Amazon - Production Planning Analyst

Production Planning Analyst

Job location: Bangalore

Job Description:

At Amazon, delivering great experiences for our customers is top priority. The Production Planning Team is aggressively innovating in a number of areas aimed at propelling our customers- experience by ensuring we have robust and optimal labor plans in our Fulfillment Centers.

We are looking for a passionate, energetic, and technical Industrial Engineer who loves to get their hands dirty and will relentlessly drive quality, accuracy and efficiency in the planning process. This Industrial Engineer will be a member of the Production Planning Team, which will recommend on-going hourly staffing plans and shift structures in all of our European Fulfillment Centers.

Basic Qualifications:

- A completed Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Operations or related field

- Experience in a manufacturing, production or distribution environment

- MBA

Preferred Qualifications:

- Experience with a contingent workforce during peak seasons

- Ability to handle changing priorities and use good judgment in stressful situations

- Experience with Advanced Planning & Optimization Systems, or Enterprise Resource Planning Systems, with the ability to influence technical teams to achieve the right technical solutions

- Deep understanding of Distribution and Manufacturing Resource Planning

- Experience with performance metrics, process improvement and Lean techniques

- Strong sense of ownership and customer obsession

- Strong problem solving and trouble shooting skills and an ability to come up with creative solutions to impossible-to-solve problems

- Ability to closely work with operation, finance and planning leaders to manage lead-time, capacity, and optimize the impact of labor on supply position throughout the entire supply chain