Transportation Specialist with French en Barcelona

Location: Barcelona
Language: English and French
Shift: Day Shift, including 4 weekend days per month

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EU ROC Overview
European ROC (Relay Operations Center) is the central control center for Transportation Execution across the Amazon's European Transportation network, supporting both domestic and inter-country transportation movements for European geographies. The team is responsible for planning and scheduling the trucks/vehicles to be placed at each of our fulfillment centers across Europe, based on various factors such as forecast, historical trends, vehicles capacity and carrier capabilities. ROC plays a critical role in ensuring the smooth functioning of Amazon's European transportation network and thereby has direct impact on Amazon's ability to serve customers on time.

Purview of a Transportation Specialist
Transportation Specialist works across the EU in a cross-functional environment with the Supply Chain, FCs and the Retail organizations to determine future demand for Transportation resources, and translates the aforementioned into accurate capacity plans. S/he also maintains and reports up to date and accurate statistics, management reports and analysis. S/he also facilitates the flow of information between different stakeholders (Trans Carriers/Hubs/Warehouses) and resolves any potential issues that impact customer experience and business continuity. Transportation Specialist also provides timely resolution to the issue in hand by researching and querying internal tools and by taking real-time decisions. An ideal candidate should be able to understand the requirements/be able to analyze data and notice trends and be able to drive Customer Experience without compromising on time. The candidate should have the basic understanding of Logistics and should be able to communicate clearly in the written and oral form. The candidate should be willing and flexible to work in night shifts as well.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

· Communicate on day to day with internal stakeholders in order to understand and fix their concrete problems.
· Understand the issue and make best use of the available resources to resolve it.
· Able to systematically escalate problems or variance in the information to the relevant owners and teams according to processes and standard.
· Ensure to surpass all performance and quality goals
· Excellent communication, both verbal and written as one will be required to communicate with internal and external stakeholders.
· Understand performance metrics to create analysis allowing to drive business results.
· Providing real-time customer experience by working in 24*7 operating environment.

· Excellent communication skills – Verbal and Written
· Professional fluency in English and working knowledge of a second language to include French, Spanish or Italian.
· Can do attitude and problem solving state of mind.
· Should be comfortable with a multi-tasking in a high-energy environment.
· Should be flexible to support a 24*7 operating environment and ready to work in shifts.
· Intermediate to advanced knowledge of Excel (formulas, vlookup, pivot tables).

· Degree in Logistic/transportation or any numerical oriented topic
· Former experience in logistics/transportation industry or customer oriented role
· Pull and report data from numerous databases

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