DESCRIPTION
Are you passionate about improving the quality of customer experiences? Do you strive to create customer-centric solutions that drive measurable results? Do you like to design and implement scalable end-to-end solutions built on sound process excellence principles? Does leading resource coordination and priority setting across teams, countries and cultures sound exciting?
The Selling Partner Support (SPS) Team is looking for a Senior Program Manager - Operations Integration, to challenge the status quo and drive large-scale process improvements, implementation on time and with positive impact on our Associates and Registered Brand Owners.
Registered Brand Owners represent significant value to Amazon’s online retail customers and Selling Partner Support drive success for them through a combination of people, processes and services. We are a primary interface between Brand Owners and Amazon and drive cross-functional initiatives to improve the Brand Owner experience. We possess a wealth of data regarding the reason Brand Owners contact us for help and we use this information to identify and drive improvements to our Brand Owners solutions across the Company.
As a Program Leader for Brand Support, you will be responsible for identifying, driving and tracking strategic initiatives that improve the Brand experience and will measure the results by monitoring quality and efficiency metrics and contacts. In this high profile role, you will collaborate with numerous operational, training, product, and software development teams both inside and outside Selling Partner Support to identify, define and specify solutions that create the conditions for sellers’ success and satisfaction. You will build collaborative relationships with these partners, working closely to create and execute a quality project roadmap. You will prepare and execute regular program updates to senior management.
The successful candidate will be input focused and will have isolated and correlated inputs to achieve impactful outputs, built closed loop processes and measures to ensure adoption of products and processes so that improvements are realized. S/he will also have proven ability to assess situations and guide teams toward both short-term and longer term systemic changes. The ideal candidate will possess an analytic, statistical and optimization background to enable strategic workforce planning and strategic service initiatives planning. In this role you will experience a wide range of problem solving situations, strategic to real-time, requiring extensive use of data collection and analysis.
At Amazon, we believe innovation should occur throughout the organization. This disruptive leader will stimulate and pioneer innovation in operational and Seller service excellence and be an active voice and member of the Selling Partner Support leadership team.
The ideal candidate for this role will be able to:
· Interact with stakeholders at multiple levels and dynamically lead business and product teams to define and deliver solutions to establish standard processes.
· Identify and analyze data to isolate issues, develop solutions and prioritize opportunities for Brand experience improvements.
· Determine and implement effective Operations solutions quickly, so as to not impede production
· Plan and manage multiple parallel projects.
· Maximize resource utilization for the greater good of the organization.
· Create, maintain and disseminate project information to stakeholders and senior management
· Remain flexible to changing priorities, open to new ideas and have seller quality as the top focus.
· Be a visible and vocal role model across the wider business for Amazon’s customer-centric culture, championing Seller’s needs and using data and technology to anticipate and exceed them.
Longer term, this leader will:
· Stimulate new innovative thinking and fresh approaches to extend Amazon’s leadership position in service to our Sellers.
· Ensure Amazon’s Selling Partner Support Operations effectively scale to meet the needs of the rapidly growing business, including identifying and implementing process improvements throughout our Global Network.
Amazon.com is an Equal Opportunity-Affirmative Action Employer – Minority / Female / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
5+ years project/program management is required
5+ years of experience leading project or program delivery for large, cross functional projects
Experience developing operational process and technologies to drive Operational Excellence through best in class change management practices
Demonstrated ability to deliver both strategic and tactical results across diverse cultures from inception to completion
Bachelor degree
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
MBA is preferred
Superior oral and written communication skills are crucial
Experience with Six Sigma tools and Lean techniques
Experience working with contact centers globally
Experience in online retail is a plus
Ability to think and act both strategically and tactically
Proven track record of taking ownership and driving results in an Internet business
Demonstrated ability to build quantitative reporting and dashboards for problem solving