Senior Startup Project Manager, Emerging Countries (Mérida)

Description

Amazon is seeking a Senior Project Manager to oversee and coordinate the execution of successful new build infrastructure and expansion/retrofit projects in our General Engineering Services (GES) Organization. This individual will lead a team of support personnel and coordinate the resources required to launch new and complex projects with the goals of achieving timelines, staying within budget, and driving standardization within our network. The Senior Project Manager will manage medium to large capital projects with inflexible schedule commitments. The Senior Project Manager will lead and coordinate schedule of multiple vendors at the same time, as well as interface at all levels of the organization.

Key job responsibilities

• Manage new and existing programs, successfully delivering difficult projects and goals across multiple organizations
• Partner with other program managers to secure resources, scope efforts, set project priorities and milestones, and drive delivery
• Owns program communication, accelerating progress by driving crisp and timely decisions, clearing blockers (e.g., path to green), escalating as appropriate
• Influence design and development of strategic processes
• Work with program managers and business leaders to communicate and impact critical business initiatives
• Develop, implement, and govern the execution of all business, technical, fiscal, and administrative functions of the assigned program, project, or sub-task
• Provide accountability while reporting on status, asking for help, and immediately escalating issues and problems as necessary
• Responsible for overall project schedule that enables the teams to be successful based upon the project milestones and Go‑Live

Position includes travel up to 50%.

A day in the life

• Monday: Stakeholder Weekly Meeting / Site Walk / Budget Report / Meetings / Project Incentive Work
• Wednesday: Safety Walk / Order Review with Procurement / Non-Inventory Review with Site 3PL / Risk Management / PMO Reporting
• Friday: Update Project Health Tracker / File Travel expenses / Book Travel 3 Weeks Out / Document Lessons Learned / Team Meeting / One-on-One / Project Meetings / Update Travel Calendar

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree
• Experience in program or project management
• Experience defining program requirements and using data and metrics to determine improvements
• Experience working cross-functionally with non-tech teams
• 4+ years of cross-functional project delivery experience
• Speak, write, and read fluently in English
• Team management experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience implementing repeatable processes and driving automation or standardization
• 4+ years of driving end-to-end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership experience
• Experience working with multiple groups of stakeholders
• Experience in project management including resource planning, managing schedules, reporting project status, and prioritizing tasks
• Proficiency in any of the following languages; Portuguese, French, Polish, Arabic, Turkish, Afrikaans and Zulu.