Senior Program Manager, Dangerous Goods Business Enablement

- Senior

Bellevue, WA

General Merchandise Retailers

About the position

The Worldwide Dangerous Goods (DG) Business Enablement team is looking for a high achieving, results-oriented Senior Risk Program Manager. The DG Business Enablement team partners with business stakeholders on strategic, innovative, high visibility initiatives, to develop solutions that help unblock revenue growth or reduce costs, while ensuring the safe and compliant handling and transportation of Amazon's dangerous goods products throughout Amazon's global fulfillment network. You will plan and execute large scale, strategic, global programs that will require complex cross-functional work and strong influencing skills. As part of that, you will define the strategy, requirements, timelines, and recurring mechanisms to track progress of these initiatives. This position involves regular communication with senior management on long-term visions, roadmaps, program updates, risks, and change management. The person in this role is knowledgeable on the handling and transportation of dangerous goods, and works with business leaders to overcome obstacles to safely and compliantly enable revenue growth and cost reduction efforts. You need to be comfortable dealing with ambiguity and rolling up your sleeves to dive deeper into problem statements, whilst keeping a high bar on scalability, to expand the solutions you will design in collaboration with other DG functional teams, Legal, Business stakeholders, etc. The ideal candidate has strong Program and Project Management skills, business judgement, is able to outline the long-term vision for the program or project owned, cascading it down through clear multi-year roadmaps and milestones, and can solve complicated problems with simple, elegant solutions and crisp communication skills. Clear communication and expectation setting will be key with stakeholders from Partner Teams, also to help bridge any eventual knowledge gap in the space you will own.

Responsibilities

• Execute complex multi-disciplinary projects across multiple stakeholder groups, influencing teams as appropriate to drive the right prioritization
• Outline long-term vision for the project and program owned, including 3-Year Plans and roadmap/milestone plans
• Identify and lead complex initiatives aimed at improving safety, growing Amazon revenue and/or reducing the operational cost, ensuring compliance
• Ensure regulatory requirements are met for existing and new products/processes by understanding product attributes to drive intended transportation solutions
• Design appropriate mechanisms to work cross-functionally with our legal, transportation, engineering, DG, business and software teams to ensure safety and compliance requirements are known and addressed, and projects are carried out to delivery
• Provide periodic visibility to senior leaders across Amazon on the progress, learnings and roadmaps/action plans related to the strategic workstreams you will be leading
• Manage bottlenecks, resolve escalations, and drive key roadmap and resource trade-off discussions
• Develop, articulate, and promote data-driven decisions to solve complex business problems

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent
• 6+ years of compliance, audit or risk management experience
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office products and applications at an advanced level

Nice-to-haves

• Master's degree or equivalent
• Project Management Professional (PMP) or equivalent certification
• Experience leveraging technology and implementing lean principles / Six Sigma methodologies to drive process improvements or equivalent

Benefits

• Equity
• Sign-on payments
• Medical benefits
• Financial benefits
• Other benefits