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DESCRIPTION

Amazon’s Dangerous Goods (DG) team is looking for a Risk Specialist to plan and execute dangerous goods compliance projects and maintain operational performance in Brazil.

The DG Risk Specialist will ensure DG products meet applicable local and global regulatory requirements, strategize with internal stakeholders to support business expansion, develop best-in-class standard operational processes, improve them and provide support to stakeholders during the implementation phase.

The ideal candidate will maintain and continually seek opportunities to improve existing processes via benchmark and best practices while interacting with a broad group of stakeholders and functions. They will need to be able to work in an ambiguous environment, while managing projects and diving deep into operations. It also requires an aptitude to adapt to scope changes, to propose solutions, to be able to drive processes across Amazon’s expanding network and linking into local/regional and global initiatives.

Key job responsibilities
- Identify opportunities to leverage technology to build and improve upon a best-in-class systems for Dangerous Goods transportation
- Identify regulatory risks in new products, services and provide guidance for risk mitigation
- Interpret new or changing regulations related to Dangerous Goods transportation in the different shipping modes: ground, air and sea; to determine how they apply to our business operations
- Provide end-to-end Dangerous Goods compliance project management support and guidance for complex business and operations projects/initiatives.

A day in the life
This individual will work closely with numerous internal partner teams, including: Amazon Fulfillment Technology, Transportation, Catalog, Classification, Legal, Retail, FBA (Fullfilled by Amazon), and our operations teams.

The Risk Specialist will demonstrate excellent judgment and instincts in decision-making, and proactively and continually improve their level of knowledge of Amazon’s businesses, fulfillment models, and relevant technologies.

A successful candidate will work across senior levels of leadership in multiple organizations to align on processes and proposed controls on a local/regional and global scale while delivering high-quality work on time.

About the team
At Amazon, we're working to be the most customer-centric company on earth and to grow in a safe environment for both our Customers and our Associates. Are you comfortable digging into business requirements and collaborating with business and technical teams to launch new capabilities improving the customer experience? To get there, we need exceptionally talented, bright, dynamic and passionate people. If you'd like to help us build the place to find and buy anything online, this is your chance to make history.