Sr PM, Capacity Planning, Selling Partner Communities
Amazon · Seattle, WA · 2 wk ago
ManagementFull-time
Key job responsibilities
- Own the capacity planning process end-to-end, from intake to execution readiness, including weekly and quarterly headcount planning across multiple workstreams and geographies
- Build short/long term operational plans for different global sites to optimize variable costs associated with staffing
- Define and maintain gearing ratios to align staffing and throughput capacity across dependent teams
- Build and operationalize planning mechanisms to proactively address seasonality initiatives, high-level policy changes and volume variability
- Partner with stakeholders to model throughput scenarios and identify bottlenecks, leveraging historical data and forecasted inputs
- Develop and manage dashboards and reporting tools to monitor capacity utilization and SLA adherence
- Lead regular capacity reviews with stakeholders, identifying gaps between forecasted demand and available bandwidth
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives to shorten planning SLAs and increase process automation
- Collaborate with Finance and Program stakeholders to align labor and budget assumptions for near- and long-range planning
Basic Qualifications
- 5+ years of program or project management experience
- Experience using data and metrics to determine and drive improvements
- Experience owning program strategy, end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership
Preferred Qualifications
- 2+ years of driving process improvements experience
- Master's degree, or MBA in business, operations, human resources, adult education, organizational development, instructional design or related field
- Knowledge of general AI tools
- Experience designing, implementing, and scaling upskilling, apprenticeship, or workforce development programs across large-scale operations or corporate environments, including forecasting workforce needs and leveraging analytics to drive program decisions