Senior Program Manager, Global Catalog Operations

Amazon; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon in Bengaluru, Karnataka is seeking a Senior Program Manager to lead highly complex cross-functional initiatives across tech and non-tech teams. You will drive clarity in ambiguity, define requirements from data insights, and escalate risks to leadership to ensure timely delivery.

The role requires strong communication, analytical skills, and a bias to get results in a fast-paced environment, with a focus on delivering customer impact.

Qualifications

• 5+ years cross-functional experience with tech and non-tech teams.
• 5+ years program or project management experience.
• 5+ years delivering cross-functional projects.
• Experience defining program requirements and using data to determine improvements

Responsibilities

• Drive projects and programs requiring collaboration across varied internal & external teams to ensure deliverables are achieved as per plan.
• Communicate updates on issues, status, and business drivers during reviews.
• Analyze fragment datasets to discern insights and inform decisions.
• Prepare documents highlighting customer pain points, opportunities, and data insights for leadership decisions.
• Monitor potential issues and proactively escalate risks to leadership.
• Develop performance metrics to drive business results.
• Identify and eliminate root causes of defects to drive efficiency.
• Elevate problems to owners across teams and follow through on resolutions.
• Work within various time constraints to meet critical business needs and ensure service requirements are met.

Skills

Cross-functional leadership

Program management

Data analysis

Stakeholder management

Education

Master's degree or MBA

Job description

Amazon is seeking highly skilled and motivated program manager for Catalog Support Operations team. As a Senior Program Manager, you manage significantly complex initiatives that cut across multiple teams. You drive clarity in extremely ambiguous situations, where even the strategy itself may not be defined. You work with multiple teams across various orgs in Amazon to drive programs to closure. You make trade off calls and proactively escalat potential risks to leadership and strive to put contingencies in place. You do all of these tasks by leveraging your strong analytical skills and ability to analyze and derive insights from data. This job will require exceptional communication and interpersonal skills while having the ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment and exercise sound judgment where clear guidelines may not exist. An ideal candidate in this role is a force multiplier who solves complex logistics challenges and possess a bias to get things done and deliver results.

Key job responsibilities

• Drive projects and programs that require collaboration across varied internal & external teams to ensure dependent deliverables are achieved as per the plan with due quality
• Excellent communication, both verbal and written as you will be required to convey updates on issues, operational status and business drivers as needed throughout the activity cycle and during daily/weekly reviews
• Data-driven and deal with fragment datasets to discern insights
• Write effective documents to highlight customer pain points, opportunity size, data insights, customer/stakeholder anecdotes and recommendations to drive executive decision making
• Proactively monitor, identify and prevent potential issues
• Develop performance metrics to assist with driving business results
• Lead initiatives to identify and eliminate root causes of defects in order to drive efficiency
• Must be able to systematically elevate problems or variance in the operating plan to the relevant owners and teams and follow through on the resolutions to ensure they are delivered.
• Work within various time constraints to meet critical business needs, while measuring and identifying activities performed and ensuring service requirements are met.

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of working cross functionally with tech and non-tech teams experience
• 5+ years of program or project management experience
• 5+ years of delivering cross functional projects experience
• Experience defining program requirements and using data and metrics to determine improvements

Preferred Qualifications

• 2+ years of driving process improvements experience
• Master's degree, or MBA in business, operations, human resources, adult education, organizational development, instructional design or related field

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Company

- ADCI - Karnataka - A66

Job ID: A10496634