Description

At Amazon, we're working to be the most customer-centric company on Earth. To get there, we need exceptionally talented, bright, and driven people. The Amazon Fresh Grocery team is seeking a customer-obsessed Program Manager, with a proven track record of delivering results, to own fixed cost optimization for grocery fulfillment centers and grocery distribution centers. The ideal candidate is a data-driven self-starter with experience in project management, an interest in generating cost reduction solutions, and a drive for challenging the status quo on processes that have been around since inception of Amazon Fresh.

The program manager will be a pillar of the financial strategy working group that works closely with both internal and external partners to create and propose strategies and concepts to hit profitability goals for the Fresh business. This will require a willingness to dive into the details, solve new problems as they arise, leverage high judgment and gut instinct, and look around corners. You will own fixed cost financial progress GFCs (grocery fulfillment centers) – understanding financial opportunities, creating a strategy to hit financial goals, and highlighting risks for senior management. This role is inherently cross-functional, working closely with field operations leaders, finance, procurement, maintenance, category managers, accounting, and executive teams.

Key job responsibilities

• Develop, execute, and optimize an end-to-end strategy to reduce fixed cost and hit profitability goals for assigned regions.

• Work closely with procurement, field leadership, maintenance, finance, and ops integration teams to meet business priorities

• Work autonomously in an ambiguous environment, seeking to understand business problems, automation limitations, scaling factors, boundary conditions and reasons behind leadership decisions

• Develop data-driven reduction solutions utilizing raw data sources

• Support in-depth business reviews and present results and insights to key stakeholders

• Earn trust at all levels through excellent communication and collaboration

• Prioritize effectively in a quickly changing and ambiguous environment

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of program or project management experience

• 3+ years of defining and implementing process improvement initiatives using data and metrics experience

• Knowledge of Excel (Pivot Tables, VLookUps) at an advanced level and SQL

• Experience using data and metrics to determine and drive improvements

• Experience working cross functionally with tech and non-tech teams

Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ years of driving end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership experience

• Experience in stakeholder management, dealing with multiple stakeholders at varied levels of the organization

• Experience building processes, project management, and schedules

• Experience using a financial P&L to back up idea generation

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. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $66,800/year in our lowest geographic market up to $142,800/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.