Sr. Program Manager - Geo Expansions, Amazon Freight

At Amazon, we are always exploring new opportunities to shape our global business. As a SR Program Manager, you’ll be leading the geography expansions for Amazon Freight EU, an essential part of innovating and transforming our processes. You’ll be taking the lead on the design and launch of new geos for our customers. This is your opportunity to have a big impact on some of the most exciting new ideas that are shaping the future of Amazon.

This position is based out of our London Corporate Office, with the flexibility to work remotely up to two days per week in line with Amazon’s current flexible work guidance. Amazon encourages open communication about unique needs for flexible arrangements.

Key job responsibilities
- Launch Amazon Freight to new geographies to unlock total addressable opportunity
- Create Go to Market strategy for unlock new geography potential and success plan
- Launch programmes, monitor performance metrics, and report on the status of key objectives that affect deliverables
- Use data to understand operational challenges and create continuous improvement initiatives
- Work with a variety of other Amazon departments to identify and leverage best practices
- Within a programme environment, lead a multidisciplinary team in overcoming challenges and drive progress
- Manage stakeholders and internal processes, and define standards

A day in the life
As a Senior Programme Manager, you will be responsible for planning, implementing, and improving initiatives that ensure the smooth running of our operations. You’ll work closely with a range of Amazon colleagues to understand how they work, and what you and your teams can learn, as well as sharing your own expertise. Together, you’ll identify exciting new opportunities and will take the lead when it comes to designing their implementation.

You’ll encourage and support your teams and colleagues to meet important deliverables, while proactively looking for new, data-backed ways we could do things better. Your work will be integral to your team’s success.

About the team
Amazon couldn’t deliver at pace without the Amazon Transportation Service (ATS) team. As part of ATS, you’ll be welcomed into a diverse team that plays a central role in our success. Our team captures data and uses it to drive decisions. They are key to making Amazon more innovative and efficient.
We put safety first as our people are our priority. And we use the expertise of our people to get packages to their destination – quickly, conveniently and sustainably.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- A degree
- Experience in Program Management and delivering complex projects
- Experience in working with cross functional and executive stakeholders
- Data analytics to evaluate and define strategic initiatives
- Relevant experience in using data or anecdotal evidence to influence business decisions
- Experience working with the MS Office suite (Word, Excel, Outlook) and/or SQL in a professional environment
- Relevant experience driving end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Masters Degree (MBA)
- Experience in launching organizations to new geographies (preferably EU)
- Experience in creating go to market strategy to new launches
- Experience in working with Tax, legal, compliance domain for understanding EU launch space
- Experience in transportation organization

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