Program Manager, Transportation Engineering Systems
At Amazon, we're working to be the most customer-centric company on earth. As a Program Manager, Transportation Engineering Systems (TESS), you will work closely with Business Analysts and Business Intelligence Engineers to drive data-driven decision-making and use broad technical skills to build analytics and reporting capabilities.
In this role, the Program Manager, Transportation Engineering Systems manages transportation network configuration by working with different internal stakeholders and systems, to deliver desired business outcomes. We work at the intersection of business and systems. This role will directly influence the decisions and strategy of TESS by gathering customer needs and insights and mining large and diverse data sets. This position will work directly with business leaders and teams along with various stakeholders to track business goals and initiatives.
Key job responsibilities
- Manage full life-cycle of complex cross-functional programs with considerable impact across multiple organizations
- Develop the overall program strategy, tactically driving teams in and outside of your organization to deliver
- Define the program (mission, vision, tenets), set objectives, analyze data and drive improvements that are quantified with metrics
- Work in an ambiguous environment, seek to understand business problems, automation limitations, scaling factors, boundary conditions and reasons behind leadership decisions
- Partner with teams across the business you support and beyond to source, allocate, and coordinate resources
- Partner with customers, internal/external teams, and engineering teams to determine what projects move forward and in what priority order
- Oversee gaps between teams, processes and systems, help teams reduce exposure to classic failure modes (e.g., requirements not sufficiently understood or documented, ineffective cross-team collaboration, long-term impact(s) from third-party solutions, security not considered, insufficient stakeholder review, etc.)
- Solve ambiguous problems and proactively identify and mitigate risks (before they become roadblocks)
- Work with program managers, business leaders and executive team to communicate and impact critical business initiatives
- Develop, implement, and govern KPI reporting for a portfolio of programs, providing visibility to the milestones, and performance across all projects
- Engage other Amazon business units globally to share best practices and improve end to end outcomes for Amazon customers
- Create, communicate, and manage budget for projects
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Nashville, TN, USA
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In this role, the Program Manager, Transportation Engineering Systems manages transportation network configuration by working with different internal stakeholders and systems, to deliver desired business outcomes. We work at the intersection of business and systems. This role will directly influence the decisions and strategy of TESS by gathering customer needs and insights and mining large and diverse data sets. This position will work directly with business leaders and teams along with various stakeholders to track business goals and initiatives.
Key job responsibilities
- Manage full life-cycle of complex cross-functional programs with considerable impact across multiple organizations
- Develop the overall program strategy, tactically driving teams in and outside of your organization to deliver
- Define the program (mission, vision, tenets), set objectives, analyze data and drive improvements that are quantified with metrics
- Work in an ambiguous environment, seek to understand business problems, automation limitations, scaling factors, boundary conditions and reasons behind leadership decisions
- Partner with teams across the business you support and beyond to source, allocate, and coordinate resources
- Partner with customers, internal/external teams, and engineering teams to determine what projects move forward and in what priority order
- Oversee gaps between teams, processes and systems, help teams reduce exposure to classic failure modes (e.g., requirements not sufficiently understood or documented, ineffective cross-team collaboration, long-term impact(s) from third-party solutions, security not considered, insufficient stakeholder review, etc.)
- Solve ambiguous problems and proactively identify and mitigate risks (before they become roadblocks)
- Work with program managers, business leaders and executive team to communicate and impact critical business initiatives
- Develop, implement, and govern KPI reporting for a portfolio of programs, providing visibility to the milestones, and performance across all projects
- Engage other Amazon business units globally to share best practices and improve end to end outcomes for Amazon customers
- Create, communicate, and manage budget for projects
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Nashville, TN, USA
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At Amazon, we're working to be the most customer-centric company on earth. As a Program Manager, Transportation Engineering Systems (TESS), you will work closely with Business Analysts and Business Intelligence Engineers to drive data-driven decision-making and use broad technical skills to build analytics and reporting capabilities.
In this role, the Program Manager, Transportation Engineering Systems manages transportation network configuration by working with different internal stakeholders and systems, to deliver desired business outcomes. We work at the intersection of business and systems. This role will directly influence the decisions and strategy of TESS by gathering customer needs and insights and mining large and diverse data sets. This position will work directly with business leaders and teams along with various stakeholders to track business goals and initiatives.
Key job responsibilities
- Manage full life-cycle of complex cross-functional programs with considerable impact across multiple organizations
- Develop the overall program strategy, tactically driving teams in and outside of your organization to deliver
- Define the program (mission, vision, tenets), set objectives, analyze data and drive improvements that are quantified with metrics
- Work in an ambiguous environment, seek to understand business problems, automation limitations, scaling factors, boundary conditions and reasons behind leadership decisions
- Partner with teams across the business you support and beyond to source, allocate, and coordinate resources
- Partner with customers, internal/external teams, and engineering teams to determine what projects move forward and in what priority order
- Oversee gaps between teams, processes and systems, help teams reduce exposure to classic failure modes (e.g., requirements not sufficiently understood or documented, ineffective cross-team collaboration, long-term impact(s) from third-party solutions, security not considered, insufficient stakeholder review, etc.)
- Solve ambiguous problems and proactively identify and mitigate risks (before they become roadblocks)
- Work with program managers, business leaders and executive team to communicate and impact critical business initiatives
- Develop, implement, and govern KPI reporting for a portfolio of programs, providing visibility to the milestones, and performance across all projects
- Engage other Amazon business units globally to share best practices and improve end to end outcomes for Amazon customers
- Create, communicate, and manage budget for projects
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Nashville, TN, USA
In this role, the Program Manager, Transportation Engineering Systems manages transportation network configuration by working with different internal stakeholders and systems, to deliver desired business outcomes. We work at the intersection of business and systems. This role will directly influence the decisions and strategy of TESS by gathering customer needs and insights and mining large and diverse data sets. This position will work directly with business leaders and teams along with various stakeholders to track business goals and initiatives.
Key job responsibilities
- Manage full life-cycle of complex cross-functional programs with considerable impact across multiple organizations
- Develop the overall program strategy, tactically driving teams in and outside of your organization to deliver
- Define the program (mission, vision, tenets), set objectives, analyze data and drive improvements that are quantified with metrics
- Work in an ambiguous environment, seek to understand business problems, automation limitations, scaling factors, boundary conditions and reasons behind leadership decisions
- Partner with teams across the business you support and beyond to source, allocate, and coordinate resources
- Partner with customers, internal/external teams, and engineering teams to determine what projects move forward and in what priority order
- Oversee gaps between teams, processes and systems, help teams reduce exposure to classic failure modes (e.g., requirements not sufficiently understood or documented, ineffective cross-team collaboration, long-term impact(s) from third-party solutions, security not considered, insufficient stakeholder review, etc.)
- Solve ambiguous problems and proactively identify and mitigate risks (before they become roadblocks)
- Work with program managers, business leaders and executive team to communicate and impact critical business initiatives
- Develop, implement, and govern KPI reporting for a portfolio of programs, providing visibility to the milestones, and performance across all projects
- Engage other Amazon business units globally to share best practices and improve end to end outcomes for Amazon customers
- Create, communicate, and manage budget for projects
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Nashville, TN, USA
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Nashville, TN
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The ideal candidate for this role is willing to work at all levels from the customer business domain knowledge, to the practical application and real-world implementation of processes and measures to address customer pain areas. Knowledge of shrink reduction practices in retail operations is highly desirable. Additionally, the candidate has the ability to complete associated data collection, analysis, presentations, and reports.
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• Formulate appropriate goals for the program and define program scope accordingly
• Devise program solution approach and liaise with GSOTech product team to champion the effective utilization of the GSOTech technology products towards the program goals
• Drive innovation and look around corners while finding better ways to serve our customers.
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• Proactively manage changes in project scopes, identify potential crisis, and devise contingency reaction plans
• Improve and scale our program as customer’s needs increase
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About the team
Amazon’s ability to innovate on behalf of our customers relies on the perspectives and knowledge of people from all backgrounds.
We believe that building a culture that is welcoming and inclusive is integral to people doing their best work. We actively recruit people from diverse backgrounds to build a supportive and inclusive workplace.
Work/Life Balance
Our team puts a high value on work-live balance. It isn’t about how many hours you spend at home or at work; it’s about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Nashville, TN, USA
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This position requires strategic long-term thinking, problem solving skills, deep customer focus, strong self-motivation, and exceptional project management skills. It will involve regular communication with project sponsors and requires you to be detail-oriented and comfortable partnering with cross-functional business and technical teams. To be successful in this role, you need to pair strong analytical skills and a data-driven outlook with strong intuition.
You will own high impact initiative for loss prevention. You obsess over internal and external customers and successfully deliver support and services in a very high growth environment where priorities shift extremely fast. You are also independent and can manage complex initiatives under minimal supervision, continuously triage and prioritize accordingly, communicate clearly and compellingly and deliver high impact outcomes.
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• Create a program charter, and vision
• Assess the key customers and stakeholders and create an engagement and communications plan
• Formulate appropriate goals for the program and define program scope accordingly
• Devise program solution approach and liaise with GSOTech product team to champion the effective utilization of the GSOTech technology products towards the program goals
• Drive innovation and look around corners while finding better ways to serve our customers.
• Deliver quantitative metrics on the status of key projects and goals
• Proactively manage changes in project scopes, identify potential crisis, and devise contingency reaction plans
• Improve and scale our program as customer’s needs increase
• Proactively keep GSO leadership fully informed of customer engagement, status, issues, and activities
• Remain connected with industry trends and events.
• Ability to travel worldwide.
About the team
Amazon’s ability to innovate on behalf of our customers relies on the perspectives and knowledge of people from all backgrounds.
We believe that building a culture that is welcoming and inclusive is integral to people doing their best work. We actively recruit people from diverse backgrounds to build a supportive and inclusive workplace.
Work/Life Balance
Our team puts a high value on work-live balance. It isn’t about how many hours you spend at home or at work; it’s about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
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A day in the life
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- Lead the design, prioritization and effective implementation of programs, in accordance with data/performance signals, that will improve delivery associate safety as they engage with customers and community members while executing deliveries.
- Analyze and present delivery associate safety data, identifying needed areas of performance improvement.
- Generate new and innovative safety program concepts, and partner with Amazon stakeholder teams to define the purpose, scope, business requirements, benefits, and implementation schedule for programs, including automation and scaling, and gain alignment across partner teams.
- Analyze safety performance metrics to draw key business insights, including the design and implementation of new metrics, and metric adoption by partner teams.
- Maintain proactive oversight and partner with Amazon stakeholders to drive continuous improvement relating to delivery associate risk and incident reduction.
- Clearly communicate, both verbally and in writing, to drive buy-in and adoption across a diverse group of stakeholders with competing priorities, including executive presentations.
A day in the life
In this role, the Sr. Program Manager will be accountable for leveraging available data and insights to drive programmatic improvements to reduce delivery associate risk as they engage with customers and community members while executing deliveries. This will include a deep understanding of the available datasets to design and implement new programs and processes to improve delivery associate safety. This role will regularly work with a wide variety of partner teams, both non-technical and technical, to establish and refine mechanisms that improve performance. You will operate with autonomy, demonstrating high judgment in decisions with broad implications.
About the team
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We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
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