DESCRIPTION Amazon Worldwide Operations is looking for a Senior Program Manager, Device Uptime to own strategic, tactical, cross-functional and technology projects and programs within Amazon Logistics. In this role, the individual will need to be able to work cross-functionally with internal and external stakeholders in order to improve vehicle uptime and optimization while eliminating barriers for our internal customers.
Responsibilities:
- Build a program from theoretical to an efficient and sustainable process
- Scope, create, and drive project plans and budgets
- Communicate to Senior Management on status, risks and process/product changes
- Manage full lifecycle of complex cross-functional programs with considerable impact across multiple organizations
- Development of 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 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 (e.g.,requirements not sufficiently understood or documented, ineffective cross-team collaboration, long-term impact(s) from third-party solutions, security not considered, insufficient stakeholder review, etc.)
- Proactively identify and mitigate risks before they become roadblocks
- 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
- Manage vendors and built sustainable mechanisms to drive program efficiencies.
**Travel expectations will be approximately 15%
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Arlington, VA, USA | Nashville, TN, USA | Seattle, WA, USA BASIC QUALIFICATIONS - 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
- Bachelor's degree
