Global Process and Policy Governance Lead, Selling Partner Experience

Are you a systems thinker who naturally identifies constraints and is able to build mechanisms or processes to fix it. Are you excited about the challenges of thinking big, but at the same time be invested in details? Are you able to thrive in ambiguity and able to chart out your way, bringing people along? Are you excited about the opportunity to make a large impact and bring structure in our day-to-day operations? We might just have the role for you.

Selling Partner Support (SPS) is responsible for creating a trustworthy shopping experience across Amazon stores worldwide by protecting customers, brands, selling partners and Amazon from fraud, counterfeit, and abuse as well as empowering, providing world‐class support, and building loyalty with Amazon’s millions of selling partners. We value individual expression, respect different opinions, and work together to create a culture where each of us is able to contribute fully. Our unique backgrounds and perspectives strengthen our ability to achieve Amazon's mission of being Earth's most customer-centric company.

The purpose of our Global Process and Policy Experience (GPPX) team is to be advocates of our sellers. We build mechanisms to inspect quality of our processes and policies, and drive strategic initiatives that help us improve our processes and policies. We also own some key business mechanisms that drive improvement prioritizations across the SPS org working with a complex set of stakeholders, metric owners, goal owners and organization leaders.

We are looking for a detail oriented, innovative and experienced GPPX Governance Lead to develop scalable governance mechanisms and a standard framework, with a focus on connecting project owners, managers and leaders together to enable them to increase the delivery for the Selling Partners. You will apply program management, systems thinking principles supported by an efficient project management framework to drive solutions. Above all, we are looking for a leader that is passionate about solving complex and ambiguous problems through simplification and innovation. This role will directly report to the GPPX Leader. The role is based in Seattle or HQ2.


Key job responsibilities
• You will develop a system that contains a centralized project tracking process, standard portfolio reviews, and automated self-service dashboards that enable project owners to manage their portfolio autonomously, managers to identify and remove roadblocks in their teams, and leaders to have visibility on projects and benefit.
• You will define, lead and support the execution of the operational planning cycles for the GPPX organization. This includes defining the working backwards plan, ensuring high quality write ups, providing visibility of the planning cycles for contribution, transparency and information across the organization.
• You will lead the portfolio review mechanism across the organization, evaluating the return of investment from the allocation of headcount and the delivery of the various projects and programs against business goals. Through risk management and portfolio insight assessments, you will facilitate agile decisions with leaders to ensure delivery of value for customers and employees.
• You will define the rhythm of business (ROB) for GPPX org to ensure that the most important topics bubble up and are discussed at the right frequencies with the leadership group.
• You will innovate on the inspection mechanisms needed to keep the organization running healthy and bring focus to pain points that need closer attention.
• You will be accountable to keep the important organization workstreams (such as new hire experience, GPPX branding, employee surveys, engagement and fun) on track with the help of single threaded leaders who will be responsible to execute the plans on these workstreams. You will help mitigate risks or bubble them up for leadership attention at appropriate forums.
• You will define standards and reduce the manual effort involved in the write up of high-quality business reviews in the GPPX organization – defining standard process and best practices along the way.
• You will own the goal tracking and inspection mechanism for the org.