Sr. Program Manager, Integrated Planning, GEMS, NA Startup

Amazon; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 116,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon is seeking a Senior Program Manager to join the Startup Integrated Planning team within the Global Engineering, Materials, & Sustainability (GEMS) org. This role focuses on integrated scheduling for North America's infrastructure portfolio, unifying cross-functional workstreams into reliable schedules for large-scale builds and expansions.

The position requires 5+ years in program management, strong data-driven decision making, and hands-on scheduling tools experience (MS

Qualifications

• 5+ years of program or project management experience.
• Experience using data and metrics to determine and drive improvements.
• Experience owning program strategy, end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership.
• Bachelor's degree required.
• Experience building scalable programs and repeatable processes with various tools and methods.
• Experience handling ambiguous or undefined challenges with strong problem solving abilities.
• Experience delivering results for large cross-functional initiatives/projects.
• Experience communicating clearly with leadership, stakeholders, and cross-functional teams.
• 5+ years of program or project management experience with a focus on integrated scheduling.
• Hands-on experience with MS Project, Primavera P6, or equivalent enterprise scheduling tool.

Responsibilities

• Shape and advance the workforce and vendor strategy for contracted planners, including capacity modeling and procurement negotiations.
• Oversee contracted project planners: set expectations, training on planning standards, review deliverables, support escalations.
• Assign and rebalance planners across projects based on priority, complexity, and workload.
• Track project budgets, manage invoicing, and provide funding inputs for planning resources.
• Refine and enforce quality standards for integrated project schedules and connect timelines, dependencies, and handovers.
• Contribute to the planning maturity model and roadmap, setting progressive quality targets.
• Design governance mechanisms that validate schedule quality at scale.
• Ensure weekly planning status reports are accurate and distributed on time.
• Track planning health via KPI dashboards measuring schedule integrity and milestone adherence.
• Develop and enforce Standard Operating Procedures for planning activities.
• Develop and improve planning tools, templates, and AI-driven automations.
• Identify and lead initiatives to advance planning maturity, including automation and capability building.
• Capture lessons learned and convert them into scalable best practices.
• Identify and mitigate program-level planning risks; own escalation paths and drive resolution.
• Ensure planners surface cross-functional dependencies and risks early.
• Develop and refine risk and reporting frameworks for portfolio decisions.
• Provide clear, data-driven status reporting to senior leadership on planning performance.
• Build and maintain program-level relationships with partner functions to drive adoption.
• Serve as planning liaison with partner functions and prioritize inputs.
• Drive continuous improvement of integrated planning across workflows.
• Represent the Integrated Planning program in global forums and align standards.

Skills

Program management

Data-driven decision making

Leadership

Stakeholder communication

Integrated scheduling

Problem solving

Automation

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree or MBA

Tools

MS Project

Primavera P6

Power BI

Job description

Amazon is seeking a Sr. Program Manager to join the Startup Integrated Planning team within the Global Engineering, Materials, & Sustainability (GEMS) organization. This team owns the integrated planning function for North America's infrastructure project portfolio, connecting cross-functional workstreams into unified, reliable schedules that guide execution across large-scale new build and expansion/retrofit projects.

Key job responsibilities

Program Strategy & Contracted Planner Oversight

• Shape and advance the workforce and vendor strategy for contracted planners, including capacity modeling, skill-mix optimization, and procurement negotiations that scale with portfolio growth.
• Oversee contracted project planners: set expectations, provide training on planning standards, review deliverable quality, and support escalations.
• Assign and rebalance planners across projects based on priority, complexity, and workload.
• Track project budgets, manage invoicing, and provide funding inputs for planning resources.

Planning Quality, Standards, & Governance

• Refine and enforce quality standards for integrated project schedules, ensuring all plans connect discipline timelines, dependencies, and handovers into a single source of truth.
• Contribute to the planning maturity model and roadmap, setting progressive quality targets that evolve as the program scales.
• Design and implement governance mechanisms that validate schedule quality at scale, removing the need for manual review.
• Ensure weekly planning status reports are accurate, complete, and distributed on time to stakeholders.
• Track planning health via KPI dashboards measuring schedule integrity, milestone adherence, plan variance, and delivery date accuracy.

Standardization & Continuous Improvement

• Develop, maintain, and enforce Standard Operating Procedures for all planning activities.
• Develop and improve planning tools, templates, and AI-driven automations to boost planner productivity and eliminate manual workflows.
• Identify and lead initiatives that advance planning maturity, including automation, tooling, and capability building.
• Capture lessons learned from completed projects and convert them into repeatable, scalable best practices.

Risk Management & Reporting

• Identify and mitigate program-level planning risks; own escalation paths and drive issues to resolution.
• Ensure planners identify cross-functional dependencies and surface risks early, before they become execution problems.
• Develop and refine risk and reporting frameworks that give leadership the signal needed to make portfolio-level decisions.
• Provide clear, data-driven status reporting to senior leadership on portfolio-wide planning performance.

Program-Level Cross-Functional Partnership

• Build and maintain program-level relationships with key partner functions (design, operations, construction, launch, IT, engineering) to drive planning adoption and standardization.
• Serve as the planning liaison with partner functions, championing integrated scheduling practices and ensuring planning inputs are prioritized.
• Drive continuous improvement of integrated planning by gathering feedback from partner functions and refining how planning intersects with their workflows.
• Represent the Integrated Planning program in global and cross-functional forums, aligning planning standards and resolving systemic gaps across disciplines.

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of program or project management experience
• Experience using data and metrics to determine and drive improvements
• Experience owning program strategy, end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership
• Bachelor's degree
• Experience building scalable programs and repeatable scalable processes, levering various tools and methods to create scale and efficiency
• Experience handling ambiguous or undefined challenges through strong problem solving abilities
• Experience in creating process improvements with automation and analysis, or experience delivering results for large, cross-functional initiatives/projects
• Experience communicating clearly and concisely with leadership, stakeholders, and cross-functional teams
• 5+ years of program or project management experience with a focus on integrated scheduling
• Hands-on experience with MS Project, Primavera P6, or equivalent enterprise scheduling tool

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ 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
• Experience designing, implementing, and scaling upskilling, apprenticeship, or workforce development programs across large-scale operations or corporate environments, including forecasting workforce needs and leveraging analytics to drive program decisions
• Knowledge of data visualization tools such as Quick Sight, Tableau, Power BI or other BI packages
• Experience in creating and managing complex, cross-team project plans
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification or PMI-SP, and experience developing and deploying standardized planning templates/procedures
• Experience with vendor and contractor/subcontractor negotiation and management skills associated with construction and project execution
• 5+ years of directly managing and being responsible for multiple large projects experience
• Experience with vendor and contractor/subcontractor negotiation and management skills associated with construction and project execution

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, AZ, Tempe - 115,600.00 - 160,000.00 USD annually

USA, IL, Chicago - 115,600.00 - 160,000.00 USD annually

USA, MA, Boston - 115,600.00 - 160,000.00 USD annually

USA, NY, New York - 127,200.00 - 185,000.00 USD annually

USA, TN, Nashville - 104,100.00 - 155,400.00 USD annually

USA, TX, Austin - 115,600.00 - 160,000.00 USD annually

USA, TX, Houston - 115,600.00 - 160,000.00 USD annually

USA, VA, Arlington - 115,600.00 - 160,000.00 USD annually

USA, WA, Bellevue - 115,600.00 - 160,000.00 USD annually

Company: Amazon.com Services LLC
Job ID: A10509443