Program Manager Job in Amazon

DESCRIPTION

At Amazon, we're working to be the most customer-centric company on earth. To get there, we need exceptionally talented, bright, and driven people. We are looking for a high-octane individual (with strong analytical capabilities) to join the CMT team as a program manager.

Do you want to be part of the team that ensures Amazon keeps its best price promise across millions of products worldwide? Does the challenge of driving decisions in a dynamic environment excite you? Do you love solving complex business problems? Are you seeking an environment where you can drive innovation? Are you a passionate self-starter? If the answer to the above questions is a resounding YES, read on!

Opportunity:

As a Program Manager you will create and implement processes that can deliver projects at scale. You will collaborate with business and development teams across the company to define requirements, design high level process, and manage all aspects of the program execution including writing business requirements, maintaining the project schedule, resolving or mitigating issues and risks, and communicating results throughout the organization.

You will interface and drive agenda with the automation, technology and business teams to build scalable programs. The role involves influencing peers and stakeholders in other functions to achieve the operational and business goals. A successful candidate should have the ability to work at all levels of detail to accomplish team/organization goals. The ideal candidate actively seeks to understand Amazons core business values and initiatives, and translates those into everyday practices.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Some of the key result areas include, but not limited to:
Responsibility for meeting Program Goals
Driving appropriate process improvement projects, data oriented analysis and adoption of technology solutions to achieve operational and business goals
Managing stakeholder communication across multiple lines of business on operational milestones, process changes and escalations
Identify automation gaps with product teams to build scalable solutions to manage business needs at scale
Providing project management and cross-functional support on key improvement initiatives
Disseminating program & strategy updates to internal and external stakeholders
Must haves:
Ability to work in a highly complex business that requires cross functional coordination
High ability to influence senior stakeholders to prioritize use cases for defect reduction
Independent decision making
Continue to push stakeholders to think big in developing or re-design processes and systems that can create transformational business impact






At Amazon, we're working to be the most customer-centric company on earth. To get there, we need exceptionally talented, bright, and driven people. We are looking for a high-octane individual (with strong analytical capabilities) to join the CMT team as a program manager.

Do you want to be part of the team that ensures Amazon keeps its best price promise across millions of products worldwide? Does the challenge of driving decisions in a dynamic environment excite you? Do you love solving complex business problems? Are you seeking an environment where you can drive innovation? Are you a passionate self-starter? If the answer to the above questions is a resounding YES, read on!

Opportunity:

As a Program Manager you will create and implement processes that can deliver projects at scale. You will collaborate with business and development teams across the company to define requirements, design high level process, and manage all aspects of the program execution including writing business requirements, maintaining the project schedule, resolving or mitigating issues and risks, and communicating results throughout the organization.

You will interface and drive agenda with the automation, technology and business teams to build scalable programs. The role involves influencing peers and stakeholders in other functions to achieve the operational and business goals. A successful candidate should have the ability to work at all levels of detail to accomplish team/organization goals. The ideal candidate actively seeks to understand Amazons core business values and initiatives, and translates those into everyday practices.


KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Some of the key result areas include, but not limited to:
Responsibility for meeting Program Goals
Driving appropriate process improvement projects, data oriented analysis and adoption of technology solutions to achieve operational and business goals
Managing stakeholder communication across multiple lines of business on operational milestones, process changes and escalations
Identify automation gaps with product teams to build scalable solutions to manage business needs at scale
Providing project management and cross-functional support on key improvement initiatives
Disseminating program & strategy updates to internal and external stakeholders
Must haves:
Ability to work in a highly complex business that requires cross functional coordination
High ability to influence senior stakeholders to prioritize use cases for defect reduction
Independent decision making
Continue to push stakeholders to think big in developing or re-design processes and systems that can create transformational business impact

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

Masters degree from Tier 1 B-school
4+ years program management experience
Proven analytical and quantitative skills
Expert ability in Excel e.g. macros, data analysis tools.
Demonstrated success leading project delivery for cross functional programs
Demonstrated record of partnering with and influencing cross-functional teams.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Strong written and verbal communications and interpersonal/team skills
Organizational skills with ability to manage multiple, competing priorities simultaneously
Track record of taking ownership and driving results
Ability to identify opportunities to improve performance and efficiencies of existing systems and processes