Program Manager I
DESCRIPTION
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN), a Fortune 500 company based in Seattle, opened its online retail in July 1995 and today, stands as one of the world’s largest internet retailer. Amazon.com, Inc. seeks to be Earth's most customer-centric company, where customers can find and discover anything they might want to buy online, and endeavors to offer its customers the lowest possible prices. We operate retail websites in 20 countries, offering millions of products in more than 40 categories worldwide, and we still like to work hard, have fun and make history.
Do you want to be part of the team that ensures Amazon keeps its “best price” promise across millions of products worldwide? Does the challenge of driving decisions in a dynamic environment excite you? Do you love solving complex business problems using technology? Are you seeking an environment where you can drive innovation? Are you a passionate self-starter? If the answer to the above questions is a resounding “YES”, read on!
A successful candidate will have an established background in driving a complex program portfolio with considerable impact, excellent program management, problem solving and communication skills and be comfortable interacting with technical and non-technical stakeholders at all levels. The candidate should have a history of driving deep insights from complex data, have exceptional business judgement including financial acumen to quickly assess the viability of key decisions, ability to write compelling business documents and drive outcomes for senior leadership at Amazon. The ability to influence cross functionally and across the organization, at all levels, will be absolutely critical to success in this role.
Key job responsibilities
• Drive end-to-end high impact and high visibility programs that impact pricing and thereby customer experience on Amazon
• Analyze data and dive deep into processes to derive business critical insights for enhancing systems
• Write compelling business documents and drive outcomes for Senior Leadership at Amazon
• Build a data oriented culture, adopt technical solutions and drive process improvement projects to achieve operational and business goals.
• Collaborate with Tech, Product, Operations and Category teams to ensure timely deliverables for key projects
A day in the life
As a Program Manager, you will be working on high impact, high visibility programs that directly impacts our customers. You will be required to ideate, analyze data, generate insights, develop proof of concepts, write compelling business case and gain agreement from Leaders across levels & functions, implement the solution. You will be required to collaborate with leaders from Tech, Operations, Business, Finance, Legal teams to drive the programs from ideation to implementation effectively.
About the team
CMT (Competitor Monitoring Team) is an integral part of Pricing organization enabling Amazon’s pricing strategy and operations. With the primary focus to provide on-time and accurate competitive pricing inputs to help make great pricing decisions, CMT also supports the WW Promotions team in efficiently delivering products that host deals and promotions for Amazon’s customers. The tasks handled by this group have a direct impact on customers' buying decisions and Amazon’s topline & profitability
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Chennai, TN, IND
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 2+ years of program or project management experience
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Knowledge of Lean principles and DMAIC methodology
- Experience in MS Access and SQL
- Experience in requirement gathering and ability to write clear and detailed requirement document