What are the responsibilities and job description for the Program Manager, REI Capital Projects position at Amazon?
Description
Amazon Global Engineering Services is seeking a highly motivated Senior Program Manager to lead capital planning, project management, and change management initiatives across Amazon's existing Retail Fulfillment and Logistics ecosystem. This role will be pivotal in driving rapid growth, operational excellence, and effective change implementation at scale.
You will be responsible for developing thoughtful program strategies, while also directly managing hands-on execution for the portfolio of projects supported. The ideal candidate is detail oriented, comfortable with ambiguity, and capable of balancing competing priorities. A successful candidate will implement scalable process improvements, influence large cross-functional teams and leaders, and leverage data to drive business decision making.
Key job responsibilities
Capital Planning And Project Management
The REI Capital Projects Team is embedded within the Global Engineering Services organization, and is responsible for directly overseeing all Legacy Network Retrofits, Expansions and Initiatives across North America. Our team manages end-to-end controllership of Operational Changes and Capital Investments within our Existing Retail Network. These changes will focus on large-scale initiatives with extensive investment—including physical, structural, interior and exterior site modifications, mechanical equipment and technology, and, innovation and sustainability deployments—that drive excellence in Safety, Compliance, Operational Efficiency, and Associate Experience for Amazon.com's growing Retail network.
Basic Qualifications
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $66,800/year in our lowest geographic market up to $142,800/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. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
Company - Amazon.com Services LLC
Job ID: A2875770
Amazon Global Engineering Services is seeking a highly motivated Senior Program Manager to lead capital planning, project management, and change management initiatives across Amazon's existing Retail Fulfillment and Logistics ecosystem. This role will be pivotal in driving rapid growth, operational excellence, and effective change implementation at scale.
You will be responsible for developing thoughtful program strategies, while also directly managing hands-on execution for the portfolio of projects supported. The ideal candidate is detail oriented, comfortable with ambiguity, and capable of balancing competing priorities. A successful candidate will implement scalable process improvements, influence large cross-functional teams and leaders, and leverage data to drive business decision making.
Key job responsibilities
Capital Planning And Project Management
- Manage and support multiple Amazon business units, including Global Customer Fulfillment, Global Air Program, Global Transportation, Amazon Logistics, Emerging Markets, PillPack, Merch by Amazon, Sort Center Network, and strategic initiatives.
- Develop estimates, assumptions, schedules, cash flow forecasts, track budgets, and manage execution plans for existing network facility expansions, retrofits, and new technology initiatives.
- Ensure adequate project funding is secured, enabling on-time and under-budget project execution.
- Manage funding milestones and schedule dependencies.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align project planning, financial entitlement, and effective investment decision-making.
- Lead change management initiative approvals to optimize Amazon's legacy network.
- Garner support and adoption of program and process changes that drive Safety, Operational Efficiency, Technology Deployment, among others.
- Review new change requests from corporate (network level) and operations (site level) stakeholders and provide feedback and guidance to ensure the optimal decision is made for the business at-large.
- Build and maintain a team of subject matter experts across various disciplines.
- Identify and address customer and business pain points through lean/agile methodologies and other improvement techniques.
- Lead and implement scalable process improvement projects within the team and across the organization.
- Partner and actively manage competing priorities across all functions within the Engineering Services organization (including Finance, Program Management Office, Supply Chain Capacity, Startup, Launch, Real Estate, Construction, Operations Engineering, Procurement, Safety, Sustainability, People Experience Technology (PXT), among several others).
- Educated upstream and downstream partners of interdependencies, influence without authority, and hold teams accountable to ensure high-quality delivery with minimal defects in project approval, deployment and execution.
The REI Capital Projects Team is embedded within the Global Engineering Services organization, and is responsible for directly overseeing all Legacy Network Retrofits, Expansions and Initiatives across North America. Our team manages end-to-end controllership of Operational Changes and Capital Investments within our Existing Retail Network. These changes will focus on large-scale initiatives with extensive investment—including physical, structural, interior and exterior site modifications, mechanical equipment and technology, and, innovation and sustainability deployments—that drive excellence in Safety, Compliance, Operational Efficiency, and Associate Experience for Amazon.com's growing Retail network.
Basic Qualifications
- 3 years of program or project management 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 using data and metrics to determine and drive improvements
- Experience working cross functionally with tech and non-tech teams
- Bachelor's degree
- 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
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $66,800/year in our lowest geographic market up to $142,800/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. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
Company - Amazon.com Services LLC
Job ID: A2875770
Salary : $66,800 - $142,800
