DESCRIPTION

Here at Amazon we're seeking for a results driven Senior Project Manager to launch the Project Management function of our Inventory Control and Quality Assurance (ICQA) operations for Australia.

The ICQA mission is to drive down defects in Amazon’s inventory through development of a data landscape and by focusing on continuous process improvements. This is accomplished through our ICQA standard processes. Our vision is to meet and exceed customers’ expectations, both buyers and sellers, with defect-free order fulfillment. Customers get exactly what was ordered in the best possible condition because the inventory was received, stowed, picked, packed, and shipped in the most effective and accurate way achievable. We execute our strategy through audits, inventory counts (according to SOX requirements) and projects, while striving to be Earth’s best employer. We work to build a culture of quality in E2E fulfillment operations while developing our managers to lead through engagement and building partnerships.

The Senior Program Manager will play an active and critical role in the AU ICQA team, leading top projects from roadmap and supporting AU ICQA regional team and central team in implementing AU ICQA vision, mission and strategy, as well as other departments such as Amazon Customer Excellence System (ACES), Loss and Prevention (LP), Finance, Ops Integration (Concessions team) and Learn and Development (L&D). Senior PM will drive speed, quality, and simplification by eliminating rework loops and implementing and supporting best practices across the business, minimizing process variability through standardization and automation.

To be successful in this role, the candidate will require knowledge in operations and apply the best project management approach depending on project’s needs and be able to thrive in a dynamic and fast-paced global environment, assess and manage risks on an ongoing basis.

Key Job Responsibilities: - The major tasks and responsibilities will involve (but not limited to) the following: - Execute projects on time versus scheduled and accordingly to resource capacity planning, - Monitoring and reporting regular work progress with reports towards meeting the project deliverables, - Monitoring project resource and manpower requirements, - Keeping the project focus in line with detailed project plans, - Capturing lessons learned throughout the life of the project and translate them into opportunity of improvements, best practices and new standard.

Key job responsibilities

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience using data and metrics to determine and drive improvements, - Experience owning program strategy, end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership, - Experience defining and executing program requirements, - Strong analytical abilities and data analysis skills, - You possess excellent verbal and written communications skills,

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience in driving process improvements experience, - Bachelors or Master's degree, or MBA in business, operations, human resources, adult education, organizational development, instructional design or related field, - Knowledge of Excel at an intermediate level (e.g., pivot tables & charts, multiple criteria lookups, nested logical/IF formulas, data cleansing, array formulas, etc.).