This role can be based in any Amazon EU Operations location or corporate office.

At Amazon, we're working to be the most customer-centric company on earth. To get there, we need exceptionally talented, bright, innovative and driven leaders. If you would like to help us build the place to find and buy anything on-line, this is your chance to make history and be involved in growing our business by leading and supporting new building expansion and change.

Key to this mission are strategic, large-scale project management initiatives that will allow us to scale our organization for the future in a dramatic way.

We are looking for a senior program leader to build a new team responsible for Workforce Staffing workstreams, critical to launching new locations. The leader will be responsible for setting out the team structure and strategy, building tools and mechanisms and executing a rolling schedule of both site and new country launches. This role requires both strategic and hands-on leadership, developing, implementing and executing standard staffing launch resources, processes, and tools as well as anticipating risks and managing complex issues towards resolution with the country and European leadership teams.

Responsibilities include:

Stakeholder Management and Governance

· Responsible for the set-up of staffing governance structure for a site/country launch
· Facilitates project communication to stakeholders and leads project status meetings
· Partners with key internal stakeholders to ensure hiring tools and and processes are properly implemented on time for site launch
· Builds cross-functional partnerships – works closely with Regional Operations leaders, new site leadership teams, and other departments such as Real Estate, HR, PR, Legal, Capacity Planning,

Project Management

· Creates and implements consistent, repeatable expansion project plans for site and country launches
· Partner with business line expansion team colleagues to identify best practices to be leveraged across the network and define key performance indicators for successful site launch
· Develop and drive critical staffing initiatives, large projects and providing great internal stakeholder and candidate customer support

Building Launches and Transformations
· Inspects and monitors building progress and adherence to standards for people impacting spaces
· Challenges and escalates on any variance to agreed standards for people impacting spaces
· Anticipates and escalates/resolves critical role hiring risks and ensures internal guidelines are adhered to
· Accountable for the timely and accurate set-up of hiring systems and processes.
· Responsible for the coordination/set-up of WFS capabilities programs for new site WFS teams.
· Serve as escalation point for any WFS related new site issues

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· Bachelors Degree or equivalent
· Proven cross-functional and international project management experience, handling complex change initiatives
· Good understanding of relevant employment legislation that a launch may impact
· Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
· Strong people management skills and experience.
· The ability to manage detail, establish root cause and be able to extract and analyze data.
· Be able to demonstrate effective problem-solving and analytical capability.
· Thrive on change, inclined to operate with flexibility.
· Experience presenting to and partnering with senior stakeholders
· Ability and experience working in a fast paced, high pressure environment.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

· MBA Graduate
· A sincere bias for action and be passionate about achieving results and process improvement.
· An innovative business and recruitment thought leader with strong analytical acumen.
· An enthusiastic team player with a strong drive to create a positive work environment.
· Comfortable with high volume workload.
· A strong solutions focus and be comfortable working in an environment which demands strong deliverable's.
· Exemplary presentation and influencing skills.