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Sr. Program Manager, Workplace Health & Safety, AMZL NA

Amazon · Nashville, TN · Today
Project ManagementFull-time

About the role

At Amazon, we're working to be the most customer-centric company, to be the best employer, and to be the safest place to work on earth. One focus area of the North America Amazon Logistics (AMZL) network is to provide tools, resources, and environments that support safe, efficient, and healthy behaviors and encourage employees to proactively manage their health and wellbeing.

To support this focus area, Amazon is seeking an experienced and innovative person to serve as a Program Manager for AMZL WHS to build and execute programs that create a safe workplace and build a world-class safety culture in the midst of Amazon’s growth. In this role, you will dive deep into Operations processes; identify risks through data and first-hand experience; build and execute programs, and improve processes to eliminate risks; and influence Operations to sustain a culture of safety.

This role will focus on coordinating and leading large, strategic projects within AMZL and will be strongly focused on injury and accident prevention as well as improvements across health, safety and wellness. The WHS Program Manager role will challenge you to push boundaries and lead transformative innovation while having the autonomy to make rapid data-driven decisions and invent on behalf of Operators (operation leaders) and Team Members.

This role is based out of the Seattle, WA, Arlington, VA, or Nashville, TN corporate locations and will require 25% travel to support project deployments, factory acceptance tests (FATs), strategy meetings, and for process improvement Kaizen events.

Responsibilities

  • Develop, review, approve, coordinate, and lead large, strategic projects / programs within Amazon Business Units (BUs) and across different geographies.
  • Build relationships and partner across many organizations to build and execute on new initiatives and roadmaps each year.
  • Work and collaborate with stakeholders and partners to align on project /program goals and resources.
  • Coordinate a portfolio of programs / projects from inception to delivery.
  • Define and implement metrics to measure and communicate program achievements.
  • Compile, manage and report on weekly project metrics and be responsible for leading many high profile meetings to align on project requirements.
  • Communicate the overall program roadmap and provide periodic status updates to the stakeholders, and presenting programs / projects to senior leadership on a regular basis.
  • Provide programs decision support, insights and recommendations through data gathering and information analyzing.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in supply chain, business, engineering, finance or related technical or quantitative field
  • 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

  • Master's degree, or Master's degree in supply chain, business, engineering, finance or related technical or quantitative field
  • 2+ years of driving process improvements experience

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