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Join us at the cutting edge of Amazon's sustainability initiatives to work on environmental and social advancements to support Amazon's long term worldwide sustainability strategy. At Amazon, we're working to be the most customer-centric company on earth. To get there, we need exceptionally talented, bright, and driven people.

The Worldwide Sustainability (WWS) organization capitalizes on Amazon’s scale and speed to build a more resilient and sustainable company. We manage our social and environmental impacts globally, and drive solutions that enable our customers, businesses, and the world to become more sustainable.

Amazon co-founded The Climate Pledge, our commitment to reach net-zero carbon across our global operations by 2040. As part of the Worldwide Environment team, Amazon's Worldwide Carbon team is dedicated to working across the company with our business units to make operational changes to accelerate solutions and decarbonize our businesses in service of The Climate Pledge.

This program leader will own defining and executing a supply chain carbon assessment roadmap with several of our most important business units. They will collaborate cross-functionally across the central sustainability team and the global business teams in Operations, Facilities, AWS, Transportation, Products, and Retail. This program leader must be a self-starter with proven skills in driving key initiatives with results through external and internal partners and have a solid business acumen. They will be a problem solver and be resourceful, able to drive change, creative and willing to work with and through others to be successful. Effective executive communication skills and analytical thinking are necessary for driving a high level of impact.

This role will be responsible for enhancing our supplier carbon-scoring and assessment framework and work with other WWS teams to scale that framework through product requirements, ultimately aiming to embed supplier sustainability assessments into procurement decisions. This role will bring your proven analytical and project management capabilities to imagine, plan, implement and optimize our reach for decarbonization deep into our supply chain.


Key job responsibilities
* Drive a culture of insights across the Supplier Decarbonization and broader Carbon team. This includes: delivering timely insights to the science, engagement, and reporting teams via presentations and workshops with attendance open to all of Worldwide Sustainability and business unit POCs
* Develop framework to assess suppliers’ carbon performance (alongside other sustainability performance indicators)
* Incorporate sustainability metrics into the supplier evaluation and selection process (over time, ensuring they are weighted appropriately alongside traditional criteria like cost and quality)
* Implement systems to track and report on supplier decarbonization progress.
* Conduct regular audits and assessments to ensure compliance with Supply Chain Standards, decarbonization targets, and identify areas for improvement.
* Investigate the use of AI to automate and scale supplier assessments to support our broader supplier engagement work, including developing product requirements in partnership with Supply Chain Tech and Sustainability Science teams.

About the team
Diverse Experiences:
World Wide Sustainability (WWS) values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

Inclusive Team Culture:
It’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Mentorship & Career Growth:
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Work/Life Balance:
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.