PM, AGL Procurement, AGL Procurement
DESCRIPTION
At Amazon, we're working to be the most customer-centric company on Earth. To get there, we need exceptionally talented, bright, and driven people. The Amazon Fresh Grocery team is seeking a customer-obsessed Program Manager, with a proven track record of delivering results, to own fixed cost optimization for grocery fulfillment centers and grocery distribution centers. The ideal candidate is a data-driven self-starter with experience in project management, an interest in generating cost reduction solutions, and a drive for challenging the status quo on processes that have been around since inception of Amazon Fresh.
The program manager will be a pillar of the financial strategy working group that works closely with both internal and external partners to create and propose strategies and concepts to hit profitability goals for the Fresh business. This will require a willingness to dive into the details, solve new problems as they arise, leverage high judgment and gut instinct, and look around corners. You will own fixed cost financial progress GFCs (grocery fulfillment centers) – understanding financial opportunities, creating a strategy to hit financial goals, and highlighting risks for senior management. This role is inherently cross-functional, working closely with field operations leaders, finance, procurement, maintenance, category managers, accounting, and executive teams.
Key job responsibilities
- Develop, execute, and optimize an end-to-end strategy to reduce fixed cost and hit profitability goals for assigned regions.
- Work closely with procurement, field leadership, maintenance, finance, and ops integration teams to meet business priorities
- Work autonomously in an ambiguous environment, seeking to understand business problems, automation limitations, scaling factors, boundary conditions and reasons behind leadership decisions
- Develop data-driven reduction solutions utilizing raw data sources
- Support in-depth business reviews and present results and insights to key stakeholders
- Earn trust at all levels through excellent communication and collaboration
- Prioritize effectively in a quickly changing and ambiguous environment
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 2+ years of program or project management experience
- Knowledge of Microsoft Excel at an advanced level, including: pivot tables, macros, index/match, vlookup, VBA, data links, etc.
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
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