Planning & Strategy Lead for Learning, Ats/amzl Process Learning

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Are you a Day1 thinker who is passionate about growing leaders at Amazon and having global impact? If so, the ATS/AMZL Process Learning team would like to hear from you Head of Learning Strategy & Planning - ATS/AMZL

Position Overview:
The Head of Learning Strategy & Planning will shape and drive the strategic learning roadmap for Amazon Transportation Services (ATS) and Amazon Logistics (AMZL) process learning across EU Operations. This strategic role sits at the intersection of operational excellence and learning effectiveness, focusing on creating comprehensive planning frameworks and strategic approaches to ensure successful process learning implementation.

Strategic Planning:
As the planning lead for ATS/AMZL process learning, you will design and implement the learning roadmap that aligns with operational goals and business transformation initiatives. Your expertise will be crucial in leading the planning and prioritization of process learning needs across multiple regions and operations types. The role demands a systematic approach to collaboration across a broad learning landscape, ensuring that the impact and reporting of learning programs is highly visible to the customer. Alongside the ability to create clear planning frameworks that reduce ambiguity.

Stakeholder Management & Impact:
You will partner closely with learning teams within AMZL/ATS and beyond. This involves developing strategic frameworks for new process rollouts and changes, ensuring effective learning integration across the network. Your role will be instrumental in leading the analysis of learning impact and effectiveness for process-based training, providing data-driven insights to senior leadership.

Organizational Alignment:
Working in close collaboration with global teams, you will ensure standardization of process learning while enabling necessary regional adaptation. A key aspect of the role involves overseeing strategic resource allocation and capacity planning for learning initiatives, ensuring optimal deployment of learning resources across the network.

Required Experience & Capabilities:
Location & Travel:
The position will be based in one of our EU Corporate Offices (London, Munich, Milan, Madrid, Barcelona, Paris, or Luxembourg), with regular travel required within EU.

Key job responsibilities
Key Responsibilities:
Strategic Planning & Analysis

Own and drive the annual/quarterly planning cycle for process learning initiatives
Develop comprehensive planning frameworks that align learning needs with operational timelines
Create standardized approaches for prioritizing learning requests across regions
Build and maintain strategic dashboards to track learning implementation and effectiveness

Program & Resource Management

Lead capacity planning for learning resources across EU
Create and maintain program roadmaps for major process learning initiatives
Establish planning governance to ensure efficient use of learning resources
Develop contingency plans for critical learning implementations

About the team
EU STEP brings together Supply Chain, Network Design, and Transportation Planning teams to improve end-to-end forecasting, network flow, planning, and execution. It also brings together our teams from across the business focused on our Operational Excellence pillars - Amazon Customer Excellence Systems (ACES), Learning, Quality, Service, Sustainability and Reliability Maintenance Engineering (RME) Field teams. This integration strengthens operations and execution while driving quality improvements and enhanced customer experience across the entire value chain.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Degree level qualified.
- Proven ability to negotiate agreement across teams.
- Confidence and competence in dealing with ambiguity and competing priorities
- High degree of experience in creating, measuring and reporting out on relevant performance indicators
- Strong organizational, interpersonal and communication skills
- A strong focus on internal customers’ needs and satisfaction, with an emphasis on demonstrating return on investment in training.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Project management experience
- Experience from within logistics, distribution or retail industry is a plus