Sr. Program Mgr, Amazon Flex, Last Mile, WW Flex Delivery Partner Experience
DESCRIPTION
At Amazon, we're working to be the most Customer-centric company on earth. One customer experience that we’re constantly looking to take to a new level is how to coordinate the delivery of their orders. Our goal is to exceed the expectations of all our customers by ensuring that their orders, no matter how large or small, are delivered where and when they need them, as quickly, accurately, and cost effectively as possible. To meet this goal, Amazon is continually striving to innovate and provide best in class service levels through the introduction of pioneering new logistics products and services, significantly complimented by entrepreneurs like Amazon Delivery Service Partners and Amazon Flex. Amazon Flex crowdsources independent contractors – called Delivery Partners (DPs) – to coordinate deliveries to our customers. With Amazon Flex, individuals can now be their own boss delivering Amazon packages. Amazon Flex is powered by a mobile app that works in concert with our advanced systems, allowing partners to sign in, grab an offer for a time, check out a map of the location, and more.
The Worldwide Flex DP Experience team is looking for a dynamic and experienced Sr. Program Manager to join us and help improve the DP experience. A successful Program Manager must be able to work independently, be comfortable with ambiguity, and be able to influence internal/external partners at all levels of the organization. This role will particularly suit someone with strong analytical abilities, relationship building skills, and stellar project management capabilities. To be successful, you must also have very strong communication skills, both written and verbal, as you will own communicating program progress very crisply in various business reviews.
This Sr. Program Manager will lead the scope and help us answer questions, like: how do you improve the experience of hundreds of thousands DPs through product, and program interventions? What innovative products, and strategies will help solve their pain points? How can we substantiate those pain-points through in-depth deep dives and secure leadership alignment across tech and business? If these types of questions sound interesting, we want to hear from you.
This role require formulating strategies driven through in-depth analysis and due diligence considering legal, product, program, public relation, and communication point of view. Few of the changes this role will recommend are irreversible in nature and will impact millions of DPs, so you will analyze data and insights from various channels to diagnose process issues, identify improvement opportunities, and partner with technology teams to deliver new features or tools. Stakeholder management is a substantial element of the role and daily bandwidth. This role will manage large, complex initiatives, deal with ambiguity, balance speed with quality, and advocate on behalf of the customer to provide high-performance solutions.
Key job responsibilities
• Define worldwide Amazon Flex DP experience roadmap and operational plan to improve DP experience.
• Leveraging various deep dives, prioritize actions to improve DP satisfaction, engagement and commitment to FLEX programs. You will be responsible for structuring the findings into a business case that supports the project plan and defines the next steps.
• Lead and deliver innovative product/operational initiatives to drive step changes in DP experience and remove DP pain points and barriers
• Directly influence and collaborate with WW product and technology teams
• Own the operational performance and all metrics/KPIs for DP satisfaction with other organizations in Amazon
• You will be required to have clear, precise, and regular communication with all stakeholders. This includes ongoing project/program status reports as well as capturing requirements.
• You will retrieve and analyze data and insights to solve business problems at their root, stepping back to understand the broader context
• You will monitor project execution and ensure that the project delivery is to the appropriate levels of quality and in line with its target date, ensuring the overall integrity within the program
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ 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
- Bachelor's degree
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 2+ 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
- Experience in complex problem solving, and working in a tight schedule environment
- Knowledge of Excel at an intermediate level (e.g., pivot tables & charts, multiple criteria lookups, nested logical/IF formulas, data cleansing, array formulas, etc.)
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $104,100/year in our lowest geographic market up to $185,000/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.