Senior Manager, PMO and Transformation, Amazon Leo

Amazon Kuiper Manufacturing Enterprises LLC; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Leo in Bellevue, WA seeks a Senior Manager, PMO and Transformation to lead delivery excellence across SAP and enterprise applications. Own end-to-end delivery lifecycle: portfolio strategy, program execution, project management, release governance, and financial and vendor management.

You will collaborate with Process and Business Excellence, SAP IT/COE, and SAP Reporting/Analytics to ensure demand flows from business need to value realization, reporting to the Head of SAP.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• 7+ years of people management experience.
• 7+ years of technical program management experience.
• 7+ years managing portfolios of concurrent technology programs with budgets exceeding $10M annually.
• 5+ years leading PMO organizations of 15+ people including program managers, project managers, and release managers.
• 3+ years managing vendor and SI relationships including contract negotiation, performance management, and resource governance.
• Experience with SAP or large-scale ERP implementation programs (full lifecycle from planning through hypercare).
• Experience with release management and change control processes in enterprise environments.
• Experience with financial management of technology portfolios: budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and ROI tracking.
• PMP, PgMP, or equivalent project/program management certification.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to produce executive-level reporting and facilitate governance forums

Responsibilities

• Portfolio Strategy & Demand Management: Own the consolidated SAP portfolio view - strategy, prioritization, business case validation, and demand intake.
• Capacity & Resource Planning: Match portfolio demand against internal and external resources, identify gaps, and provide data-driven recommendations on staffing, sequencing, and trade-offs when demand exceeds capacity.
• Program & Project Execution: Lead cross-functional program planning and execution, manage dependencies across concurrent workstreams, and ensure all projects adhere to standards for scope, schedule, budget, and reporting.
• Risk & Governance: Maintain RAID logs, drive mitigations, elevate blockers, and establish governance cadences including steering committees, milestone gates, and decision forums across portfolio, program, and project levels.
• Release & Change Management: Own release planning, operate the Change Advisory Board, govern deployment processes through dev/quality/production environments, and manage transport and environment scheduling.
• Financial Management: Develop and track annual budgets, produce monthly forecasts, drive cost optimization through vendor consolidation and rate negotiation, and deliver financial reporting including ROI tracking and variance analysis.
• Vendor & SI Management: Govern vendor contracts, manage SOWs, conduct performance scorecarding, ensure deliverable accountability, and oversee resource quality across all external partners.
• Delivery Excellence & Capability Building: Establish PMO standards and templates, drive continuous improvement through retrospectives, and build organizational delivery capability across Agile, hybrid, and waterfall methodologies.

Skills

People management

Technical program management

Portfolio management

Vendor management

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical field

Master's degree (preferred)

Job description

Amazon Leo is Amazon's low Earth orbit satellite broadband network. Its mission is to deliver fast, reliable internet to customers and communities around the world, and we've designed the system with the capacity, flexibility, and performance to serve a wide range of customers, from individual households to schools, hospitals, businesses, government agencies, and other organizations operating in locations without reliable connectivity.

Export Control : This position requires that the candidate selected be a U.S. Citizen in order to comply with U.S. government-imposed requirements related to the nature of the work and/or where it will be performed.

We are seeking a Senior Manager, PMO and Transformation to lead delivery excellence across Amazon Leo's SAP and enterprise applications portfolio. This role owns the end-to-end delivery lifecycle: portfolio strategy, program execution, project management, release governance, and financial and vendor management. You ensure that process and technology investments translate into measurable business value through disciplined execution, effective change management, and rigorous governance. This role reports to the Head of SAP and operates as the Delivery Excellence function within the broader SAP organization. You partner with Process and Business Excellence (who defines what to build and why), SAP IT/COE (who designs and builds solutions), and SAP Reporting/Analytics (who delivers insights), ensuring that demand flows efficiently from business need through delivery to value realization.

Key job responsibilities

• Portfolio Strategy & Demand Management: Own the consolidated SAP portfolio view - strategy, prioritization, business case validation, and demand intake - ensuring all initiatives have clear scope, funding, and alignment before entering the delivery pipeline.
• Capacity & Resource Planning: Match portfolio demand against internal and external resources, identify gaps, and provide data-driven recommendations on staffing, sequencing, and trade-offs when demand exceeds capacity.
• Program & Project Execution: Lead cross-functional program planning and execution, manage dependencies across concurrent workstreams, and ensure all projects adhere to standards for scope, schedule, budget, and reporting.
• Risk & Governance: Maintain RAID logs, drive mitigations, elevate blockers, and establish governance cadences including steering committees, milestone gates, and decision forums across portfolio, program, and project levels.
• Release & Change Management: Own release planning, operate the Change Advisory Board, govern deployment processes through dev/quality/production environments, and manage transport and environment scheduling.
• Financial Management: Develop and track annual budgets, produce monthly forecasts, drive cost optimization through vendor consolidation and rate negotiation, and deliver financial reporting including ROI tracking and variance analysis.
• Vendor & SI Management: Govern vendor contracts, manage SOWs, conduct performance scorecarding, ensure deliverable accountability, and oversee resource quality across all external partners.
• Delivery Excellence & Capability Building: Establish PMO standards and templates, drive continuous improvement through retrospectives, and build organizational delivery capability across Agile, hybrid, and waterfall methodologies.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field
• 7+ years of people management experience
• 7+ years of technical program management experience
• .7+ years managing portfolios of concurrent technology programs with budgets exceeding $10M
• annually.
• 5+ years leading PMO organizations of 15+ people including program managers, project managers,
• and release managers.
• 3+ years managing vendor and SI relationships including contract negotiation, performance
• management, and resource governance.
• Experience with SAP or large-scale ERP implementation programs (full lifecycle from planning
• through hypercare).
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• Experience with release management and change control processes in enterprise environments.
• Experience with financial management of technology portfolios: budgeting, forecasting, variance
• analysis, and ROI tracking.
• PMP, PgMP, or equivalent project/program management certification.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to produce executive-level reporting
• and facilitate governance forum

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree or equivalent
• Experience with SAP S/4HANA implementation programs, including Greenfield and Brownfield approaches.
• 3Experience in manufacturing, aerospace, defense, or high-tech environments with regulatory compliance requirements (SOX, ITAR, DFARS).
• Agile certifications (SAFe, CSM, or equivalent) with experience running hybrid delivery models.
• Experience with portfolio ma