Data Center Program Manager, Strategic Initiatives
1 month ago
The successful candidate will have excellent analytical abilities and strong attention to details to identify risks and ask the right technical questions to ensure appropriate trade-offs are made when negotiating resources, determining priorities, and escalating successfully. They must possess solid business acumen to understand and support the strategic direction of organizational goals. Strong written and oral communication skills are required to lead effective meetings with key stakeholders to drive business and technical discussions toward results. They will be fully competent in a variety of project management tools, methodologies and techniques for all phases of the project lifecycle and exhibit demonstrated proficiency in core project management disciplines including initiation, planning, budgeting, resourcing, risk management, reporting on key metrics, quality control, and closeout.
As a Data Center Program Manager, you must be able to develop and maintain deep global subject matter expertise in data center design approaches and an end-to-end understanding of critical infrastructure systems to facilitate technical trade-offs between short-term team needs and long-term business needs. You will be expected to take ownership and influence positive change, deploying and leveraging analytical data to drive quality, productivity, and cost improvements. Responsibilities include providing strategic insight across stakeholder teams during monthly business reviews and producing accurate and timely reporting on program status to business and finance partners.
If you are a self-starter comfortable with ambiguity, enjoy new challenges in an ever-changing environment, are vocally self-critical, and are naturally curious, this job is for you. The position is based in Sydney, Australia, and will require up to 25% travel to support regional teams across Americas, Asia, and Europe.
Key job responsibilities
* Create and manage goals in safety, quality, team productivity, vendor performance, and cost control.
* Developing and leveraging analytical metrics to measure success of program goals.
* Producing accurate and timely reporting on program status for business and finance partners.
* Planning and hosting value stream mapping events with key stakeholders to measure work throughput, identify inefficiencies, determine root causes, and develop solutions to optimize processes to support program success.
* Gathering feedback from internal customers and stakeholders to drive program improvements.
* Applying change, risk, and resource management to adapt as organizational demands change.
* Developing new programs to support the strategic direction of the team with organizational goals.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Sydney, NSW, AUS
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
* Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, related fields, or equivalent experience (in lieu of degree).* 5+ years of experience in technical project/program management.
* 5+ years experience driving programs across cross-functional teams.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
* Experience managing global programs to deliver critical infrastructure projects in the data center industry.* Experience in project scheduling, budgeting, performance monitoring, data analysis, metrics reporting, resource management, and capacity planning.
* The ideal candidate is a creative leader with strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
* The successful candidate has a customer focus, diverse work experience, and business curiosity/strategic viewpoint.
* Experience with industry-leading project management and scheduling tools (e.g., MS Project, Procore, Primavera P6, etc.).
* Experience with business intelligence and data visualization and reporting tools (e.g., Tableau).
* Intermediate to expert proficiency with MS Excel (i.e., pivot tables, lookups, macros, etc.).
* Knowledge of change management principles, methodologies and tools.
* PMP Certification and knowledge of Six Sigma / Lean Processes.
* Experience with data mining, machine learning, and data analysis is plus.
* Meets/exceeds Amazon’s leadership principles requirements for this role.
* Meets/exceeds Amazon’s functional/technical depth and complexity for this role.
Acknowledgement of country:
In the spirit of reconciliation Amazon acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.
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