Program Manager, Inbound Supply Chain
Amazon•Published 21 hours ago•First seen 12 hours ago
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Amazon Operations is looking for a talented, innovative, hands-on and customer-obsessed Program Manager for managing Inbound Supply Chain charter. Candidate must be detail oriented, have superior verbal and written communication skills, strong organizational skills and should be able to juggle multiple tasks at once. Ideal candidate must exhibit strong analytical skills and have proficiency in following tools: Advanced Excel and SQL (optional). This job requires the candidate to constantly hit the ground running and ability to learn quickly.
In terms of Amazon Program Manager Role Guideline, the incumbent should display the following for this role:
1. Manage complex initiatives, deliver critical solutions, significant improvements, new mechanisms, or deprecating processes that are no longer needed. These efforts require work with multiple teams in and/or across organizations.
2. Accountable for the overall strategy of a large program and successfully manage all stages (from concept to delivery). Your program meets challenging business goals financial or other metrics.
3. Understanding the interdependencies of the business problems you help solve (e.g., aligned workflows, customer requirements, process limitations, legal or compliance requirements, program support, etc.) and influence team priorities and business strategy through data-driven contributions.
4. Communicates ideas effectively, verbally and in writing, to a wide range of audiences including Directors and VPs. Partner successfully with customers, stakeholders, and engineering teams.
5. Define clear goals and objectives and drive crisp decisions in the program about what projects move forward and in what priority order. Proactively identify risks and bring them to the attention of team and stakeholders with plans for mitigation before they become roadblocks
6. Judiciously add, refine, and remove procedures. Increase the productivity and effectiveness of the teams by applying project management best practices
Amazon Operations is looking for a talented, innovative, hands-on and customer-obsessed Program Manager for managing Inbound Supply Chain charter. Candidate must be detail oriented, have superior verbal and written communication skills, strong organizational skills and should be able to juggle multiple tasks at once. Ideal candidate must exhibit strong analytical skills and have proficiency in following tools: Advanced Excel and SQL (optional). This job requires the candidate to constantly hit the ground running and ability to learn quickly.
In terms of Amazon Program Manager Role Guideline, the incumbent should display the following for this role:
1. Manage complex initiatives, deliver critical solutions, significant improvements, new mechanisms, or deprecating processes that are no longer needed. These efforts require work with multiple teams in and/or across organizations.
2. Accountable for the overall strategy of a large program and successfully manage all stages (from concept to delivery). Your program meets challenging business goals financial or other metrics.
3. Understanding the interdependencies of the business problems you help solve (e.g., aligned workflows, customer requirements, process limitations, legal or compliance requirements, program support, etc.) and influence team priorities and business strategy through data-driven contributions.
4. Communicates ideas effectively, verbally and in writing, to a wide range of audiences including Directors and VPs. Partner successfully with customers, stakeholders, and engineering teams.
5. Define clear goals and objectives and drive crisp decisions in the program about what projects move forward and in what priority order. Proactively identify risks and bring them to the attention of team and stakeholders with plans for mitigation before they become roadblocks
6. Judiciously add, refine, and remove procedures. Increase the productivity and effectiveness of the teams by applying project management best practices
Basic Qualifications
- 3+ years of program or project management experience
- 3+ years of working cross functionally with tech and non-tech teams experience
- 3+ years of defining and implementing process improvement initiatives using data and metrics experience
- Bachelor's degree
- Knowledge of Excel (Pivot Tables, VLookUps) at an advanced level and SQL
- Experience defining program requirements and using data and metrics to determine improvements
Preferred Qualifications
- 3+ years of driving end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership experience
- 3+ years of driving process improvements experience
- Experience in stakeholder management, dealing with multiple stakeholders at varied levels of the organization
- Experience building processes, project management, and schedules