Program Planning & Scheduling Analyst, ALG Scheduling & Risk Mgmt

Are you ready to get in on the ground floor of Amazon's long-term initiative to design, launch and maintain a constellation of Low Earth Orbit satellites to provide low-latency, high-speed broadband connectivity to unserved and underserved communities around the world?

It's Day 1 for Amazon's next billion-dollar business and the Amazon Leo for Government business is looking for an entrepreneurial minded Program Planning & Scheduling Analyst to work in a start-up environment who is passionate about technology, who thinks/acts globally, and has the ability to create and implement solutions, processes and controls with a focus on the public sector.

The ALG team is focused on Government customers around the world, including U.S. DoD and other national security customers.

The successful candidate will be responsible for executing day-to-day program planning & scheduling tasks within ALG, providing qualitative and quantitative data analysis for program performance management, ensuring the business meets critical deliverables, program schedules (Integrated Master Schedule), as well as risk and opportunity tracking, management, and mitigation.

This leader will work cross-functionally alongside the program finance team, as well as the program management and engineering teams to ensure Government-funded programs are tracked and performed on cost and schedule.

While still in the start-up phase, ALG will be tracking performance metrics from an internal management perspective for program performance.

The program planning organization will have responsibility for aligning our product roadmaps with ALG availability, ensuring we have products Government customers can use when Amazon Leo service comes online.

The Program Planning & Scheduling Analyst will also be responsible for creating integrated schedules that lay in both government program commitments as well as internal deadlines, and then align with Leo commercial on product availability and dependencies.

Key job responsibilities

Work with ALG program managers, engineering staff, and finance to standardize development of ALG program schedules (resource loaded)

• Support ALG program managers and capture managers on development of proposal schedules in an ambiguous environment (outlining tasks, milestones, dependencies, and deliverables).
• Work with ALG program managers and engineering staff on scheduling approaches for program dependencies
• Maintain processes that automate program planning & scheduling in support of RFx responses, new program stand-up, and annual budget submission
• Maintain integrated ALG portfolio schedule that tracks key milestones and dependencies across all ALG programs
• Support building "what-if" scheduling tools/processes that support ALG program risk and opportunity assessments and program trade studies