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Amazon Program Manager in Chennai, India
Description
Amazon’s Selection expansion team started operations in March 2009 and has grown steadily in scope ever since. This is a global program supporting all marketplaces and operates out of Chennai. Amazon eCommerce Selection and Catalog Systems group at Amazon focuses on making direct impact on Selection for Amazon’s Retail & 3rd party marketplace business across markets worldwide. The Selection Expansion team within this group owns end to end processes for discovering, prioritizing and adding new selection available to customers across different markets worldwide. This drives one of Amazon’s core focus areas: providing the widest selection to customers. We operate in a fast paced, rapidly growing environment offering new challenges and opportunities for making impactful changes in the Amazon ecosystem.
Program Manager in this group is expected to interact directly with Amazon internal stakeholders across the globe to deliver on operational goals, drive process improvements and deliver business value. The person will be expected to be skilled in understanding customer needs, setting and managing expectations, building customer confidence through effective communication, reliable delivery, robust processes, and sound reporting metrics. The person will also be responsible for defining and driving customer impact metrics across programs and marketplaces through process changes and improvements in customer experience for the product/process that he/she manages. The person will work with cross skilled team of associates (technical & non-technical), business analysts, program and product managers to carry out business critical processes. The individual would be responsible for overall planning, budgeting, growth, delivery, process efficiency and productivity for their work groups.
Key job responsibilities
Drive cross functional programs/ projects to deliver business value for the team; be part of projects involving new feature definition to improve processes, customer adoption and to reduce cost.
Work with data engineering team and Software development teams to improve tools, processes and reporting dashboards
Engage stakeholders across globe; demonstrate business acumen and skills in driving change by developing business proposals and driving implementation of recommendations through effective written and oral communication.
Work with operations team to drive implementation of new programs & products
Analyze historical data to build quality improvement initiatives and drive quality strategies across the network.
Formulate, implement and track career development plans for team of highly skilled resources
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Bangalore, KA, IND | Chennai, TN, IND
Basic Qualifications
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
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