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Amazon Delivery Operations Program Manager, Infra DCPD - (AMER) in Herndon, Virginia
Description
AWS Infrastructure Services 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.
We’re hiring a Delivery Operations Program Manager in Seattle, WA, Herndon, VA or Arlington, VA to drive our capital allocation request and critical business operations processes to support infrastructure growth initiatives for the Americas Data Center Delivery team. The high-volume, high-visibility process requires timely input from cross-functional teams and concise, clear narratives documented for weekly senior leadership reviews. Are you ready to be the single-threaded owner driving critical processes ?
The ideal candidate will have the ability to earn trust with multiple stakeholder groups, has strong organizational skills, and is a strong communicator, both written and verbally. We’re looking for someone who has demonstrated prior successes coordinating across multiple teams for information in a rapid-paced environment; organizes information well for others consumption; and who has previous experience providing clear and concise narratives for leadership.
The Program Manager will:
Create funding request narratives to provide concise, clear, and consistent details describing how requested funding supports customers by delivering needed capacity.
Drive effective teamwork, communication, collaboration across multiple disparate groups with competing priorities to assemble business reports and capacity delivery funding requests.
Maintain funding request progress tracker to ensure requests’ timing aligns with leadership review timelines, allows for capacity delivery on time to support customer needs, and provides partner teams data to resource plan to support the funding request assembly process.
Determine and monitor key metrics to measure and evaluate program performance
Develop process improvement ideas to drive improvements to the manual parts of the process under your control and recommend solutions to other teams for improvements to the overall process.
Collaborate with technical program managers and demand/supply planners on the team in order to competently represent the team to other stakeholder groups.
Own project status communication consistently providing clear and concise summaries for the team’s funding requests to leadership.
Have a good working relationship with finance, build teams, sourcing partners, supply and demand teams, and other teams as needed. Recognize discordant views and lead constructive dialogue to resolve them.
Proactively mitigate risks to delivering capacity by following through on funding request approvals throughout the process.
About the team
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.
Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.
Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Arlington, VA, USA | Herndon, VA, USA | Seattle, WA, USA
Basic Qualifications
Bachelor's degree
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
PMP certificate
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $59,300/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.