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Key job responsibilities
Program Manager – Capacity Planning is a role where we are looking for an exceptional leader who is passionate about the Customer Experience, who thinks/acts globally, and who can contribute to major new innovations in the industry. You will experience a wide range of problem-solving situations, strategic to real-time, requiring extensive use of data collection and analysis. You are a leader with demonstrated ability to learn new capacity planning methodologies process mapping, process roll out and organization adherence to new processes. This opportunity requires excellent problem-solving, communication skills and a strong track record of delivering results. Cross-team collaboration, project management, and executive presentation skills are essential. A strong record of customer advocacy and influence without authority is important for this role.
You will work in lock-step with multiple business teams, AWS Support Ops, Finance and Leadership. You will:
• Build and implement capacity plans for hiring and staffing that will allow organization to scale to customer demand in the coming years
• Identify/Implement capacity planning and management tools and technology enablers that will improve operating accuracy and efficiency
• Coordinate with Operations, Capacity Planning, Finance, and Biz Ops workflow teams to maintain and update staffing plans.
• Communicate these plans and report on their execution to various stakeholders, and continuously improve the planning and execution cycle.
• Prepare management reporting by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing data and trends and developing recommendations
Professional traits that is not unique to this position, but necessary for Amazon leaders:
• Exhibits excellent judgment
• Has relentlessly high standards
• Thinks strategically, but stays on top of tactical execution
• Expects and requires innovation of her/his team
• Thinks big and has convictions
• Is results oriented
• Comfortable working in a fast paced, highly collaborative, dynamic work environment
About the team
About AWS
Diverse Experiences
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About Sales, Marketing and Global Services (SMGS)
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BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 3+ years of program or project management experience
- 3+ years of defining and implementing process improvement initiatives using data and metrics experience
- Knowledge of Excel (Pivot Tables, VLookUps) at an advanced level and SQL
- Experience using data and metrics to determine and drive improvements
- Experience working cross functionally with tech and non-tech teams
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 3+ years of driving end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership experience
- 3+ years of driving process improvements experience
- Experience in stakeholder management, dealing with multiple stakeholders at varied levels of the organization
- Experience building processes, project management, and schedules
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $66,800/year in our lowest geographic market up to $142,800/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.