Senior Technical Program Manager, Supply Chain Network Design

Description

Supply Chain Innovation is seeking an experienced Senior Technical Program Manager to lead large cross-organizational initiatives across Amazon's end to end supply chain worldwide. This is an exciting opportunity to drive forward-thinking projects at the forefront of Amazon's robotics and automation efforts.

In this role you will partner with strong technical leaders to drive the long-term vision of the organization, own delivery of cross organization initiatives, assist in developing and leading organization roadmaps, driving efficiency in processes, and delivering on goals. You understand, utilize and share program-management best practices. You may be assigned to manage the roadmap for an organization, which may include contributing to OP1/OP2 narratives, and ownership of one or more organizational goals. As a Senior Technical Program Manager, you are accountable for the overall strategy as well as driving teams inside and outside your organization to deliver. You are able to define the program (mission, vision, tenets), set goals, analyze data, drive improvements that are quantified with metrics, and influence resource allocation. You understand the systems in your product or program space, their limitations, scaling factors, boundary conditions, and reasons behind architectural choices.

Key job responsibilities

• You will understand the significant business problems, automation limitations, scaling factors, boundary conditions, and reasons behind decisions. - You will demonstrate good judgment in how and when to escalate. You are data-oriented, regularly review metrics, and proactively seek out new and improved data/mechanisms for visibility. You will ensure your programs stay aligned with organizational goals.
• You will ensure stakeholder needs are aligned, while driving mindful discussions that lead to crisp decisions. You will partner with customers, internal/external teams, and/or engineering teams to determine what projects move forward and in what priority order. You will write effective narratives, program updates, and present them effectively to stakeholders and management team. - You create plans that have clear, measurable success criteria and return on investment. You oversee the gap between teams, processes, and systems. You are able to solve ambiguous problems and proactively identify and mitigate risks.
• You oversee the gap between teams, processes, and system architectures. You help teams/your organization reduce exposure to classic failure modes (e.g., requirements not sufficiently understood/documented, ineffective cross-team collaboration, long-term impact(s) from of the use of third-party technologies, APIs not protected/hardened, insufficient testing/gaps in QA).
• You solve ambiguous problems and proactively identify and mitigate risks (before they become roadblocks)
  
  

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science or equivalent
• 5 years of technical product or program management experience
• 7 years of working directly with engineering teams experience
• 3 years of software development experience
• 5 years of technical program management working directly with software engineering teams experience
• Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• 5 years of project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management experience
• Experience managing projects across cross functional teams, building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules
• Experience defining KPI's/SLA's used to drive multi-million dollar businesses and reporting to senior leadership
  
  

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $133,900/year in our lowest geographic market up to $231,400/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: A2829055