Strategic PM - Integrated Planning & Scheduling

Amazon; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 67,000 - 117,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Amazon is seeking a Program Manager to join the Startup Integrated Planning team within the GEMS organization. This role leads a team of contracted planners and shapes the integrated scheduling strategy for North America’s infrastructure portfolio, including large-scale builds and expansions.

You will balance program-level strategy with cross-functional influence while maturing planning processes in a rapidly scaling environment.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of program or project management experience.
• Advanced Excel skills (Pivot Tables, VLookUps) and SQL.
• Experience defining and implementing process improvements using data.
• Experience working cross-functionally with tech and non-tech teams.
• Bachelor's degree required.
• 3+ years of integrated scheduling (MS Project/Primavera P6) experience.
• Experience applying AI tools and automation to scale operations.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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.
• Build and maintain program-level relationships with partner functions to drive planning adoption and standardization.

Skills

Program management

Cross-functional collaboration

Problem solving

Data-driven decision making

AI/automation awareness

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Excel

SQL

MS Project

Primavera P6

Job description

Amazon is seeking a Program Manager to join the Startup Integrated Planning team within the GEMS organization. This role leads a team of contracted planners and shapes the integrated scheduling strategy for North America’s infrastructure portfolio, including large-scale builds and expansions.

You will balance program-level strategy with cross-functional influence while maturing planning processes in a rapidly scaling environment.