Sr Program Manager, RBS-SPEG UDE

- 5+ years of working cross functionally with tech and non-tech teams experience
- 5+ years of program or project management experience
- 5+ years of delivering cross functional projects experience
- Experience defining program requirements and using data and metrics to determine improvements
- 2+ years of driving process improvements experience
- Master's degree, or MBA in business, operations, human resources, adult education, organizational development, instructional design or related field

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Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN), a Fortune 500 company based in Seattle, opened on the World Wide Web in July 1995 and today offers Earth's Biggest Selection. Amazon.com, Inc. seeks to be Earth's most customer-centric company, where customers can find and discover anything they might want to buy online, and endeavors to offer its customers the lowest possible prices. Today, we operate retail websites in nine countries, offering millions of products in more than 40 categories worldwide, and we still like to work hard, have fun and make history!
Retail Business Services (RBS) leverages technology to improve customer experience and selling partner experience while lowering Amazon’s cost structure. Vision of RBS is to accelerate Amazon’s flywheel by 1) Improving the customer experience by fixing detail page catalog defects at scale, 2) Improving selling partner listing quality to drive revenue and reducing fulfillment defects to drive profitability and 3) Improving store operations efficiency by driving down cost of operations. We strive to eliminate the root cause of the defect and wherever not possible, we leverage machine learning to find and fix at scale or surface to selling partners. RBS has multiple programs/services aimed at reducing the listing friction, improving listing quality, reducing customer returns and improving star ratings of products that are dependent on selling partner support for effective execution.

RBS is looking for a Sr Program Manager to join Upstream Defect Elimination (UDE) program which focuses on ensuring customer facing processes are defect free to lower the cost of doing business for Amazon and its Selling Partners.

As Program Manager you will:
1) Drive the defect identification mechanisms and strategize the defect pipeline for long term success
2) Establish strong working mechanisms with senior business and product owners to drive broader and faster implementation of identified solutions
3) Create reports and metrics to demonstrate progress towards goals, provide new insights, and send regular updates to senior leadership

About You:
1) Leader: You have lead cross-functional teams against tangible milestones and consistently delivered valuable projects. You have
ability to think both strategically and tactically in a high-energy, fast paced environment.
2) Doer: You’ve successfully delivered end-to-end projects, working through the many obstacles along the way.
3) Detail Oriented: You have an enviable level of attention to detail, and catch things that others miss.
4) Influencer: Innovative leader with the ability to identify opportunities and gain support with data, storytelling, and persuasion.
5) Communicator: Ability to communicate expectations, requirements, and progress to senior leaders, peers, and team members, selling partners.
6) Problem Solver: Ability to utilize exceptional problem-solving skills to work through difficult challenges.


Key job responsibilities
As Program Manager you will:
-Manage new and existing programs, successfully delivering difficult projects and goals across multiple organizations
- Work directly with operations leaders, support leaders, and third party vendors to design and deliver scalable solutions
- Partner with other program managers to secure resources, scope efforts, set project priorities and milestones and deliver on-time
- Own program communication; accelerating progress by driving crisp and timely decisions, removing barriers, escalating as appropriate
- Influence design and development of strategic processes
- Work with program managers and business leaders to communicate and impact critical business initiatives
- Develop, implement, and govern KPI reporting for a portfolio of programs, providing visibility to the milestones, and performance across all projects and using this data to drive/influence business decisions
- Engage other Amazon business units globally to share best practices and improve end-to-end outcomes for Amazon customers
- Manage post-launch support plans (e.g., post-mortem, issue/ticket management, etc.) and look for opportunities to improve program quality and operational excellence