Description

Are you passionate about improving the quality of Selling Partner experiences? Do you strive to create customer-centric solutions that drive measurable results? Do you like to design and implement scalable end-to-end solutions built on sound process excellence principles? Does leading resource coordination and priority setting across teams, countries and cultures sound exciting? If so, the Selling Partner Support team is looking for a Manager, to build and manage large-scale Dive deep programs for our global operations, Program and Product teams, that impact our Associates and Selling partners positively.

Third-party sellers represent significant value to Amazon’s online retail customers and Selling Partner Support (SPS) drives success for these sellers through a combination of people, processes and services. We are a primary interface between Selling Partners and Amazon by direct interaction between our associates and sellers, by building communication tools that sellers use to receive help, and by driving cross-functional initiatives to improve the seller experience. Additionally, we possess a wealth of data regarding the reason sellers contact us for help and we use this information to identify and drive improvements to our seller solutions across the Company.

As a Manager for Selling Partner Support, you will be responsible for identifying, driving and tracking strategic initiatives that improve the selling partner experience and will measure the results by monitoring quality, efficiency metrics and contacts. In this high profile role, you will collaborate with numerous business teams, product, and program teams both inside and outside Selling Partner Support to identify, define and specify solutions that create the conditions for sellers’ success and satisfaction. You will build collaborative relationships with these partners, working closely to support SX improvement roadmaps. You will prepare and execute regular program updates to senior management.

The successful candidate will be input focused and will have isolated and correlated inputs to achieve impactful outputs, built closed loop processes and measures to ensure adoption of products and processes so that improvements are realized. She/he will also have proven ability to assess situations and guide teams toward both short-term and longer term systemic changes. The ideal candidate will possess an analytic, statistical and optimization background to enable strategic workforce planning and strategic service initiatives planning. In this role you will experience a wide range of problem solving situations, strategic to real-time, requiring extensive use of data collection and analysis.

At Amazon, we believe innovation should occur throughout the organization. This disruptive leader will stimulate and pioneer innovation in Seller service excellence and be an active voice and member of the Selling Partner Support leadership team.

Key job responsibilities

• Interact with stakeholders at multiple levels and dynamically lead business and product teams to define and deliver solutions to establish standard processes.

• Build effective people management mechanisms to engage team.

• Support people growth in the team through effective coaching and mentoring.

• Identify and analyze data to isolate issues, develop solutions and prioritize opportunities for Seller experience improvements.

• Determine and implement effective Operations solutions quickly, so as to not impede production

• Plan and manage parallel projects with rigorous prioritization.

• Maximize resource utilization for the greater good of the organization.

• Create, maintain and disseminate project information to stakeholders and senior management

• Remain flexible to changing priorities, open to new ideas and have seller quality as the top focus.

• Be a visible and vocal role model across the wider business for Amazon’s customer-centric culture, championing Seller’s needs and using data and technology to anticipate and exceed them.

Longer term, this leader will:

• Stimulate new innovative thinking and fresh approaches to extend Amazon’s leadership position in service to our Sellers.

• Ensure Amazon’s Seller Operations effectively scale to meet the needs of the rapidly growing business, including identifying and implementing process improvements throughout our Global Network.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Hyderabad, TS, IND

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of team management experience

• 5+ years of program or project management experience

• 5+ years of cross functional project delivery experience

• 5+ years of working cross functionally with tech and non-tech teams experience

• Experience defining program requirements and using data and metrics to determine improvements

• Experience managing teams

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience managing, analyzing and communicating results to senior leadership