Description

Amazon's Customer Service (CS) department is seeking an experienced Program Manager to join the EU Customer Services team.

You will be responsible for driving a high-visibility Customer Service program that will directly impact the EU customer experience and defect reduction (concession) goals. You will be responsible for owning the creation, collection and implementation of defect reduction related initiatives that support EU CS to achieve the yearly goals.

You must be an experienced Program Manager who has owned and delivered complex programs that interact with senior stakeholders across multiple different business organisations. You will be comfortable in a fast-paced multi-tasked environment, with the ability to define, design and drive the program’s vision and roadmap. An expert collaborator you will be comfortable to negotiate with key business partners and teams across multiple functions to gain alignment on program vision, project selection and prioritization and will have ultimately responsibility for all aspects of the programs execution.

Depending on the applicant, this role can be based in Edinburgh, London, Cork, Berlin, Paris, Cagliari or Luxembourg.

Key job responsibilities

• Define the direction for the program and gain consensus and clear alignment at all levels as appropriate, within Amazon's Customer Service and business teams.

• Interact with cross-disciplinary and cross functional teams like Customer Service Operations, Retail, and Transportation, software development and IT to design the program’s standard operational procedures, processes and technical requirements.

• Define, prioritize and plan the projects that need to be implemented to execute on the process and technical requirements.

• Schedule, secure resources and manage cross functional teams to deliver to these projects.

• Monitor the execution and ensure the delivery of projects is to an appropriate level of quality, ensuring the overall integrity of the program.

• Monitor the program’s overall progress; anticipate risks, resolve issues and initiate corrective action as appropriate.

• Manage the dependencies and the interfaces between projects and negotiate the trade-offs needed.

• Provide overall stakeholder management and program progress reporting on a regular basis.

• Where applicable manage and oversee third party contributions to the program.

• End to end responsibility for the program’s execution and success.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Edinburgh, SCB, GBR

Basic Qualifications

• 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 in program or project management

• Sound business background, preferably working in a Customer Service or Outsource service environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree, or MBA in business, operations, human resources, adult education, organizational development, instructional design or related field

• Experience leading process improvements

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