Senior Program Manager, Retrofits, Expansions and Initiatives

Amazon.com Inc

Nashville, TN

JOB DETAILS
SKILLS
Analysis Skills, Change Requests/Orders, Construction, Corrective Action, Cross-Functional, Diversity, Diving, Establish Priorities, Finance, Leadership, Operations Processes, Problem Solving Skills, Project Planning, Project/Program Management, Purchasing/Procurement, Requirements Management, Retrofit, Risk Analysis, Risk Management, Safety Compliance, Startup, Time Management, Topology
LOCATION
Nashville, TN
POSTED
19 days ago

The REI team serves as a centralized planning and execution engine for all retrofits, expansions, and network initiatives across NA Last Mile Delivery Stations. The team owns intaking a business request, translating validated business needs and site-driven opportunities into executable deployment plans that align with OP1 and OP2 goals as well as site driven requests.

REI partners cross-functionally with Operations, Design, Preconstruction, Construction, Startup, Finance, and PMO teams to intake, prioritize, and sequence projects through a standardized stage-gate process. This includes consolidating fragmented intake channels into a single, structured pipeline to improve visibility, reduce redundancy, and ensure consistent decision-making across the network.

The team is responsible for balancing network capacity, cost, and speed by optimizing existing infrastructure-driving initiatives such as capacity maximization and site enhancements ahead of peak demand. REI also manages key dependencies including topology plans, installation capacity, and long-lead procurement timelines to ensure realistic and achievable deployment schedules.

Key job responsibilities

  • Drive process, capacity, performance, technology, compliance, and safety-related program objectives - define business requirements, translate requirements into project plans, manage implementation activities across a large group of stakeholders, develop and execute rollout plans and ongoing support.
  • Identify, assess and mitigate risks, drive resolution of critical issues, provide escalation management, anticipate and make tradeoffs and propose corrective actions to keep initiatives moving forward.
  • Collaborate and build relationships with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless execution and process excellence.
  • Review new change requests from program and operations stakeholders against existing standards.
  • Identify and address customer and business pain points by actively deep diving into data and operational processes and working with cross-functional teams.
  • Schedule and moderate multiple weekly standing meetings with internal teams to obtain or share information and approve changes; coordinate information between various teams in the organization.

A day in the life

On a daily basis you will spend time engaging with internal and external stakeholders to ensure the change in business is tracked and running according to plan from initiation, assessment, development, analysis, and execution until closure of the change. This role will guide business owners, program owners, change requesters and leadership on high-judgement decisions in the process. You will help deliver success and remove roadblocks by collaborating on creative solutions and setting new standards for in-flight and future launches.

About the team

This is a team that has diverse backgrounds and knowledge sets that works closely together to collaborate and offer new ways of thinking. The willingness to share information and ideas is a key success to this team and its growth. We get things done, together!

About the Company

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Amazon.com Inc

At Amazon, we don’t wait for the next big idea to present itself. We envision the shape of impossible things and then we boldly make them reality. So far, this mindset has helped us achieve some incredible things. Let’s build new systems, challenge the status quo, and design the world we want to live in. We believe the work you do here will be the best work of your life.

Wherever you are in your career exploration, Amazon likely has an opportunity for you. Our research scientists and engineers shape the future of natural language understanding with Alexa. Fulfillment center associates around the globe send customer orders from our warehouses to doorsteps. Product managers set feature requirements, strategy, and marketing messages for brand new customer experiences. And as we grow, we’ll add jobs that haven’t been invented yet.

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At Amazon, it’s always “Day 1.” Now, what does this mean and why does it matter? It means that our approach remains the same as it was on Amazon’s very first day – to make smart, fast decisions, stay nimble, invent, and stay focused on delighting our customers. In our 2016 shareholder letter, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos shared his thoughts on how to keep up a Day 1 company mindset. “Staying in Day 1 requires you to experiment patiently, accept failures, plant seeds, protect saplings, and double down when you see customer delight,” he wrote. “A customer-obsessed culture best creates the conditions where all of that can happen.” You can read the full letter here

Our Leadership Principles
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COMPANY SIZE
10,000 employees or more
INDUSTRY
Retail
FOUNDED
1994
WEBSITE
http://Amazon.com/militaryroles