Senior Program Manager (KSA nat), Key Initiatives
DESCRIPTION
Amazon is seeking a Senior Program Manager (PM) to join the Entertainment Media team.
Senior Program Managers serve in a pivotal role, leading strategic initiatives, partner engagements and drive new projects development to aid business growth
Successful candidates must work well in a fast-paced and often ambiguous arena, and will be rewarded by working alongside highly collaborative and entrepreneurial colleagues in an environment that feels much more “startup” than “big company”.
Key job responsibilities:
Primary responsibilities of this role:
- Ideate solutions to solve key customer problems by developing innovative solutions and test through "proof of concept" approach
- Develop full scale solutions for solutions that prove successful well in the testing phase
- Establishing strong partner relationships with internal business stakeholders; building a strong understanding of strategic business direction, requirements and priorities across assigned suppliers and/or spend categories.
- Developing growth strategies to deliver against ambitious objectives for the category
- Build collaborative partnerships with external stakeholders and drive the right business inputs while delivering above par vendor experience
- Drive automation and feature development for the program working closely with Tech/ product teams
- Work with business and finance leaders to identify and drive savings and frugal growth
- Prepare and hold business reviews with stakeholders to review vendor performance, future opportunities, and/or challenges.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 7+ 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
- 5+ 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