Description

Lead the Direct Imports for Amazon in Egypt. Responsible for importing products for Amazon Retail.

Key job responsibilities

The Direct Import Leader is responsible for:

• Ensuring the execution of the Operating Plan for Importation in Egypt.

• Ensures the coverage of Import stocks during sales events.

• Delivers the lead time from all importation destinations to Egypt.

• Delivers the cost objectives as Cost per Unit imported according to the plan and work towards stretched targets.

• Sets Logistic Providers strategy in a way that ensures business continuity and having competitive cost and delivery time.

• Work with Amazon Fulfilment Centers to ensure safe and timely inbounding of Direct Imports into Amazon Fulfilment Centers.

• Ensures Carriers and logistics providers are complying with customs and other regulations in partnership with Compliance teams.

• Supports automation, lean and simplification projects for the region through working with the team for annual roadmap that delivers continuous improvement for the Regional Direct Import Team.

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of program or project management experience

• 3+ years of working cross functionally with tech and non-tech teams experience

• 3+ years of defining and implementing process improvement initiatives using data and metrics experience

• Bachelor's degree

• Knowledge of Excel (Pivot Tables, VLookUps) at an advanced level and SQL

• Experience defining program requirements and using data and metrics to determine improvements

Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ years of driving end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership experience

• 3+ years of driving process improvements experience

• Experience in stakeholder management, dealing with multiple stakeholders at varied levels of the organization

• Experience building processes, project management, and schedules