Senior PM, Partner Experience, Hub Delivery

Amazon is looking for a Senior Program Manager with a strong delivery record and proven project management experience to own strategic, tactical, cross-functional and technology projects and programs across multiple verticals. This role requires scoping and creating project plans, developing processes, coordinating and driving execution, and communicating to senior management on status, risks and process/product changes. Cross-team coordination, project management and executive presentation skills are essential. The ideal candidate will leverage extensive project management experience, combined with deep analytical capabilities and a keen sense of innovation, to lead complex projects from conception to completion.

We are actively seeking an experienced Senior Program Manager with a strong background in strategic planning to lead key initiatives that align with our long-term business objectives. This role is ideal for individuals who excel in transforming strategic visions into actionable plans and guiding those plans to fruition. In this role, you will be responsible for program strategies, including the development and execution of detailed project roadmaps. Your expertise in strategic planning will be essential in identifying critical business opportunities and challenges, and in devising innovative solutions to address them. You will work closely with various internal teams and stakeholders, harmonizing different perspectives and ensuring cohesive efforts towards common goals.

Key job responsibilities

• Manage and oversee various cross-functional programs, ensuring successful delivery.
• Develop and refine program strategies, effectively leading and motivating teams.
• Set clear objectives for programs, leveraging data analytics to drive improvements and achieve metrics.
• Navigate and resolve ambiguities in business scenarios, applying creative problem-solving skills.
• Foster collaboration with internal and external partners to optimize resource allocation and project success.
• Evaluate and prioritize projects in conjunction with customer needs and technical team inputs.
• Bridge gaps in team dynamics, processes, and systems, preventing common project pitfalls.
• Identify and mitigate risks, preventing them from escalating into major issues.
• Regularly communicate with senior managers, business leaders, and other stakeholders to support key business initiatives.
• Develop, implement, and oversee KPI reporting for a program portfolio, ensuring clear visibility of milestones and project performance.
• Manage and communicate project budgets effectively.

A day in the life

• Identify areas for improvement in on road and off road experience from Partner feedback and data.
• Develop a keen understanding of the experience of Delivery Associates, combining data with anecdotes to develop perspective at the forefront of program/product development.
• Develop programs and think big to continuously deliver improvements WW to provide the best experience to our Hub Partners.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Build collaborative, influential internal and external relationships with Product, Program, Field teams and other critical stakeholders to gather information, set action plans, and monitor stakeholder execution to improve the Hub Partner experience and program executions.
• Be a voice in the room for program and process development in the wider org that may affect Hub Partner experience.
• Develop Scalable Engagement & Recognition Programs: Define core strategy to develop an engaged culture that connects Hub Partners with Amazon.
• Develop and prioritize roadmap for launching engagement and reward/recognition programs; build and execute these programs at scale.
• Communication: Create and own recurring communications to business leaders and key stakeholders on core programs and opportunities to improve Partner engagement, satisfaction, and retention.

About the team

At Amazon, we are working to be the most Customer-centric company on earth. A customer experience that we are constantly looking to take to a new level is how we fulfill and deliver customers" orders. We are doing so by building a world class last mile operation capable of exceeding the expectations of our customers by ensuring that their orders are delivered as quickly, accurately, and cost effectively as possible.

The Hub Delivery product allows local small businesses to partner with Amazon to provide flexible and cost-effective delivery service to delight customers globally. This is an emerging Amazon Logistics (AMZL) delivery channel, and is on an exponential growth trajectory globally.

Amazon is seeking an exceptional leader who will be part of a start-up group that's defining and building products and services capabilities supporting Amazon's current and future last mile initiatives. The role will use customer, operations and technology insights to identify customer needs, and build the product that delights our partner and end-customers. The role will identify non-linear product opportunities in a cross-functional environment (design, ops, finance, legal, tax) and define customer and product success criteria. This role would go on to drive the development and launch of the product with technology teams and would often make experience/ops/tech trade-offs throughout the process. This will be a high visibility role, meaning that the optimal candidate will be comfortable driving critical business decisions in fast paced, and often ambiguous environment.

A successful candidate will be customer focused, highly analytical, resourceful, a big thinker, a strong writer, and able to operate at all levels of the organization.