The Amazon Air (AIR) process improvement specialist is a core member of the AIR ACES team, who leverages the unique perspective into the customer experience, operational execution, and scalability, and spearheads program improvements, network partnerships, and strategic vision from this. This role will be the leader of the operations concession's strategy, developing both the short- and long-term roadmaps for network improvement.
You will proactively engage with key business stakeholders across the network to bring forward the voice of the customer to identify and deliver critical customer impacting solutions. Areas of concentration will span the entirety of the AIR network, supporting the current operations quality strategy team. There is no shortage of opportunity to relentlessly advocate on behalf of our customers and drive tangible results.
Key job responsibilities
- Own the development of the AIR Ground Operations strategy for defect reduction, distilling the strategic and execution actions, alignment across senior leadership and key stakeholders
- Advocate on behalf of Customers and identify experience improvement opportunities throughout the business using data, defect information, and anecdotes
- Build structured governance models that drive people, process, and improvement to optimize Customer experience end-to-end
- Formulate insights and present well-reasoned, data-driven proposals to cross-functional stakeholder teams on opportunities in areas of concessions and defect elimination
- Support development of strategies/programs, and influence prioritization of defect elimination and improved customer experience projects across the organization
- Develop/drive a periodic business and program progress reporting as it relates to concessions and defect elimination, and manage engagement with the stakeholders
- Deliver product/program quality improvements based on data that directly or indirectly impacts the customer experience
- Travel domestically up to 25% of the time
- Support onsite activities such as Gemba, daily deep dive, and training operations leaders
A day in the life
Attend site daily deep dive
Attend site Gemba
Engage daily with operators and create subject matter experts
Own a core quality metric - own large network initiatives to improve this metric
About the team
AIR ACES fosters collaborative partnerships with our stakeholders, empowering them to join us in continuously improving processes in pursuit of operational excellence. ACES supports prioritizes four pillars: 1) Process Quality, 2) Operational Excellence, 3) Continuous Improvement, and 4) Operator Engagement, .
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's degree or above in engineering, project management, operations, logistics, supply chain or related field
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience handling multiple competing priorities and complex projects with multiple stakeholders (e.g. definition of accurate network expansion plans, vendor development, quality assurance, design and cost improvement, team and stakeholder engagement)
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.
USA, KY, Erlanger - 120,900.00 - 163,200.00 USD annually
