Egypt Direct Import Country Manager
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