Program Manager, Infrastructure Change Management, Ww Retail Growth & Development

DESCRIPTION Are you looking for an innovative, fast-paced, highly-collaborative environment? If so, come join Worldwide Retail Growth and Development! The Worldwide Retail Growth and Development team is responsible for the strategic planning, acquisition, design, construction, launch, and maintenance of Amazon Worldwide Grocery Stores' real estate assets. This includes Whole Foods Market, Amazon grocery stores, and industrial properties that fulfill online grocery orders.
WWRGD Infrastructure Change Management is looking for a Program Manager with project management and design or construction experience to own strategic and tactical delivery of network expansion in a critical business portfolio. This role requires scoping and creating plans, coordinating and driving execution, and communicating across a variety of stakeholder teams.
Key job responsibilities
-Manage and drive continuous improvement of the change management intake and decision-making mechanism
-Own cross-team coordination, project/process management and executive presentation. Ensure alignment with business stakeholders and internal teams such as Design, Construction, Finance, and Capital Planning
-Critically assess change requests and ensure business justification, financial analysis, and timeline impacts are quantified. Identify appropriate stakeholders and approvers for change requests, and manage mechanisms to gain alignment
-Dive deep in understanding the product, our business and the competitive landscape
-Partner with other program managers to secure resources, scope efforts, set project priorities and milestones and drive delivery
-Own program communication, accelerate progress by driving crisp and timely decisions, clearing blockers (e.g., path to green), escalating as appropriate
-Establish and drive to meet operational goals and metrics for the portfolio
-Present operational metrics regularly to the leadership teams
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Arlington, VA, USA | Chicago, IL, USA | Nashville, TN, USA | New York City, NY, USA | Seattle, WA, USA BASIC QUALIFICATIONS - 3+ years of program or project management experience
- 3+ years of defining and implementing process improvement initiatives using data and metrics experience
- Experience using data and metrics to determine and drive improvements
- Experience working cross functionally with tech and non-tech teams