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GES NA D&C Governance seeks to enhance operational excellence by hiring a dedicated leader to transform and integrate our Value Engineering, Portfolio, Cost, and Quality Management functions. This role will develop and execute a comprehensive roadmap and program to optimize these critical business functions and drive measurable improvements in organizational performance. The program will include significant and complex initiatives that span multiple teams, and include processes, software systems and tool development. The successful candidate will be a strong communicator and develop best practices for business facing documentation including roadmaps, MBRs, and business requirements documents.
Key job responsibilities
- Develop strategic roadmap for future state operating procedures, systems and technologies across GES NA D&C, including program milestones, budget, resource requirements, stakeholders, decision-making framework and success criteria
- Develop strong partnerships with Governance Pillar leads, global D&C teams, and counterpart planning, execution and technical teams. Facilitate cross-organizational alignment on end-to-end strategic business decisions. Be excellent at telling the story
- Establish baseline metrics and KPIs for business, system and technology functions
- Lead stakeholder engagement, establish regular communication channels on initiatives
- Develop and implement change management strategies for business and technology implementations
- Drive execution of overall program, monitor progress, remove obstacles, report risks and dive deep as needed
- Drive continuous improvement of Governance and D&C process and mechanisms required to deliver D&C owned programs, and ensure adherence to those mechanisms and processes through KPI development and tracking
- Develop and scale best practices related to technical document writing, new product development, technical program management and lifecycle management
- Develop new product roadmaps for future improvements within D&C, across GES and internationally
A day in the life
If you are not sure that every qualification on the list above describes you exactly, we'd still love to hear from you! At Amazon, we value people with unique backgrounds, experiences, and skillsets. If you’re passionate about this role and want to make an impact on a global scale, please apply!
Amazon offers a full range of benefits that support you and eligible family members, including domestic partners and their children. Benefits can vary by location, the number of regularly scheduled hours you work, length of employment, and job status such as seasonal or temporary employment. The benefits that generally apply to regular, full-time employees include:
1. Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage
2. Maternity and Parental Leave Options
3. Paid Time Off (PTO)
4. 401(k) Plan
About the team
GES D&C is responsible to deliver a vast program of physical infrastructure projects throughout the Amazon North America Operations network. The GES NA D&C Governance team is responsible for driving an all-mile, next-level customer experience through cost, quality, portfolio management, and project controls. This team also ensures proactive customer updates, outward communication and holistically manages risk across NA D&C.