Senior Flight Capacity Planner - Network Planning, Amazon AIR

Amazon • Nashville, TN

4d • Onsite

About The Position

Amazon AIR is building one of the most ambitious dedicated air transportation networks in the world, designed to redefine delivery speed and selection for hundreds of millions of customers. As we scale this network, we need leaders who can tackle complex operational challenges and deliver results that customers feel every single day. We are seeking a Senior Flight Capacity Planner to join the Network Planning team and help shape the future of Amazon AIR. In this role, you will own the development and optimization of flight capacity strategies across medium and short term planning horizons, including flight schedule design, capacity allocation, and network modeling. You will also lead high impact, cross functional initiatives that drive efficiency, reduce cost, and improve service performance across the air network. This role sits at the intersection of strategy and execution. You will partner with leaders across Amazon AIR, including Operations, Finance, and Analytics, and directly influence senior leadership decisions that shape how millions of packages move through our network. Your recommendations will balance customer experience with cost effectiveness, and your work will have a measurable impact on Amazon's end to end transportation ecosystem. If you thrive on solving complex, ambiguous problems at scale, want to innovate across air and ground transportation solutions, and are passionate about delighting customers, we'd love for you to help us make Amazon AIR history.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree
• 5+ years of supply chain experience
• Experience using data and metrics to determine and drive improvements
• Experience owning program strategy, end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership

Nice To Haves

• Master's degree, or MBA in supply chain management, operations, engineering, analytics or related field
• 5+ years of driving process improvements experience
• Experience in the aviation industry

Responsibilities

• Lead medium to short range flight schedule development within Amazon AIR, serving as the primary point of contact for cross functional business units including ground transportation, fulfillment centers, and last mile operations.
• Develop and present data driven recommendations to senior leadership on network design changes, route adjustments, and capacity investments.
• Develop and optimize capacity plans and network strategy, driving continuous improvement across customer experience, cost efficiency, and sustainability metrics.
• Evaluate complex tradeoffs between customer needs and cost, building consensus across partner teams such as Finance, Operations, Process Engineering, and Procurement to drive aligned decision making.
• Partner with Research Science and Technology as a subject matter expert to design and develop next generation planning and forecasting tools.
• Analyze flight utilization, block hour efficiency, and network performance data to identify optimization opportunities
• Monitor and manage flight capacity allocation across the network, ensuring alignment between demand forecasts, and operational constraints.
• Navigate ambiguity while managing and coordinating multiple concurrent projects in a fast paced, deadline driven environment, taking full ownership and accountability for processes and delivering on commitments.
• Domestic travel up to 10% of the time.

Benefits

• health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
• 401(k) matching
• paid time off
• parental leave
• sign-on payments
• restricted stock units (RSUs)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior