As a Strategic Project Manager, you will work across teams to collaborate, generate buy-in, develop and execute to a plan. You will drive the planning and execution of a diverse portfolio of projects with varying degrees of complexity, scale, and duration. You will play a crucial role in strategy implementation, fostering partnerships, and executing initiatives to enhance each project's reach and impact. This entails serving as the main point of contact for stakeholders in coordinating and managing strategic, cross-functional, and business-critical projects.
The ideal candidate excels at planning and implementing diverse projects with agility, encompassing gap analysis, ideation, planning, implementation, and retrospectives in a dynamic and diverse business environment. Effective communication and project management skills are essential, enabling you to manage multiple competing priorities and coordinate work across teams. The successful candidate will be proficient at working with data to identify trends, identify improvement opportunities, and proactively define plans to realize these opportunities.
To be successful in this role, the candidate will effectively multitask and prioritize, utilize data to encourage decisions, and maintain a high level of independence. They will be comfortable working in a growing and ambiguous work environment as we constantly improve and innovate. The successful candidate must have solid written and verbal communications skills, the ability to influence stakeholders, and willingness to dive deep into details.
Key job responsibilities
• Accountable for the overall Health & Safety strategic projects planning, communicate requirements, negotiate priorities, and define success metrics
• Apply project management best practices to drive plan execution, mitigate risks, and improve effectiveness to deliver results in a timely manner
• Continuously assess and prioritize action for multiple projects while driving results.
• Deliver clear and concise project updates and KPIs to leadership teams and effectively answer questions
• Serve as the primary point of contact for coordinating and managing strategic, cross-functional, and business-critical safety projects
• Build partnerships with key stakeholders and organizations to promote H&S project adoption.
• Effectively communicate and manage multiple, competing priorities while coordinating work across teams
• Define, track, and monitor progress against success metrics and project plans. Analyze and report on overall project health using key performance indicators and success metrics, and accurately and clearly report on status against objectives
About the team
AWS Infrastructure Services (AIS) owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. In other words, we're the people who keep the cloud running. We support all AWS data centers and all of the servers, storage, networking, power, and cooling equipment that ensure our customers have continual access to the innovation they rely on. We work on the most challenging problems, with thousands of variables impacting the supply chain - and we're looking for talented people who want to help.
You'll join a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, operations managers, and other vital roles. You'll collaborate with people across AWS to help us deliver the highest standards for safety and security while providing seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost for our customers. And you'll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.
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
- Experience leading process improvements
- Bachelor's degree
- Experience implementing repeatable processes and driving automation or standardization
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ years of delivering cross functional projects experience
- 4+ years of driving process improvements experience
- PMP certificate
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.
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