The CM, Forecast and Planning serves as the manufacturing and financial backbone of the Global Manufacturing and Distribution Services organization. This role ensures every production investment is translated into measurable business outcomes. The CM, Forecast and Planning owns financial modeling, resource investment prioritization, and long-range operational planning, while establishing the standardized methodologies the organization uses to measure enablement and return on investment. This individual provides executive visibility into performance against innovation commitments and savings targets, ensuring leadership has real-time clarity on where the organization is delivering, where it is at risk, and where to allocate next.
Key job responsibilities
Financial Modeling & Forecasting: Build, maintain, and continuously refine financial models that project savings delivery, cost avoidance, and investment returns across all pillars within Global Manufacturing and Distribution Services.
Resource Investment Prioritization: Develop and manage frameworks for evaluating and prioritizing resource allocation (finances, time, materials) across competing initiatives, ensuring capital and headcount are directed toward the highest-value opportunities.
Long-Range Operational Planning: Lead annual and multi-year planning cycles, partnering with pillar leaders to build bottoms-up forecasts, set targets, and align operational roadmaps with organizational strategy.
Performance Measurement & Reporting: Establish standardized methodologies for tracking enablement, ROI, and cost reduction performance. Create and maintain executive dashboards and reporting cadences that provide leadership with consistent, actionable visibility.
Transformation Program Tracking: Monitor and report on the status of transformation initiatives across the organization, flagging schedule risks, budget variances, and dependency conflicts to leadership with recommended corrective actions.
Business Case Development: Partner with pillar leaders and sourcing managers to build business cases for new investments, headcount requests, and strategic initiatives, ensuring financial rigor and alignment with organizational priorities.
Variance Analysis & Risk Management: Conduct regular variance analysis against plan, identifying root causes for over/under-performance and developing mitigation strategies to protect savings commitments.
Executive Communication: Prepare and deliver monthly/quarterly business reviews, savings readouts, and investment performance summaries for senior leadership (Director/VP level), translating complex financial data into clear narratives.
Process Standardization: Drive consistency in how financial performance is measured and communicated across all seven pillars, replacing ad-hoc reporting with scalable, repeatable processes.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 4+ years of program or project management experience
- 5+ years of supply chain, forecasting, manufacturing, sourcing/procurement, or vendor management experience
- Experience using data and metrics to determine and drive improvements
- Experience owning program strategy, end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership
- Bachelor's degree
- Experience implementing repeatable processes and driving automation or standardization
- 4+ years of data visualization and reports tools experience
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 6+ years of driving process improvements experience
- Master's degree, or MBA in supply chain, business, engineering, finance or related technical or quantitative field
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
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