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Amazon Supply Chain Program Manager, Launch & Expansion, Global Procurement Organization (GPO) in Nashville, Tennessee
Description
The Supply Chain Program Manager, Launch Expansion is responsible for providing leadership, management and coordination of global projects to innovate and drive standardization across Business Units & regions. The role is seen as a strategic driver for excellence, through implementation of best practices, standardization of project execution and governance. You will be an experienced procurement or project/program management professional, responsible for monitoring and controlling project progress and performance, proactively identifying risks and managing mitigation plans. You will have excellent communication skills to build and maintain effective stakeholder relationships and have the ability to focus simultaneously on short term deliverables and continuous improvement initiatives to deliver long term value to internal customers.
Key job responsibilities
•Lead continuous improvement initiatives and cross functional programs across NA, EMEA, APAC and LATAM regions to drive operational efficiency and cost savings.
•Manage multiple, competing projects and priorities simultaneously
•Conduct discovery of novel ideas and innovative solutions through deep dive and Voice of Customer (VOC) analysis to develop white papers/ business case.
• Manage new complex initiatives, deal with ambiguity and innovate on behalf of internal stakeholders.
• Provide leadership, management and coordination of procurement tasks and dependencies to ensure goods and services critical to the launch of sites are planned for, ordered and delivered on time.
• Build and maintain effective stakeholder relationships with internal customers, ensuring regular communication channels are in place.
• Develop reporting mechanisms for senior leadership to reflect project progress and performance, proactively identify risks, issues and manage mitigation plans.
• Provide fast and responsive support when faced with escalations from senior leadership, own and drive resolution of issues
• Provide guidance, coaching and technical support to launch procurement team to embed use of best practice processes & tools
• Identify and implement strategic initiatives and deliver procurement value to the business
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Arlington, VA, USA | Houston, TX, USA | Nashville, TN, USA
Basic Qualifications
Bachelor's degree
5+ years of program or project management experience
3+ years of supply chain experience
3+ years of defining and implementing process improvement initiatives using data and metrics experience
3+ years of working cross functionally with non-tech teams experience
3+ years of managing stakeholders in cross-functional project experience
Experience defining program requirements and using data and metrics to determine improvements
Knowledge of Excel (Pivot Tables, VLookUps) at an advanced level and SQL
Preferred Qualifications
PMP certificate
3+ years of defining and executing against program timeline & requirements experience
3+ years of driving end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership experience
Experience building processes, project management, and schedules
Experience implementing repeatable processes and driving automation or standardization
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