Senior Risk Manager, Transportation Risk and Compliance

Amazon; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 109,000 - 185,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Risk Manager to lead compliance and risk management initiatives in transportation. This role involves designing frameworks to improve compliance, analyzing data to drive decisions, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure adherence to legal and contractual obligations. With a focus on metrics and reporting, you will influence stakeholders and lead projects that enhance operational excellence. Join a dynamic team dedicated to delivering exceptional results and ensuring the highest standards of safety and compliance across global transportation operations.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of compliance, audit, or risk management experience.
• Experience building cross-functional partnerships and influencing stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Design and manage scalable frameworks for risk improvements.
• Conduct deep dives on compliance data and report findings to leadership.

Skills

Compliance Management

Risk Management

Data Analysis

Communication Skills

Project Management

Stakeholder Influence

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Microsoft Office

Excel

Hubble

Alteryx

Job description

Senior Risk Manager, Transportation Risk and Compliance

Want to help Earth’s most customer-centric company design, implement and monitor risk mitigation strategies to improve the customer experience and protect Amazon’s brand?

In this role, you will work closely with Amazon's global transportation businesses to build initiatives and frameworks that support carrier partners in meeting legal and contractual obligations relating to business practices, driver / provider eligibility, and safety standards. You will be expected to deep dive metrics, processes, and programs to evaluate program health and design remediation plans to enable business success. You must clearly and concisely communicate identified findings to senior leadership, and will be responsible for partnering with cross-functional teams to design and manage ongoing workflows. You will set program objectives, evaluate and assign metrics that measure success, and drive business changes that reduce risk. You will work collaboratively with business stakeholders, legal, tech, and field operations teams to monitor program health and implement world-class, customer-centric, compliance and risk management solutions.


Key job responsibilities
- Design and manage scalable frameworks to drive process deep dives while enabling risk improvements
- Conduct reoccurring deep dives on compliance data and report (written and oral) findings to leadership
- Analyze data, develop KPIs, and ensure we appropriately manage/report the most important compliance metrics
- Lead Weekly Business Reviews/Quarterly Business Reviews
- Ability to define, develop, and implement risk programs and drive improvements quantified with metrics.
- Ability to lead, monitor, and drive projects through to completion on time.
- Ability to establish successful partnerships with internal and external teams to execute both tactical and strategic initiatives.
- Demonstrable excellent communication skills (written and verbal).
- Influence internal/external stakeholders to drive timely and high-quality results
- Demonstrable problem-solving skills using data and insights to drive both tactical and strategic business decisions.

A day in the life
The Sr. Risk Manager will lead the global metrics and reporting workstream. The individual will: 1) leverage their product/program/risk expertise to identify, design, and implement frameworks to enable compliance improvements, 2) deep dive compliance hot spots and present findings/recommendations to senior leadership, 3) continuously evaluate mechanism (process and metric) effectiveness, 4) analyze program insights via ongoing reporting, and 5) lead the WBR/QBR.

About the team
Transportation Risk and Compliance (TRC) is the voice of risk and compliance for Amazon’s transportation businesses across 24 countries. We proactively identify and manage risks through mitigation strategies and provide assurance that Amazon and our carrier partners comply with the highest transportation and legal standards (including legislative, regulatory, and contractual). Anchored by sound subject matter expertise, processes, and growing technology solutions, our TRC leaders improve public safety and enable business growth as we work diligently to serve our customers.

- Bachelor's degree or equivalent
- 6+ years of compliance, audit or risk management experience
- Experience building cross-functional partnerships and influencing stakeholders across the organization to act without having a direct reporting relationship
- Knowledge of Microsoft Office products and applications at an advanced level
- Experience communicating with senior and/or executive leadership

- Experience leveraging technology and implementing lean principles / Six Sigma methodologies to drive process improvements or equivalent
- Experience developing and implementing of standards, policies and programs or equivalent
- Ability to analyze data using Excel, Hubble, Alteryx, or similar programs

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $109,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $185,000/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits . This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.