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Program Manager , Central Operations

Amazon

Amazon

Operations
Tokyo, Japan
Posted on Nov 26, 2025

Description

Central Operations (CO) serves as the backbone of Amazon Logistics (AMZL), enabling scalable management of our increasingly complex last-mile delivery network. CO plays a crucial role in executing optimal and cost-efficient route planning, labor planning, and last-mile on-road delivery experiences. This role offers an opportunity to support a rapidly evolving part of AMZL, leading the development of best-in-class operations that drive effective, real-time decisions to maximize both customer and driver experiences on the road.

As Program Mgr of Central operations , you will lead multiple programs to solve the customer problems that impacts customer promise and balance the cost. This role requires close partnership with Field Operations,, Product , Business Continuity, DSP, and ACES teams.

You will build and implement programs , systems, and mechanisms to execute the short and mid term solves and work with global (NA/EU) teams, you will drive both short-and long-term strategic enhancements to improve operator and customer experience , network resilience, and balance tradeoffs.. The ideal candidate is an analytical problem-solver who can balance a deep understanding of customer experience and ability to drive programs from conception through implementation at pace is essential , with strong stakeholder management, the ability to influence across organizations, and excellent communication skills with both technical and non-technical audiences.

This role requires strategic thinking to enhance our program capabilities while ensuring operational excellence in real-time response situations. The main tasks you will be responsible for in this position are as follows.:-

1)Business cycle management and strategy planning for the Central Operations (CO)
2)Formulation and development of medium- to long-term growth strategies for the new businesses at AMZL in CO


Key job responsibilities
- Designing and modeling new programs for developing business needs to prove quality, cost, and scalability goals as critical outputs.
- Gathering and analyzing data across order fulfillment functions to establish global standards for operations in partnership with cross functional teams.
- Building strong partnership with operations field leaders to understand improvement opportunities and drive bench marking study and standardization with NA/EU CO team
- Analyzing and solving operational barriers with a focus on understanding root causes and driving forward solves.
- Leading project teams to plan, organize, and execute complex projects across multiple organizations and stakeholders to enable the launch of new projects and processes.
- Innovating to improve customer experience and continuously remove cost from our fulfillment network.
- Designing new metrics and enhancing existing metrics to support the future state of the business.