Amazon.com Services Looking for Senior Program Manager, Transportation Finance Pmo, Global Mile Program at Bellevue, WA, United States Full Time

Job Description

• 5+ years of experience in program or project management
• Experience using data and metrics to drive improvements
• Experience owning program strategy, end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership

• Experience defining program requirements and using data and metrics to determine improvements
• 5+ years of experience working cross functionally with tech and non-tech team
• 5+ years of experience delivering cross functional projects
• Bachelor’s degree or higher
• 5+ years of experience in program or project management, including the delivery of cross-functional projects.
• Proficient in core project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management.
• Experience implementing repeatable processes and driving automation and standardization.
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills (English)
• Comfortable working with cross-functional teams, experience engaging global leaders and dealing with ambiguity and competing objectives
• Schedule may require occasional work on weekends or holidays.
• May need to work virtually until corporate guidance changes.

Job summary
Global Mile – Program Manager Do you believe that customer obsession should inspire what we do? Can you drive analysis without owning the resources? Can you execute ambiguous tasks perfection and support implementation of objectives in Amazon Transportation worldwide? If so, let’s take the next step and see if you’re ready to be a Program manager for the GTS (Global Transportation Services) Project Management Team.

The GTS PMO (Project management office) will manage a diverse collection of projects that will shape the future of WW OB Transportation. This team collaborates with the Global Mile and teams worldwide to improve their processes, and identifies and delivers next-generation solutions for these processes. The Global Mile Program Manager reports to the GTS PMO Leader – Sr. Finance Manager.

To be successful in this position, we seek an innovative and analytical operations program manager who has the knowledge and experience in complex operations in an organization. A key to influencing key shareholders is to have the ability to solve complex, technical problems with simple and practical solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Join a passionate team with a customer obsession responsible for designing and developing systems and processes that drive Amazon Transportation’s Global Mile business
• Identifies basic control risks, evaluates impact, proposes changes, and implements improvements to remediate gaps
• Define, plan and deliver enterprise-level transformation programs; deliver insights and creating new mechanisms to efficiently track and enhance performance.
• Operate effectively in the cross-functional environment
• Works with a variety of data sources. Identifies incomplete or inaccurate data, identifies root causes of data issues, escalates discrepancies, fixes data where possible or partners to deliver a solution.
• Uses active listening skills intuitively to communicate data (both written and verbal) in a clear, concise, and unambiguous manner. Adjusts style for various audiences to articulate complex finance issues clearly.
• Identifies and implements solutions to resolve, improve, automate, standardize, or simplify finance processes.
• Be extremely results oriented and execute on complex strategies, be it in operational facilities or Amazon corporate offices around the world and tie out all loose ends on projects. Possess the ability to operate seamlessly in all these environments. Makes thoughtful time management decisions independently. Discerns between urgent and non-urgent issues and acts accordingly to solve them.
• Drives own self-development in the Finance Community & in the larger Transportation community: seeks opportunities to expand finance expertise. Participates in events, initiatives, and projects, then shares gained knowledge in and outside of your team.

• MBA or equivalent work experience
• Project Management certification such as PMP
• Previous direct people management responsibilities.
• Demonstrated ability to understand technology and leverage this knowledge for Program Management.
• Broad experience, across functional and technical areas, designing, developing, deploying, and maintaining large scale projects.
• Expertly skilled at gathering functional requirements and converting those into a realistic, detailed functional spec and project plan.
• Has played a leadership role for several complete product cycles. Sets the standard for effective program management.
• Ability to calculate high level ROI and partner with finance to complete a cost-benefit analysis.
• Experience prioritizing competing projects across departments, bringing a company-wide perspective to decision making.
• Experience working with large-scale data mining and reporting tools (examples: SQL, Tableau, Essbase, Cognos) and other financial systems (examples: Oracle, SAP, Lawson, JD Edwards)

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