Business Coach, , VAS-Category
Amazon
About the Role
As a Business Coach at Amazon, you will act as both an advisor and an operating partner, assisting and guiding Delivery Service Partner (DSP) business owners in building and growing successful last-mile package delivery businesses. You will identify and execute value-creation opportunities and manage DSP relationships throughout their business lifecycle. You will work alongside DSPs to help solve their biggest challenges at a programmatic level, influence their business planning and strategy, and identify obstacles and recommend solutions to ensure effective business decisions and success.
Key Responsibilities
- Support owners as they onboard to the program and prepare to launch.
- Guide 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 periods.
- Coordinate Business and Financial Health Reviews to discuss business performance, new opportunities, provide benchmarking data, and insights.
- Identify workflow inefficiencies and work to formulate and implement operational improvements at the network level and to improve the individual DSP owner experience.
- Partner with 20-40 DSP owners assigned to delivery stations, working closely with a portfolio of owners at different stages as they set strategy, drive accountability and engagement, and track key performance metrics.
- Collaborate with an integrated internal team of Station Operations Managers, Program Managers, and Compliance and Finance personnel to ensure owners launch and scale their business in compliance with program requirements.
- Provide best-in-class support for owners by removing obstacles and improving financial, operational, and safety practices at the network level.
- Analyze problems, discover insights, deliver recommendations, and drive change both internally and externally.
Requirements & Tech Stack
- Strong interpersonal skills including a demonstrated ability to earn trust, inspire others, and be empathetic.
- Analytical and creative abilities.
- Deadline-driven, organized, and able to multi-task.
- Experience working with cross-functional teams.
Qualifications
- 2+ years of employee and performance management experience.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent, or 2+ years of Amazon (blue badge/FTE) experience.
- Preferred: 1+ years of performance metrics, process improvement, or lean techniques experience.
