Amazon-posted about 1 year ago
$104,100 - $185,000/Yr
Full-time • Mid Level
Nashville, TN
Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, Book, and Miscellaneous Retailers

The Sr. Program Manager at Amazon Worldwide Operations will lead complex, cross-functional programs that significantly impact multiple organizations. This role requires strategic thinking, project management expertise, and the ability to drive initiatives in a fast-paced environment. The successful candidate will manage the full lifecycle of programs, develop strategies, and communicate effectively with senior management.

  • Manage full lifecycle of complex cross-functional programs with considerable impact across multiple organizations
  • Develop the overall program strategy, tactically driving teams in and outside of your organization to deliver
  • Define the program (mission, vision, tenets), set objectives, analyze data and drive improvements that are quantified with metrics
  • Work autonomously in an ambiguous environment, seeking to understand business problems, automation limitations, scaling factors, boundary conditions and reasons behind leadership decisions
  • Partner with teams across the business you support and beyond to source, allocate, and coordinate resources
  • Partner with customers, internal/external teams, and engineering teams to determine what projects move forward and in what priority order
  • Oversee gaps between teams, processes and systems, helping teams reduce exposure to classic failure modes
  • Solve ambiguous problems and proactively identify and mitigate risks
  • Work with program managers, business leaders and executive team to communicate and impact critical business initiatives
  • Develop, implement, and govern KPI reporting for a portfolio of programs, providing visibility to the milestones, and performance across all projects
  • Engage other Amazon business units globally to share best practices and improve end to end outcomes for Amazon customers
  • Create, communicate, and manage budget for projects
  • Bachelor's degree in supply chain, business, engineering, finance or related technical or quantitative field
  • 5+ years of program or project management 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
  • Demonstrated experience leading and owning cross-functional programs
  • Experience using Microsoft Excel including pivot tables, macros, index/match, vlookup, VBA, data links, or similar functions
  • 2+ years of driving process improvements experience
  • Master's degree, or MBA in business, operations, human resources, adult education, organizational development, instructional design or related field
  • Practical application of program management methodology including PMP/Lean Six Sigma/Kaizen
  • Advanced knowledge of analytical tools such as SQL, Tableau, MS Excel, or Microsoft Access
  • Experience handling changing priorities and using good judgment when working in stressful situations
  • Demonstrable problem-solving, mathematic, and analytical skills using data to drive decisions
  • Demonstrated experience and proficiency in effective communication of goals and strategies across multiple leadership levels of an organization
  • Demonstrated success in thinking strategically and executing methodically
  • Demonstrated experience communicating data insights to others, including use of data visualization tools
  • Demonstrated ability to dive deep in understanding the product, business and competitive landscape
  • Medical, financial, and other benefits
  • Equity and sign-on payments as part of total compensation package
  • Comprehensive employee benefits package
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