Risk Manager, MEA Compliance & Safety

- 4+ years of compliance program management, legal, governance, audit, risk/loss prevention, or equivalent experience
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent
- Experience handling confidential information

Our vision is to protect customers from products that are illegal, unsafe, or non-compliant. The Compliance and Safety team for the Middle East, Africa, and Türkiye Region is looking for a Risk Manager to manage our product and food compliance policies to protect our customers from non-compliant products for the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and South African Stores.

This role is responsible for creating and driving a roadmap of risk policies and controls across business, legal, compliance, operations, tech, and other cross-functional teams globally. This role owns program level metrics and ensures success by leading risk initiatives, prioritization discussions, and reporting.

Key job responsibilities

1. Build and maintain strong relationships with key internal stakeholders globally, including Legal, product, operations, and Category Management teams to ensure alignment on compliance strategies and initiatives.
2. Partner with cross-functional teams to define clear project requirements, establish timelines, manage dependencies, and ensure successful and timely execution.
3. Identify, design, and implement process improvements to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of the compliance program, leveraging automation and data analytics where possible to eliminate manual processes and create scalable solutions.
4. Define key performance indicators (KPIs) and success metrics, develop reporting mechanisms, and regularly communicate progress, risks, and mitigation plans to cross-functional leadership.
5. Deep dive specific compliance requirements (e.g. external regulatory and internal Amazon policy requirements) and make data-driven compliance solutions.
6. Identify needs for scalable tech solutions and influence stakeholders to drive availability and effectiveness.
7. Develop and improve mechanisms for continuous improvement.

The Risk Manager is a key driver of Amazon's compliance and safety programs. The role works across multiple global stakeholders, including operations and tech, to drive a large portfolio of key deliverables that are tracked at an executive level.

About the team

The MEA Compliance & Safety team is charged with protecting Amazon customers from illegal, prohibited, and unsafe products. Our customers trust us to ensure a trustworthy shopping experience and provide a safe shopping environment for them and their families.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you identify with having a disability, or other support need, please let me know if an accommodation/adjustment would be beneficial to you during the application and hiring process.

Desired Candidate Profile

1. 3+ years of program requirements definition and data and metrics leveraging to drive improvements experience.
2. Professional auditing qualification, or similar risk or compliance credentials.
3. Experience with SQL and Excel.

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