Program Manager, Supply chain, JWO

AWS Applied AI Solutions (AAIS) is building toward a future where every business innovates with Amazon AI teammates. To get there, we build AI solutions that improve human capabilities and transform entire business functions. We create end-to-end products that surprise and delight out-of-the-box, making complex things easy and hard things possible, with no cloud experience required. We start with customers who embrace the future and build bridges to meet the rest where they are. We pursue ambitious opportunities with conviction, and we are looking for builders who share that mindset.

We are optimizing the shopping experience for Amazon's Customers in the Physical retail space. This role will be a key member of the program team located in Hyderabad supporting Just Walk Out (JWO) tech and business teams. The successful candidate will be a self-starter comfortable with ambiguity, with strong attention to detail, an ability to work in a fast-paced, high-energy, and ever-changing environment.

A successful candidate will: • Have the ability to work independently in a broad array of environments. • Manage cross-functional project teams, planning, organizing, and executing complex projects across multiple organizations and stakeholders to enable the launch of new sites at scale. • Build strong partnerships with operations leaders to understand improvement opportunities. • Have the ability to work in fast-paced environment. • Confidence operating in a highly ambiguous and iterative business space. • High attention to detail including proven ability to manage multiple competing priorities simultaneously. • Willingness to challenge and influence senior leaders through data driven insights. • Able to work with internal and external partners to drive long term solutions.

Key job responsibilities
• Develop, review, approve, coordinate, and lead large strategic projects / programs within Amazon Business Units (BUs) and across different geographies. • Build relationships and partner across cross-functional teams to build and execute on new initiatives and roadmaps. • Collaborate with global stakeholders and partners to deliver on project goals. Coordinate a portfolio of programs from inception to delivery. • Define and implement metrics to measure performance across procurement operations and transportation logistics. • Compile, manage, and report on weekly project metrics and be responsible for leading meetings to align on project requirements.
• Communicate program status updates to the stakeholders and senior leadership on a regular basis. • Provide program insights and data driven recommendations to support strategic decisions. • Communicate efficiently with internal and external partners to drive process improvements.

About the team
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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
- Knowledge of Excel (Pivot Tables, VLookUps) at an advanced level and SQL
- Experience defining program requirements and using data and metrics to determine improvements
- Experience managing service providers and vendors

Preferred qualifications

- 5+ years of driving end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership experience
- 5+ 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

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