Sr Risk Manager, On Road Safety, GRS Governance, SRA Governance

About the role

Amazon’s Workplace Health and Safety (WHS) Global Road Safety (GRS) team is seeking a dynamic, passionate self-starter to join the GRS SRA Governance team as a Senior Program Manager supporting the Americas region. This role focuses on identifying, analyzing, and mitigating safety risks, as well as ensuring the performance and effectiveness of safety risk controls to enable Amazon to safely scale as the largest package delivery service globally.

The Senior Program Manager will build safety risk assessments and management protocols, create metrics to evaluate risk control effectiveness, oversee qualitative and quantitative risk assessments, and apply knowledge of risk remediation, mitigation, and control processes. The role requires scoping large projects, managing safety risk assessment timelines, identifying safety gaps, and communicating safety risks to senior management. Cross-team coordination, project management, executive presentation skills, process improvement, and a proven history of delivering results are essential for success. A bias for action and comfort with ambiguity are must-haves, as the role often involves carving a path forward in uncertain situations.

Responsibilities

• Lead safety risk assessment and management framework development in partnership with cross-functional teams.
• Identify control improvements and build partnerships to resolve identified risks.
• Document controls testing and risk assessment/management findings.
• Monitor risk management and assurance methodologies from a process improvement perspective as the program grows.
• Conduct internal training to educate teams in safety risk management processes.
• Review and inform transportation safety-related policies to drive policy improvements.
• Conduct safety risk assessments for compliance with On-The-Road (OTR) safety regulations, policies, standards, and procedures.
• Analyze data to identify trends and provide recommendations to proactively control safety risks.
• Convey findings, including escalations, to stakeholders in a clear, easily digestible format.
• Monitor continuous process improvement; use metrics to measure policy quality and opportunities.
• Anticipate safety challenges and obstacles the business could face and proactively develop plans to address them.

A day in the life

The GRS SRA Governance team leads safety risk assessment completion and internal guardrail processes. You will collaborate with the Global Field Execution (GFE) team, customers, and additional stakeholders to complete Safety Risk Assessments, engaging with senior leadership and field Amazonians to drive a consistent global safety risk management approach. This role has a direct impact on program launches, pilots, and safety initiatives.

About the team

The SRA Governance team leads the world's safest transportation network, protecting the lives of people on the road everywhere. Using a data-driven approach, Global Road Safety fosters the safe mobility of drivers, partners, community members, and other vulnerable road users. The team aligns all on-road standards and procedures globally and innovates creatively to enhance safety for customers and the community. As a responsible global community member, Amazon improves global transportation safety culture by influencing internal and external stakeholders to create a safer and more sustainable transportation system.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of compliance, audit, or risk management experience.
• 5+ years of program or project management experience.
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office products and applications.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent.
• 50% minimum travel requirement.
• Experience in transportation and supply chain.

Preferred Qualifications

• Project Management Professional (PMP) or equivalent certification.
• Experience leveraging technology and implementing lean principles/Six Sigma methodologies to drive process improvements.
• Master’s degree or equivalent.

Pay

The base salary range for this position varies by location:

• Nashville, TN: $109,000 - $155,400 USD annually.
• Arlington, VA: $121,200 - $163,900 USD annually.
• Bellevue, WA: $121,200 - $163,900 USD annually.

Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments, restricted stock units (RSUs), and comprehensive benefits such as health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance, and optional supplemental life plans), an Employee Assistance Program (EAP), mental health support, a medical advice line, flexible spending accounts, adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits.