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Looking to achieve positive outcomes for people and planet at significant scale?

Join us at the cutting edge of Amazon's sustainability initiatives. 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's Social Responsibility program under WWS drives customer trust, business continuity, and sustainable impact by embedding respect for human rights and the environment throughout Amazon’s entire value chain. We implement company-wide standards and commitments (such as our Global Human Rights Principles and Supply Chain Standards). We seek to continuously improve the tools and processes used in integrating human rights and environmental due diligence across the business.

We are looking for a Senior Human Rights and Environment Manager to support execution of our global strategies for advancing human rights and environmental due diligence across Amazon's value chain. This leader will be a major player in key program developments and be responsible for advising business teams on human rights and environmental due diligence activities across a variety of Amazon businesses.


Key job responsibilities
- Influence and collaborate with cross-functional internal and external stakeholders while driving leading management practices through capacity building and strategic communication.
- Execute human rights and environmental assessments and advise global business partners, company leadership, and key functions on corresponding risks and opportunities.
- Work alongside business engagement teams within WWS and with businesses to align on plans to address human rights and environmental risks identified.
- Facilitate discussions across multiple stakeholder groups to design and test human rights and environmental risk management mechanisms.
- Drive innovative solutions to challenging problems with a well-reasoned and solution-oriented vision, grounded in practical roadmaps and persistent prioritization.
- Quickly learn about and understand different Amazon teams and dive deep their unique needs, risks, and social and environmental impact opportunities.


About the team
This role sits on the Human Rights and Environmental Due Diligence (HREDD) team within the broader Social Responsibility program at Amazon, which in turn sits under Worldwide Sustainability (WWS). The HREDD team provides tactical and strategic support for business teams across Amazon in embedding respect for human rights and the environment into their everyday activities and decision-making.

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.