Compliance And Risk Manager jobs in United States

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 unsafe products in the MEA region.

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

• Build and maintain strong relationships with key internal stakeholders globally, including Legal, Product Safety Policy, Operations, and Category Management teams to ensure alignment on compliance & safety strategies and initiatives
• Partner with cross-functional teams to define clear project requirements, establish timelines, manage dependencies, and ensure successful and timely execution
• Own and drive initiatives to proactively improve Selling Partner experience, focusing on reducing friction by streamlining processes, simplifying requirements, and enhancing communication
• Identify, design, and implement process improvements to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of the compliance & safety program, leveraging automation and data analytics where possible to eliminate manual processes and create scalable solutions
• Define key performance indicators (KPIs) and success metrics, develop reporting mechanisms, and regularly communicate progress, risks, and mitigation plans to cross-functional leadership.
• Deep dive specific product safety and compliance requirements (e.g. external regulatory and internal Amazon policy requirements) and make data-driven compliance solution
• Develop and improve mechanisms for continuous improvement on product safety, compliance and customer trust.

A day in the life

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.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 6+ years of compliance, audit or risk management experience
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office products and applications at an advanced level
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Project Management Professional (PMP) or equivalent certification
• Experience leveraging technology and implementing lean principles / Six Sigma methodologies to drive process improvements or equivalent
• Master's degree or equivalent

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