Senior Program Manager, Temporary role, Amazon Transportation Hubs

As a Senior Program Manager, you will drive the strategic plan to optimize planning as well as the end-to-end design, implementation and monitoring of projects aimed specifically at improving Amazon's performance and driving sustainability attributes across Europe. You will work in a cross-functional environment with the Program Development, Global Tech, Scheduling, Operations, Carrier management, Network planning teams, Launch and Integration, and lead projects that will step change the way we operate. If this sounds interesting thus far, read on.

Key job responsibilities

• This role will be focused specifically at improving Amazon's performance and driving sustainability attributes across Europe.
• Define the process and technology strategy for EU Surface Transportation.
• Develop in-depth understanding of processes, tools, data, and teams involved; and define best practices.
• Use Six Sigma tools, DMAIC, PDCA to drive results, identify gaps and opportunities, to initiate and lead high-impact projects targeting to continuously improve and cut out losses.
• Derive recommendations from analysis that significantly impact a department, create new processes, or change existing processes.
• Designing, implementing and monitoring metrics to track the progress and growth of programs, and to highlight issues on a timely basis.
• Solve ambiguous issues with less defined inputs and outputs whilst identifying root causes.
• Ensure transparent and consistent reporting of status, progress, impact, and risks.

About the team
Amazon Transportation Services (ATS) is a rapidly growing, global operation unit, which significantly impacts the customer experience.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Economics, Engineering or a related field.
• Experience working within a planning function.
• Experience in project management.

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced computer literacy (Excel, Word). Tableau/SQL/Python desired.
• Experience interacting and driving results with senior leaders across various teams in the organization
• Other European Languages.

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