Description
Amazon Grocery Logistics is looking for a Program Manager with a strong delivery record and proven project management experience to own strategic, tactical, cross-functional and technology projects and programs. This role require scoping and creating project plans, developing processes, coordinating and driving execution, and communicating to senior management on status, risks and process/product changes. Cross-team coordination, project management and executive presentation skills are essential.
A highly analytical candidate with program/project management or grocery operations experience is an ideal fit, as this role will require cross-functional partnership with multiple teams (Tech, Operations, Analytics, Finance, Workforce Planning, Delivery and other teams) to lead, influence, and support business critical projects and initiatives. Robust understanding of fulfillment operations including order fulfillment, inventory flows, constrained warehouse assets (capacity and labor), quality, and long term roadmaps will help develop new innovations within complex ultra-fast operations.
You will be expected to interact with senior-level audiences to provide updates and make strategic recommendations that will achieve the long-term vision for optimal balance between business need and operator experience. Documentation of requirements, project management, and cross-team coordination skills are essential.
Key job responsibilities
Designing and modeling new operations processes for developing business needs to prove quality, cost, and scalability goals as critical outputs.
Gathering and analyzing data across order fulfillment functions to establish global standards for operations in partnership with cross functional teams.
Rethinking the grocery offerings we provide to customers to optimize for speed, convenience, and cost.
Building strong partnership with operations field leaders to understand improvement opportunities.
Analyzing and solving operational barriers with a focus on understanding root causes and driving forward solves.
Leading project teams to plan, organize, and execute complex projects across multiple organizations and stakeholders to enable the launch of new projects and processes.
Innovating to improve customer experience and continuously remove cost from our fulfillment network.
Designing new metrics and enhancing existing metrics to support the future state of the business.
About the team
This team owns operations integration for the fulfillment of online grocery orders. Our goal is to deliver high quality orders to the customer while optimizing for fulfillment efficiency. The person in this role works closely with operations to ensure changes implemented are beneficial to the associate and with other program teams to drive end-to-end cost and quality improvements.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Arlington, VA, USA | Austin, TX, USA | Chicago, IL, USA | Irvine, CA, USA | Nashville, TN, USA | New York, NY, USA | Santa Monica, CA, USA | Seattle, WA, USA
Basic Qualifications
2+ years of program or project management experiencePreferred Qualifications
Knowledge of Lean principles and DMAIC methodology
Experience in MS Access and SQL
Experience in requirement gathering and ability to write clear and detailed requirement document
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $47,500/year in our lowest geographic market up to $107,200/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.