Sr. PM · Building Specifications Lead — Network Planning @ Amazon

Building the networks
that deliver Europe.

I'm Antonio Nocera. I made my name closing deals with $1B+ fashion brands — Top 10% account manager in Europe. Today I design the €5B warehouse network that delivers what I once sold. Commercial instinct, engineering discipline: I speak both languages.

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€5B+

CapEx programs led

$200M+

New business generated

€50M+

Savings delivered

Top 10%

EU sales performer, 2022

Antonio Nocera
IT Made in Sicily · Based in Madrid
My Story

From the temples of Agrigento
to the warehouses of Europe.

I was born and raised in Agrigento, Sicily — in the shadow of the Valley of the Temples, where the Greeks built things meant to last 2,500 years. Maybe that's where my obsession with building things that endure comes from.

"You can take a Sicilian out of Sicily, but you can never take Sicily out of a Sicilian."

My land taught me warmth, resilience, and the value of hard work. Everything that came after — Milan, Hanoi, Madrid — is built on that foundation. And every summer, I go back to recharge where it all started.

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The Roots

Agrigento, Sicily

Born among Greek temples and the Mediterranean Sea. Home, always.

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2015 — 2019

Milan · Bocconi

The leap north. BSc in Economics & Finance at Bocconi — where ambition met discipline, and Sunday pasta met spreadsheets.

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2017

Hanoi, Vietnam

Exchange at Foreign Trade University. Four months that rewired how I see the world — and sparked a lifelong love for solo backpacking.

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2019 — Today

Madrid · IESE & Amazon

Master in Management at IESE (Big Data), then Amazon: from fashion accounts to €5B infrastructure programs. Madrid is home #2.

About me

Strategy on paper is easy.
I make it stand up in concrete and steel.

I lead the Building Requirements Specification (BRS) process across Europe at Amazon, translating Supply Chain & Network Planning inputs into engineering requirements for the fulfillment centers that power millions of deliveries.

My path is unconventional by design: I started in consulting at Accenture, built commercial muscle as a Key Account Manager in Amazon Fashion — overachieving targets by +25%, managing C-level relationships with $1B+ brands, and generating $200M+ in new business — and then moved into large-scale supply chain infrastructure, where business acumen and technical depth meet.

What drives me: taking ambiguous, high-stakes problems, structuring them with data, and aligning senior stakeholders behind a decision. Then delivering it.

⚡ Quick facts

  • 📍 Based in Madrid, Spain
  • 🏢 Current Amazon EU
  • 🎓 IESE MiM · Big Data
  • 🎓 Bocconi · Economics & Finance
  • 🌍 Languages IT · EN · ES · PT
  • 🎾 Italian National Tennis Championship
Experience

The journey so far

Amazon Jul 2024 — Present
Sr. Program Manager — Building Specifications Lead · Network Planning
Madrid, Spain
  • Lead the Building Requirements Specification (BRS) process across Europe — engineering requirements for 10+ warehouses (~€5B CapEx).
  • Delivered €50M+ in savings through design standardization, network optimization, and early engineering validation.
  • Main liaison between Network Planning, Operations, Engineering, and Finance — driving data-backed decisions on large-scale infrastructure.
Amazon Fashion Jan 2021 — Jul 2024
Key Account Manager
Madrid, Spain
  • Onboarded new brands and distributors to Amazon.es, overachieving sales target by +25% — Top 10% EU performer (2022).
  • Managed C-level relationships with major fashion brands (>$1B turnover).
  • Coordinated EU-wide New Seller Recruitment across 5 markets, generating $200M+ in new business with a 19-person team.
  • Started as Account Representative Intern: optimized B2B lead processes for 140+ managers, achieving 15% YoY productivity gains.
Accenture Sep 2020 — Jan 2021
Analyst — Finance & Strategy
Milan, Italy
  • Designed and implemented a new finance operating model in under 4 months, integrating administrative, controlling, and treasury processes.
  • Ran gap and impact analyses, selling two improvement initiatives solving logistics and offshoring issues.
  • As Summer Analyst (2018): mapped finance processes for a $2.5B Italian beverage firm, training 400+ employees on new standards.
Education

Where I trained my thinking

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IESE Business School

Master in Management — Major in Big Data

Madrid · 2019 — 2020

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Bocconi University

BSc Economics & Finance

Milan · 2015 — 2019

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Foreign Trade University

International Exchange Program

Hanoi, Vietnam · 2017

Skills & Languages

My toolkit

🤝 Commercial & Sales

Key Account ManagementC-level Negotiation Business DevelopmentNew Seller Recruitment

📊 Data & Analytics

SQLRTableau Crystal BallPower QueryAdvanced Excel

🧭 Program Leadership

Network PlanningCapEx ProgramsStakeholder Management Design StandardizationBusiness Cases

🤖 Generative AI

ForecastingScenario PlanningData Storytelling AI-assisted Workflows

🗣️ Languages

ItalianNative
EnglishFluent · C1
SpanishFluent · C1
PortugueseBasic · A1
Beyond work

What keeps me sharp

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Competitive Tennis

Competed in the Italian National Tennis Championship (2008–2011). Discipline learned on court, applied everywhere.

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Solo Backpacking

Passionate about adventure travel — comfortable with ambiguity, on the road and in the boardroom.

Let's build something big.

Open to conversations about supply chain, network design, infrastructure programs — or a good tennis match in Madrid.

✉️ nocera.ant@gmail.com in · LinkedIn