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 concession (defect reduction) goals. You will be responsible for owning the creation, collection and implementation of concession related initiatives that support EU CS to achieve the yearly concession 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 the Cork, Edinburgh, Regensburg, Berlin, Cagliari or Luxembourg.

Key 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.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· Strong analytical and numerical skills essential.
· Bachelor's Degree in Business, Business Information Systems, Computer Science or equivalent.
· Sound business background, preferably working in a Customer Service or Outsource service environment.
· Qualified candidates will have relevant Program management experience.
· Should have a proven track record in the delivery of large scale complex cross-functional change projects.
· Proven ability to influence change at all levels within an organization.
· Expert planner with business process definition experience and a strong IT aptitude.
· Decision Making and Complex Problem Solving; a system thinker who proactively gathers the right data from appropriate sources to make the right decisions.
· A big thinker who can look outside the box for solutions
· Can act decisively, promptly and confidently.
· Excellent communicator both verbally and written with an ability to communicate at all levels in the organization (technical, business, executive).
· Think and act with the big picture in mind while controlling tactically.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

· PMP certified or equivalent project management certification.
· Practiced working knowledge of Six Sigma tools and Lean techniques.
· European languages, in addition to English, would be advantageous.

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