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Enterprise Strategy & Ops Lead, Amazon Supply Chain Services

Amazon.com Inc
  • Santa Monica, CA
    17 days ago

    Job Description

    Amazon Freight is a fast-growing business within Amazon Supply Chain Services (ASCS) that provides enterprise shippers with a full-service freight solution. Our Enterprise Account Management team owns the commercial relationships with some of the largest shippers in North America, managing a complex book of business that spans truckload, intermodal, and LTL.

    We are looking for an Enterprise Strategic Initiatives Lead to serve as a force multiplier for our Enterprise organization. This role reports directly to the Head of Enterprise Account Management and sits embedded within the sales, account management, and customer success teams. This is an ownership role where you will identify the highest-leverage opportunities to improve our business, build the solutions, and drive outcomes end to end within our organization and across our partner organizations.

    The right person for this role is equal parts strategist and operator. You will define new initiatives, build the frameworks, create the tools, and ensure our teams execute against them. You will work across every function that touches our enterprise business: sales, operations, pricing, finance, product, and technology. The work is highly ambiguous, changes frequently, and requires someone who thrives in complexity and moves fast without sacrificing quality.

    This role is ideal for someone who wants to own a broad portfolio of high-impact work, operate with significant autonomy, and directly shape the trajectory of a business that is scaling rapidly. It is also a strong development path into a senior customer-facing role for candidates who want to build deep business acumen before taking on direct account ownership

    Key job responsibilities

    • Strategic Initiative Ownership: Identify, design, and drive end-to-end execution of initiatives that improve financial performance, operational efficiency, and sales effectiveness across the Enterprise book of business. You own the full lifecycle from opportunity identification through scaled implementation.
    • Financial Performance: Develop and maintain inspection tools, reporting mechanisms, and analytical frameworks that enable the team to understand and improve margin, revenue, and cost outcomes. Build new approaches to financial visibility that allow leaders to make faster, better-informed decisions.
    • Analytics, AI & Tooling: Design and implement new data collection methods, dashboards, and AI-driven solutions that give our teams an edge in managing financial outcomes. Partner with technology and data science teams to translate business needs into scalable tools.
    • Process Design & Standard Work: Inspect current processes, define new expectations, and build the training and enablement materials to ensure teams execute at a high bar. Create audit mechanisms and goal structures that drive accountability and continuous improvement.
    • Cross-Functional Influence: Work across sales, operations, pricing, finance, product, and technology to drive alignment and action on strategic priorities. Navigate ambiguity and competing priorities to deliver outcomes without direct authority.
    • Cost Reduction & Margin Improvement: Identify and execute cost reduction opportunities that improve the economics of our enterprise business. Build business cases, quantify impact, and drive implementation with partner teams.
    • Reporting & Communication: Build and own regular reporting cadences (flash reports, financial reviews, initiative updates) that give leadership clear visibility into business performance and initiative progress.

    A day in the life

    No two weeks look the same in this role, which is what makes it compelling. In a given week you might:

    • Analyze P&L data to identify a margin erosion trend, then build a business case and action plan to address it with the pricing and operations teams.
    • Design and roll out a new goal structure or audit mechanism to ensure account executives are driving the financial outcomes the business needs.
    • Partner with data science or technology teams to build an AI-driven reporting tool that gives your sales team real-time visibility into cost drivers and financial performance.
    • Develop and deliver training on a new standard work process you created, ensuring the team understands both the what and the why.
    • Lead a cross-functional working group to solve a cost problem that spans operations, carrier management, and commercial teams.
    • Build a new inspection or reporting cadence that allows leadership to identify underperforming areas of the business and take targeted action.
    • Scope a new cost reduction initiative from scratch: define the opportunity, build the mechanism, pilot with a subset of accounts, measure results, and scale.

    You will operate at the intersection of strategy and execution. The expectation is not just to identify what we should do, but to build it, ship it, and make sure it works. You will present regularly to senior leadership, influence teams across the organization, and own outcomes that are measured in dollars.

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationSanta Monica, CA
    IndustryRetail
    Company Size10,000 employees or more
    Year Founded1994
    Websitehttp://Amazon.com/militaryroles

    About Company

    At Amazon, we don’t wait for the next big idea to present itself. We envision the shape of impossible things and then we boldly make them reality. So far, this mindset has helped us achieve some incredible things. Let’s build new systems, challenge the status quo, and design the world we want to live in. We believe the work you do here will be the best work of your life.

    Wherever you are in your career exploration, Amazon likely has an opportunity for you. Our research scientists and engineers shape the future of natural language understanding with Alexa. Fulfillment center associates around the globe send customer orders from our warehouses to doorsteps. Product managers set feature requirements, strategy, and marketing messages for brand new customer experiences. And as we grow, we’ll add jobs that haven’t been invented yet.

    It’s Always Day 1
    At Amazon, it’s always “Day 1.” Now, what does this mean and why does it matter? It means that our approach remains the same as it was on Amazon’s very first day – to make smart, fast decisions, stay nimble, invent, and stay focused on delighting our customers. In our 2016 shareholder letter, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos shared his thoughts on how to keep up a Day 1 company mindset. “Staying in Day 1 requires you to experiment patiently, accept failures, plant seeds, protect saplings, and double down when you see customer delight,” he wrote. “A customer-obsessed culture best creates the conditions where all of that can happen.” You can read the full letter here

    Our Leadership Principles
    Our Leadership Principles help us keep a Day 1 mentality. They aren’t just a pretty inspirational wall hanging. Amazonians use them, every day, whether they’re discussing ideas for new projects, deciding on the best solution for a customer’s problem, or interviewing candidates. To read through our Leadership Principles from Customer Obsession to Bias for Action, visit https://www.amazon.jobs/principles

    Skills

    • Analysis Skillsunmatched
    • Artificial Intelligence (AI)unmatched
    • Business Caseunmatched
    • Business Growthunmatched
    • Business Skillsunmatched
    • Cadenceunmatched
    • Cargo/Freightunmatched
    • Continuous Improvementunmatched
    • Cost Controlunmatched
    • Cross-Functionalunmatched
    • Customer Relationsunmatched
    • Data Collectionunmatched
    • Data Scienceunmatched
    • Economicsunmatched
    • Embedded Systemsunmatched
    • Enterprise Salesunmatched
    • Financeunmatched
    • Financial Managementunmatched
    • Financial Reportingunmatched
    • Flash Reportingunmatched
    • Lead Generationunmatched
    • Leadershipunmatched
    • Less Than Truckload (LTL)unmatched
    • Machine Toolunmatched
    • Operational Strategyunmatched
    • Operations Managementunmatched
    • Pricingunmatched
    • Problem Solving Skillsunmatched
    • Process Improvementunmatched
    • Product/Service Launchunmatched
    • Profit & Loss Analysisunmatched
    • Reporting Dashboardsunmatched
    • Salesunmatched
    • Sales Managementunmatched
    • Sales Operationsunmatched
    • Strategic Planningunmatched
    • Supply Chainunmatched
    • Team Lead/Managerunmatched
    • Training/Teachingunmatched

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