Senior Air Cargo Network Planner - Flight Scheduling, Amazon AIR

About the role

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 Air Cargo (ACAR) Network Planner to join the Flight Scheduling team and help shape the future of Amazon AIR. In this role, you will own the development and optimization of flight capacity strategies meeting Amazon internal and external customer demand trends across long, 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.

Key job responsibilities

• Lead Long term to short term flight schedule solutions to enable within Amazon AIR to service both Amazon internal and external customer demands, serving as the primary point of contact for cross functional business units
• 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.
• 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.

A day in the life

As a Senior ACAR Network Planner, you will identify and incorporate long term ACAR vision into AIR's planning model - this includes developing and optimizing flight schedule operating plans, identifying new mechanisms, and communicating those plans across internal teams. You will also contribute to long term strategic recommendations to align with AIR's future vision

Your day will blend data analysis, network modeling, and cross functional collaboration. You will build flight schedules to accommodate peak volume, analyze network to identify under-performing routes, or present capacity tradeoff scenarios to senior leadership. You will regularly partner with AIR carriers, operations, ground transportation teams to ensure flight schedules are tightly integrated with the broader network.

This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a fast paced environment and is energized by solving complex network optimization problems that directly impact millions of customer deliveries.

Basic Qualifications

• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• 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

Additional information

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If the country/region you're applying in isn't listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

Pay and benefits

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including 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, and parental leave.

USA, WA, Bellevue - 115,400.00 - 160,000.00 USD annually