Overview
In this role you will lead the supply planning capability within Supply Chain Planning at Amazon, building a scalable, tech-enabled organization. You translate demand and constraints into executable material plans, improve plan quality, and reduce manual effort through automation. You’ll shape hub-and-spoke network design and coordinate with Product, Data, Analytics, and Technology teams to manage risk and optimize inventory and procurement. This is a hands-on leadership role focused on measurable improvements in availability, cost, and planning reliability across global sites.
Responsibilities
- Lead, coach and develop the supply planning team across Launch, KTLO and Programs
- Own end-to-end supply planning mechanisms including MRP creation and execution, order management, and performance measurement
- Translate demand plans, constraints, lead times, funding, and inventory into executable MRPs
- Establish accountability for supply inputs and challenge unsupported changes
- Define and monitor metrics like inventory health, Days of Cover, excess/obsolescence, and order accuracy
- Lead capacity planning to align supplier/network capacity with forecasts and mitigate constraints
- Design and optimize hub-and-spoke and regional network topology for faster fulfillment and lower costs
- Partner with Demand Planning and Enterprise S&OP to incorporate uncertainty and support trade-off decisions
- Develop segmented planning approaches for new launches, steady replenishment, and program-driven procurement
- Collaborate with Product, Data, Analytics and Technology to automate MRP generation, validation, and workflows
- Advance optimization models, ML, and AI to improve plan quality and reduce manual work
- Simplify fragmented data sources and connect planning to real-time inventory and capacity signals
- Build scalable mechanisms that support new products, regions, and planning paradigms
- Communicate supply outlooks, risks, and recommended actions to senior stakeholders
Key requirements
- Experience working cross-functionally with tech and non-tech teams
- Experience in team management
- Experience in cross-functional project delivery
- Experience in program or project management
- Experience in supply chain
- leadership
- cross-functional collaboration
- influencing stakeholders
- MRP creation and execution
- supply planning and capacity planning
- data-driven decision making
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