Looking for a career at a company that seeks to be Earth’s most customer-centric company? If so, come join us at Amazon. ShipTech is the connective tissue, which connects Transportation Service Providers, First Mile, Middle Mile, and Last Mile to facilitate the shipping of billions of packages each year. Due to criticality of the ShipTech systems, world-wide (WW) Amazon business organizations work with ShipTech every year to deliver their programs for network expansion, operational efficiency improvement, new feature delivery to enhance customer/operator experience, compliance asks, etc. WW requestors submit intakes to deliver: (1) on-boarding new shippers, carriers, and services to the shipping network, (2) facilitating package movement and tracking in Amazon and third-party (3P) network, (3) changes in carrier artifacts like a label and manifest, (4) carrier configurations like routing codes, account ids, and (5) custom tech-builds for meeting business specific asks delivered by ShipTech every year (6) support improvement in the quality of Amazon’s worldwide shipment infrastructure by defining the usage, configuration, and standardization of transportation milestones We are looking for a Program Manager to be a part of our effort to drive program for improving visibility and tracking capabilities for Amazon shipments. Our mission is to be a partner and enabler to Amazon Operations by improving shipment tracking logic and capabilities for different legs of logistics, customer messaging, validation of transportation milestones, enable logic for automated shipment workflows and improve quality of shipment tracking within and outside Amazon partners. This role gives an opportunity to work closely with Business team, Operations stakeholders, Tech teams, recipient experience teams and Senior Leaders to manage and deliver for Amazon businesses. Responsibilities Drive improvement in worldwide shipment infrastructure by defining the usage, configuration, and standardization of transportation milestones. 2. Drive initiatives to improvement accuracy of shipment visibility for improving improve customer experience 3. Conducting evaluation of existing workflows and drive initiative to be Amazon central authority on workflows 4. Identify and execute data driven workstreams to identify gaps in current infrastructure (Both tech and business rules) and define future state along with roadmap 5. Improve the worldwide customer experience and operations visibility through accurate and informative delivery status of milestones. 6. Execute our program and project initiatives, while providing great internal customer support and driving consistency, help us continue to support our initiatives, and identify process improvement opportunities 7. Work with a variety of cross-organizational stakeholders which includes worldwide Transportation, ATS, AMZL, Customer Service, Customer Experience, Product, and Tech teams. 8. Communicate project statuses and updates across a global audience. Experience with Program Management in a broad, global organization 9. Manage competing priorities and drive alignment with leadership from different teams to implement the optimal solves for worldwide network A day in the life The ideal candidate must be detail-oriented, have superior verbal and written communication skills, strong organizational skills, able to juggle multiple stakeholders at once, able to work independently, and maintain professionalism under pressure. This role will need to have knowledge in analytical skills and in excel. The Program Manager will be passionate about their work, detail-oriented, and have good problem-solving abilities. This position will drive towards simple, scalable solutions to difficult problems, have project-management skills, and be able to communicate complex analytical results, both written and verbally, in a clear and easy-to-understand way. About the team We are a team of program managers who work across 20+ platform tech teams. Our stakeholders are transportation teams across regions. We contribute to several large-scale high-visibility programs each year such as network expansion projects like market place launches and carrier launches, and new feature build outs to provide enhanced customer experience or better operational efficiencies. We also support several compliance programs across our worldwide stakeholders. We are looking for a Program Manager to work with global business customers and our engineering teams to support intake requests related to new carrier on-boarding and ship method integrations. - 3+ years of program or project management experience - 3+ years of working cross functionally with tech and non-tech teams 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 defining program requirements and using data and metrics to determine improvements - 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 Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. 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