Sr. Delivery Partner Manager, ZA

Would you like to be part of a team focused on driving innovation in the transportation industry while working to empower entrepreneurs and contribute to Amazon's sustainability goals?

Equal parts advisor and operating partner, Amazon's team of Delivery Partner Managers and Senior Managers assists and guides our Amazon DSPs (Delivery Service Partner) business owners as they build and grow successful middle-mile businesses during a transformational time.

As a Delivery Partner Senior Manager, you will manage the DSP relationship across the entire lifecycle of the business. As trusted advisors, you will work alongside DSPs to help solve their biggest challenges at a programmatic level, influence their business planning and strategy, and look around corners to identify obstacles and recommend solutions, ensuring DSP owners make effective business decisions and are set up for success.

Key job responsibilities
Partner with 25-30 DSP owners across South Africa including entrepreneurs with no background in the logistics industry, or seasoned logistics carriers (Depending on business program)
Work closely with a portfolio of owners at different stages as they set strategy, help drive accountability and engagement, and motivate and track key performance metrics.
Collaborate with an integrated internal team of Program Managers and Compliance and Finance personnel to ensure owners launch and scale their business in compliance with program requirements.
Support owners by removing obstacles and improving financial, operational, and safety practices at the network level.
As Lead, the Delivery Partner Senior Manager will do this by analyzing problems, discovering insights, delivering recommendations, and driving change both internally and externally.
Collaborate frequently with a wide array of integrated internal stakeholders such as Partner Relations (PAR), Value Added Service (VAS), Legal, Fleet, and Network Health, to name a few. The Delivery Partner Senior Managers support owners by removing obstacles and improving financial, operational, and safety practices at the network level. They facilitate and execute Monitoring and Enforcement Policies (MEP) and build two-way feedback channels with OTR teams, DSPs and WW/EU Product and Strategy.
The Delivery Partner Senior Manager will be required to work flexibly and will be required to travel between multiple sites to engage with business owners weekly to carry out their role effectively.

A day in the life
Safety: Partnering with OTR Safety and OTR Regional Managers to ensure business safety compliance.
Performance: Guiding owners as they scale their business and manage operational issues, ensuring they have resources in place to effectively ramp-up operations and prepare for peak period.
Performance: Supporting owners as they onboard to the program and prepare to launch (this will be on the basis of a net new launch only)
Performance: Coach and ensure effective upskilling and utilisation of AMZL tools.
Performance: Deep dive to identify customer metric improvement opportunities.
Performance: Champion the consistent application of Last Mile processes within Delivery Stations – challenge UTR processes that impact OTR.
Performance: Coaching business owners to run compliant, safe and high performing companies (SLS metric deep dive)
Experience: Identifying workflow inefficiencies and working to formulate and implement operational improvements at the network level and to improve the individual DSP owner experience.
Experience: Developing the relationship between Amazon and our DSP partners (DSP sentiment improvements)
Experience: Communication alignment to DSP business owners following close collaboration with OTR partners.
Be the voice of the DSP within and represent them within the AMZL business.
Experience: Improve driver standards to protect brand image.
Capacity Management: Work with the DSP's to deliver effective ramp plans and pipeline goals ensuring driver supply is achieved to meet peak volume demands.

Basic Qualifications:
- Experience analyzing data and best practices to assess performance drivers
- Bachelor's degree
- 5+ years experience building strategic relationships with stakeholders, including communicating and collaborating across teams and functions

Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience influencing internal and external stakeholders

Amazon is an equal opportunities employer, and we value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. We welcome applications from all members of society irrespective of age, sex, disability, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief. Amazon is strongly committed to diversity within its community and especially welcomes applications from South African citizens who are members of designated groups who may contribute to Employment Equity within the workplace and the further diversification of ideas. In this regard, the relevant laws and principles associated with Employment Equity will be considered when appointing potential candidates. We are required by law to verify your ability to work lawfully in South Africa. Amazon requires that you submit a copy of either your identity document or your passport and any applicable work permit if you are a foreign national, along with an updated curriculum vitae.

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