Senior Risk Manager , Transportation Risk and Compliance

Amazon; London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in logistics and transportation is seeking a Senior Risk Manager to drive compliance and manage vendor relationships. In this role, you will leverage analytical skills to identify risks, influence stakeholder strategies, and enhance operational effectiveness across diverse teams. You must possess strong leadership and communication skills to thrive in a complex environment.

Qualifications

• 6+ years project management experience.
• 4+ years of 3P Provider Vendor Management.
• Experience in the transportation industry.

Responsibilities

• Manage relationships with key partners and vendors for compliance.
• Drive strategic risk management initiatives across teams.
• Analyze risks based on regulatory requirements and recommend strategies.

Skills

Analytical decision making

Excellent written and verbal communication

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Microsoft Office (advanced)

Job description

*This role can be located in any Amazon corporate office across Europe including Luxembourg, London, Paris, Milan, Madrid, Berlin.*

The ideal candidate:

TRC is seeking a Senior Risk Manager with a strong background managing Third Party (3P) Payroll and Time and Attendance data and partnership management. The ideal candidate will be an analytical leader with Risk Management experience with strong background in 3P Payroll and Time & Attendance Provider Vendor Management. You make data-driven decisions in complex, technical, transportation and/or regulatory environments. The individual needs strong communication skills, the experience to influence (both up and across) and support cross-functional stakeholder groups across all levels of the organization. The ideal candidate takes initiative and demonstrates ownership in driving business goals, while being agile to manage change.
This position will require high level strategic thinking to deep-dive analytical problem solving. The Senior Risk Manager will work closely with teams across Amazon transportation businesses to recommend strategies, lead projects, and develop compliance frameworks. The ideal candidate will manage relationships with key partners and vendors, identify improvement opportunities, analyze risks based on regulatory requirements, drive key initiatives in the space, and manage communications with internal and external stakeholders. You must be a strong project manager who can drive selection, standardization, and systematic controls through 3P providers. You are comfortable dealing with ambiguity and enjoy working on different problems every day. You must be an excellent writer who can succinctly communicate complicated payroll issues in business terms. You are a leader who can influence people, prioritize, communicate clearly and compellingly and understand how to deliver results within a strong and talented team, as well as being able to drive change across other organizations.

Your risk program management practices set a great example to others. You routinely and efficiently deliver the right things. You define clear goals and objectives. You drive crisp decisions in your program area about what projects move forward and in what priority order. You proactively identify risks and bring them to the attention of your team and stakeholders with plans for mitigation before they become roadblocks.


Key job responsibilities
• Self-starter, possess flexibility to work in a fast-changing environment and ambiguous situations
• Analytical decision making with a demonstrated ability to drive issues to completion
• Enthusiasm to work hard and make history
• Proven history of having worked effectively across cross-functional teams and business functions
• Attention to detail and a demonstrated ability to take ownership of cross-organizational problems and drive them to resolution
• Excellent written and verbal communications
• Track and report metrics on 3PP performance to internal stakeholders, as well as continually monitor, analyze, identify gaps and influence remediation to maximize increased compliance impact; and manage and support escalations communications, as needed. Analyze quantitative and qualitative data, report appropriate level of information based on the audience, prioritize and make tradeoffs, and balance the business needs while listening to the voice of the customer is critical.
• Validate the effectiveness of workflows and mechanisms for handling risk assessments, escalations, driving process improvement efforts with the objective to eliminate future escalations.
• Track and communicate results at the senior leadership level.
• Influence payroll vendor selection


A day in the life
About the team: Amazon’s Transportation Risk & Compliance team identifies and mitigates risk in a rapidly growing and complex, global environment. To support the business, our primary mission is to perform independent and objective, risk-based assessments of Amazon business partners’ activities and related controls with the goal of improving operations, compliance, risk management and overall success of the program. The Data and Automation Risk Manager is responsible for defining, managing and implementing the insights and automation strategy for EU frequent risk-based inspections and expand 3PP compliance beyond just EU, to provide our stakeholders with the relevant trends and information om compliance to support the right business strategy. This Risk Manager will create metrics and proactively seek out new and improved data/ mechanisms for visibility of risk, and control and effectiveness. The Risk Manager is in charge of defining programs which are in line with the risk strategy, regulations, and organizational objectives.

Additionally, this role will work closely with Amazon Logistics and Transportation businesses, Compliance, Legal, Finance, and HR teams to implement world-class customer-centric compliance & risk management tools and processes.

If you are motivated to dive into the detail and take ownership, we have the career you’re looking for!

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- Knowledge of Microsoft Office products and applications at an advanced level
- Experience in compliance, audit or risk management
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- • 6+ years project management experience.
- • 4+ years of 3P Provider Vendor Management
- • Operations, payroll and/or audit management
- • Experience in the transportation industry
- • Continuous improvement background (i.e. 6-sigma, ISO, Total Quality, etc.).

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