Description

　　Are you an experienced Program Manager interested in an opportunity to help drive Amazon’s flywheel and develop your A to Z business understanding? Do you enjoy learning about different Amazon business types and new subsidiaries, and thinking creatively about brand new businesses that Amazon is inventing on behalf of customers? The Global Accounts Receivable (GAR) AR Launch Team is seeking a creative and passionate Senior Program Manager to help achieve our vision to provide a world-class Order-to-Cash (O2C) onboarding experience to our global business partners in support of Amazon’s journey to become earth’s most customer-centric company. We love to offer our customers unique world-class experiences, and we invite you to help Amazon make history!

　　The Senior Program Manager will have oversight of the integration of new Retail initiatives onto O2C platforms, driving effective people, processes, and technology to achieve organizational goals and deliver results. This individual will have ownership over business integration programs while standardizing the global implementation processes and driving efficiency in the Digital and platform AR space. This role will require engagement and alignment with the local and global business, finance, and operational teams, system developers and product managers. Responsibilities include supporting business initiatives through designing transactional workflows, defining requirements and testing of the solutions to ensure delivery is as expected and delivering and improving the customer experience. Implementation of mechanisms to monitor and measure performance is essential.

　　The ability to thrive in a fast-paced, ambiguous and demanding work environment is critical to success in this role. The ideal candidate will be a self-starter with knowledge of program management, demonstrate strong relationship and strategic influencing skills, be experienced in large scale change management across functions and geographies, and exhibit a relentless pursuit for improvement. This individual must have a proven record of delivering results through strong program management skills, problem solving skills, influencing without authority, strong ability to prioritize, and a passion for customer experience.

　　Primary areas of responsibility include:

　　Partner with key counterparts across geographies to launch initiatives in a scalable and cost effective manner

　　Develop a solid understanding of Amazon’s Finance Operations systems and processes

　　Translate complex business requirements into functional designs

　　Oversee comprehensive testing of systems changes and development of standard operating procedures, process documentation and performance metrics

　　Manage process transitions/implementations across multiple functions and geographies

　　Motivate and influence business, operational and technical teams to ensure that best practices are followed and implemented

　　Identify, assess, track and mitigate risks at multiple levels

　　Proactively monitor program performance to identify, address and prevent potential issues

　　Address barriers through problem solving, communication and active coordination with stakeholders

　　Drive effective teamwork, communication collaboration and commitment across multiple disparate groups with competing priorities

　　Key job responsibilities

　　Partner with key counterparts across geographies to launch initiatives in a scalable and cost effective manner

　　Develop a solid understanding of Amazon’s Finance Operations systems and processes

　　Translate complex business requirements into functional designs

　　Oversee comprehensive testing of systems changes and development of standard operating procedures, process documentation and performance metrics

　　Manage process transitions/implementations across multiple functions and geographies

　　Motivate and influence business, operational and technical teams to ensure that best practices are followed and implemented

　　Identify, assess, track and mitigate risks at multiple levels

　　Proactively monitor program performance to identify, address and prevent potential issues

　　Address barriers through problem solving, communication and active coordination with stakeholders

　　Drive effective teamwork, communication collaboration and commitment across multiple disparate groups with competing priorities

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

　　Prague, CZE

　　Basic Qualifications

　　Experience in 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 managing stakeholders in cross-functional project experience

　　Experience in owning program strategy, end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership experience

　　Experience in working cross functionally with tech and non-tech teams experience

　　Preferred Qualifications

　　Experience in driving process improvements experience

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

　　PMP certificate

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