Snr. Program Manager, WHS ESG (Environmental, social, and governance) Program Manager
DESCRIPTION
As the safety ESG (Environmental, social, and governance) Program Manager for the EU WHS team, you will lead the ESG reporting and cross-business unit coordination to drive Amazon's safety and risk management initiatives. This role is critical in ensuring Amazon meets its safety and sustainability commitments and regulatory obligations across Europe.
In this position, you will be responsible for evaluating and strengthening Amazon's ESG risk governance practices to address key safety and regulatory requirements. This includes the EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), as well as other emerging climate and ESG standards.
Senior Programme Managers have significant responsibilities, and you’ll deal with complex challenges with creativity, innovation, and leadership. With a responsibility extending beyond process improvements, you could also contribute to improving other areas of the business, like diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Key job responsibilities
• Assess the effectiveness of existing safety and risk management practices, tools, and governance mechanisms to meet ESG reporting obligations and manage safety-related risks.
• Develop and drive the implementation of a multi-year strategic roadmap for the ESG safety risk governance program. This includes creating relevant policies, standards, procedures, and guidance documentation.
• Facilitate data gathering workshops, surveys, and interviews to collect and refine requirements for ESG safety risk governance frameworks across Amazon's EU operations.
• Provide updates and recommendations to senior leadership on the progress and maturity of the safety risk governance program.
• Collaborate closely with several business units and corporate functions to embed and strengthen safety and risk management practices in alignment with the program's strategic objectives.
• Partner with worldwide sustainability subject matter experts to continuously enhance the ESG safety risk governance program and ensure alignment with evolving regulations.
A day in the life
As Senior Programme Manager, you’ll drive and manage the implementation of creative, data-driven change in Amazon, leading improvement projects and programmes. You’ll use strategic thinking to define and implement an efficient project plan.
About the team
Workplace Health and Safety plays a crucial role in keeping our people mentally and physically well at work. Our team works with managers, associates and local governments across our sites, making sure we’re complying with Amazon’s policies and legal regulations, and that our workplaces are safe.
There is a range of opportunities within the team, from Health and Safety Technicians to Programme Managers. You’ll play a part in developing, implementing and upholding our safety and wellbeing standards. You could work on a variety of projects alongside colleagues from across the business, ranging from equipment and process inspections to assessing processes.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor in HSE, ESG, Engineering with a major in Sustainability, Engineering or equivalent certification
- Experience in program or project management in Health and Safety, ESG or Sustainability
- Experience using data and metrics to determine and drive improvements
- Experience owning program strategy, end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership
- Able to use SQL to query databases and understand how to analyze and map business processes (e.g. BPMN, Prince2 etc.).
- Have a basic understanding of data modelling and structuring concepts.
- Know how to extract and manipulate data sets
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Preferred qualifications are not required to apply for a position at Amazon. If you have all the basic qualifications above, we’d love to hear from you.
- You have knowledge about ISO standards related to sustainability matters such as ISO14000/26000/50001, it will be considered as an advantage
- Master's degree in HSE, ESG, Engineering with a major in Sustainability, Engineering or equivalent certification management, business administration, economics, engineering, marketing
- Experience leading process improvements
- Experience working directly on ESG or sustainability-related topics and initiatives
- In-depth knowledge of life-cycle risk governance (assessment, mitigation, monitoring, reporting, and assurance)
- Experience addressing boundary-spanning safety and risk issues across global operations
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