Key job responsibilities
• Lead meetings with regional and nodal TOM Operations leaders and planning partners to complete weekly labor plans and understand gaps in performance
• Build and execute Transportation Labor plans on a weekly basis using existing labor planning tools and help innovate with future tools
• Create and generate reports which includes maintaining, updating, and expanding labor reporting on a daily and weekly basis
• Gather and analyze data across business functions to establish global standards for transportation labor plan inputs and work with partners to communicate those standards as best practices to the organization
• Reviewing weekly assumption inputs to ensure the Labor Model accurately forecasts labor hours needed to meet operational demands
A day in the life
• Analyze daily/weekly labor reporting and work closely with site leaders to bridge any misses, understand causes, and identify solutions.
• Lead twice-weekly regional labor plan review calls to help Operations leaders understand their site-level inputs to the labor model, as well as driving TOM LP key performance indicators (KPIs).
• Work closely with the Recruiting team to ensure sites and recruiters are tracking to the needed total quarterly headcount targets.
• Provide written summaries of labor bridges for review by Operations leaders during weekly and monthly business reviews.
• Work with Field Leaders on deep dives to help drive improvement on KPIs to meet Labor Planning and OP2 goals.
About the team
The North America Transportation Operations Management (TOM) Labor Planning team owns the delivery of the short and long term labor plans for the NA TOM network. We work closely with field and program partners to ensure our sites are staffed with the right number of associates to safely and efficiently run our yards and support the Amazon fulfillment network.
TOM Labor Planning Analysts are the primary labor contact to help regional and nodal Operations leaders understand their labor plan and to support site leaders in managing their labor efficiently.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- High school or equivalent diploma
- 1+ years of experience required in data and business analytics
- At least 1 year of labor planning or finance experience
- Knowledge in Excel with experience in efficient processing of large data sets using pivot tables and other Excel tools
- Proven record of accomplishment of successful communication of analytical outcomes through written communication, including an ability to communicate with various levels of business owners
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- BA/BS degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Engineering, or related degrees
- Experience within a distribution center, logistics, or manufacturing environment
- 1-2 years’ experience in positions that require analysis and influencing stakeholders from data interpretation
- Experience working with large-scale data mining and reporting tools (i.e. SQL, QuickSight, Excel VBA, Python, Power BI, Alteryx, Tableau).
- Experience presenting and communicating across all levels of the organization; ability to speak and write effectively before the appropriate audience
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