Transport Compliance Manager, Transportation Associate Programme (TAP)
DESCRIPTION
Operations is the beating heart of Amazon. This key part of our business makes sure we fulfil and dispatch orders efficiently so that our customers get their items on time. As a Compliance Transport Area Manager you will be responsible and accountable leader for driving the compliance of Transport Associate Programme (TAP) Operations across multiple regions, defining a clear vision to drive the compliance in all its elements (people, process, vehicles) and build a path to successfully deliver it leveraging on the collaboration of Transport Managers and Support Functions.
This team is entrepreneurial, wear many hats, and work in a highly collaborative environment. If you have a compliance focused, customer obsessed transportation industry background which carries with it experience of working in a fast paced, ever changing and ambiguous environment we would love to hear from you. You will work from Monday to Friday on the day shift.
Key job responsibilities
• Impart a positive compliance culture, instil ownership and create a high-compliance collaboration across various teams
• On top of Transport Manager(s) which are named on the Commercial road haulage permit for each legal entity, you will be named in the Commercial road haulage permit
• Act as the responsible and accountable person in respect of the road haulage permit and partner with license holder to identify compliance gaps and opportunities
• Act as single threaded owner for driving all compliance related topics and improve compliance performance and governance
• Define a clear vision to drive TAP compliance work and build a path to successfully delivery it covering all compliance elements across process, people and vehicle activities
• Align and coordinate resources towards the common vision and manage efforts across all teams, irrelevant if the resources reporting directly to yourself
• Own lessons learnt and improvements for all compliance topics across all the teams that own compliance related activities
• Work with cross-functional teams
• Uphold Amazon’s high standards of process quality
• Improve and streamline processes, diving deep to find root causes quickly
• Find practical and simple solutions to complex problems without sacrificing quality or core functionality
• Provide day-to-day support during the rollout/implementation of newer systems/processes and gather feedback
• Communicate daily metrics and report exception
• Prepare and participate in Operations daily calls to communicate your team's performance to Transportation Operations Management (TOM) leadership,
•Travel nationally up to circa 25% of the time
About the team
Amazon couldn’t deliver at pace without the Amazon Transportation Service (ATS) team. As part of ATS, you’ll be welcomed into a diverse team that plays a central role in our success. Using air, sea and road transport, as well as sortation centres equipped with the latest technology, you’ll help Amazon’s transport run at maximum efficiency. Our team captures data and uses it to drive decisions. They are key to making Amazon more innovative and efficient.
We put safety first as our people are our priority. And we use the expertise of our people to get packages to their destination – quickly, conveniently and sustainably."
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- A degree
- Valid Transport Manager Certificate of Professional Competence (CPC) qualification according to VERORDNUNG (EG) No. 1071/2009
- Proven experience in leading multi-site large-scale transport operations within a growing and rapidly scaling business
- Relevant experience in people management
- Prior experience within a transportations industry and compliance
- Prior experience with performance metrics, process improvement and Lean techniques
- Ability to develop creative and scalable solutions independently, and drive them from ideation to successful completion; results oriented; ""self-starter""
- Business level fluency in English and German
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Master’s Degree or similar education in Operations Research, Transportation, Logistics, Supply Chain, Economics, Business Administration, or a similar related discipline
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