Program Manager, HR Amazon
Seattle, WA

Job Description

At Amazon, we're working to be the most customer-centric company on earth. To get there, we need exceptionally talented, bright, and driven people. If you'd like to help us make history, here's your chance to accelerate our growth and ability to serve our customers through Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) within the Employee Services organization.

The HR Program Manager will lead critical initiatives focused on projects to legal entity changes. They will serve as the primary funnel to coordinate all Employee Services entity-related activities and be responsible for ensuring a positive employee experience in all aspects of the restructuring. This role will be based in Seattle, but will have a global focus. The role will report to the Employee Services Global Portfolio Manager, M&A.

In addition to supporting all Employees Services aspects of legal entities, this position will also play a critical role in transforming our ES M&A portfolio into a lean, efficient and metrics-driven organization, and defining standard processes to drive a global consistency.

The ideal candidate has a passion for process and operational improvement, and a track record of thinking outside of the box to deliver innovations to better serve customers. The right candidate will have expertise in either process improvement, program/project management or HR specialist functions. While M&A experience is not required, experience managing projects and competing priorities in a matrixed organization is strongly preferred.

What you'll do:

* Perform hands on project management such as development of project plans, scheduling and planning, monitoring and status reporting against planned deliverables, benefits and milestones, resource and program tracking, development and management of risk, issue and action logs.
* Build and maintain successful partnerships with global Employee Services teams, HR stakeholders and key business sponsors across the Americas, EMEA, and APAC regions.
* As required, partner with external vendors/parties to ensure teams are engaged and effectively utilizing the best tools available.
* Proactively identifies solutions to meet business objectives, taking into account the implications of change on the organization and all stakeholders.
* Using own initiative to develop or improve project management processes and tools. Ensure project tools, best practices and lessons learned are documented.
* Ensure smooth project execution by monitoring and auditing key tasks across HR work streams, including compliance.
* Support on-going efforts to enhance our capabilities through training, development and program improvements.
* Assess new initiatives and projects to evaluate how they can support the strategic goals of ES M&A portfolio and its growth.
* Ability to travel as needed