Amazon is focused on protecting the health and safety of our employees while continuing to serve people who need our services more than ever. The Covid-19 outbreak has highlighted the importance of implementing and maintaining robust clinical diagnostic services for both employees and the community. Regular testing for a range of pathogens, on a global and national scale across all industries and service areas helps keep people safe and to maintain and improve the economic situation at a national and international level. Cost and time-effective diagnostics are a key element to ensuring that individuals, companies and governments are informed and can respond rapidly to protect lives and health.

Amazon has built incremental lab capacity, and implemented diagnostic testing for employees, performing over 1 million Covid-19 tests in the past 12 months in the Manchester based facility. While we are continuing to protect our staff from Covid-19, we are looking to expand testing capabilities into new and novel areas, and are seeking an experienced Senior Program Manager that can support us in this mission.

This role can be based in the following locations: Manchester or London

Key Responsibilities
This role is part of a team that develops and supports products, systems and processes to plan, develop, manufacture, launch and support devices as efficiently as possible. The role will lead multiple cross functional projects in our Laboratory. You will:
· Show ownership by driving complex projects from initiation through to delivery, ensuring understanding to define strategy while staying on top of every detail to ensure smooth delivery
· Think big; build and maintain cross-functional coordination of strategic projects across areas such as Science/Microbiology, Engineering, Quality, Supply Chain and Tech.
· Create, maintain and deliver project plans and templates such as project schedules, risk logs, status reports, metrics plans, etc. Tracking and reporting on the status of a portfolio of projects.
· Support the preparation for business justifications/business cases
· Demonstrate a bias for action and an ability to deal with great ambiguity; identify and drive incremental process improvements and changes as the program evolves
· Present to a variety of technical and non-technical audiences, including senior and executive level leaders
· Lead project lessons learnt activity to capture learning and implement into future programs

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· Significant large scale project management experience in leading multi-organizational initiatives, and driving team accountability to achieve impactful goals
· Demonstrated ability to work well in a team environment and work under tight deadlines and controlled expenditure
· Ability to drive projects efficiently in a cross-functional environment by establishing respect and confidence in the business and technical communities
· Strong influencing skills and negotiation skills
· Ability to motivate and focus people resources where there is no direct reporting relationship
· Proven experience of program management tools

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

· Master’s degree
· PRINCE2, APM or similar qualification
· Experience of regulated sectors such as food, pharmaceuticals or healthcare
· Certified Six Sigma Green or Black Belt
· Experience working with a global team
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