures whilst securing support to our team for new hires, including documentation, onboarding, and learning and development team.
•Develop and build relationships with all employees for increased efficiency and responsiveness of existing operations, and help define new operational strategies by working with EU AF Director and other executives on special projects.

A day in the life
- Build relationships with our customers (shippers).
- Coach and mentor business developers within the team.
- Define business development KPIs targets and manage performance against these KPIs.
- Dive deep into shippers' requirements and pain points to find solutions.

About the team
At Amazon Freight, we blend advanced technology with Amazon's network of 6,500+ owned trailers and 13,000+ trusted carrier partners across UK & EU to move freight-simply and reliably. We apply the same customer obsession that we are known for in the consumer business to the Business to Business segment, aiming to partner with our customers to meet the demands of today while helping to navigate the road ahead. The team is diverse and intercultural with passionate members with a team-focused attitude. Across Amazon, we have committed to reach net-zero carbon by 2040, ten years ahead of the Paris Agreement and we take this commitment seriously in Amazon Freight too. We’re not there yet but if this sounds interesting, maybe you can help us get there.

Basic Qualifications

- Experience in team management
- Bachelor's degree or above
- Experience that includes strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and effective communication abilities
- Seven or more years of senior experience in a business management or operations management role.
- Experience in organizing and directing multiple teams and departments in a multi-matrixed environment.
- Experience in planning and leading strategic initiatives.
- Strong alignment with our leadership principles, particularly Customer Obsession, Think Big and Strive to be Earth’s Best Employer.

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience implementing repeatable processes and driving automation or standardization
- Master's degree or above in management, business administration, economics, engineering, marketing
- Experience delivering forecasting, budgeting, variance analysis, and data interpretation of results
- Experience coordinating between project teams and customers to meet unique customer requirements
- Experience in a high-performance start-up or incubation effort within a larger company
- Consulting experience, with a focus on operations management.

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