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About Amazon.com
“Many of the problems we face have no textbook solution, and so we-happily-invent new ones.” – Jeff Bezos
Amazon.com – a place where builders can build. We hire the world's brightest minds and offer them an environment in which they can invent and innovate to improve the experience for our customers. A Fortune 100 company based in Seattle, Washington, Amazon is the global leader in e-commerce. Amazon offers everything from books and electronics to apparel and diamond jewelry. We operate sites in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, Spain, United Kingdom and United States, and maintain dozens of fulfillment centers around the world which encompass more than 26 million square feet.
Technological innovation drives the growth of Amazon, offering our customers more selection, convenient shopping, and low prices. Amazon Web Services provides developers and small to large businesses access to the horizontally scalable state of the art cloud infrastructure like S3, EC2, AMI, CloudFront and SimpleDB, that powers Amazon.com. Developers can build any type of business on Amazon Web Services and scale their application with growing business needs.
We want you to help share and shape our mission to be Earth's most customer-centric company. Amazon's evolution from Web site to e-commerce partner to development platform is driven by the spirit of invention that is part of our DNA. We do this every day by inventing elegant and simple solutions to complex technical and business problems. We're making history and the good news is that we've only just begun.
About Student Programs (SP)
Amazon hires over 12,000 students around the world each year, and this talent is critical to achieving Amazon's mission of being earth's most customer-centric company. The Global Student Programs (SP) team’s mission is to attract, hire, and integrate student talent from all backgrounds to build the future of Amazon's global workforce. We are responsible for finding diverse, bar-raising students, delivering a frustration-free candidate experience, and ultimately connecting talent to the most in-demand opportunities at Amazon.
About the Role
Program Manager, Internships will develop and enhance Amazon’s internship program for all student hires across APAC region in a scalable manner. The incumbent will be responsible for owning, planning and executing everything the internship function does across the region by partnering closely with various stakeholders including hiring managers, business leaders, recruiters, recruiting managers as well as peers from other regions. This person will also own and identify a number of new initiatives with broad cross-organizational, cross-regional, or significant business impact. These could include deep-dives on particular program areas, as well as identifying new opportunities. This role will involve delivering a consistent experience to each intern regardless of their team, role, duration and country.
The right candidate will possess a hybrid program/project management background with demonstrated experience leading simultaneous initiatives as well as extensive experience across the breadth of program management work streams. Our team works in a fast-paced, global environment and someone who thrives working on complex projects and is comfortable interacting with a wide range of stakeholders across all levels would be well-suited for this role.
Responsibilities
· Program Managing the 'Emerge' Onboarding program for FTE campus hires across APAC
· Build project plans, mechanisms to operate and audit the Emerge program across multiple tracks, business segments and locales
· Drive and manage detailed data analysis to shape and scope solutions; ability to partner with and influence teams and stakeholders at a global level
· Be willing to "roll up sleeves" and operate with limited guidance and in ambiguous situations
· Set metrics and monitor the effectiveness of ongoing strategies; recommend and implement changes as required
Key job responsibilities
Responsibilities
· Program Managing the 'Emerge' Onboarding program for FTE campus hires across APAC
· Build project plans, mechanisms to operate and audit the Emerge program across multiple tracks, business segments and locales
· Drive and manage detailed data analysis to shape and scope solutions; ability to partner with and influence teams and stakeholders at a global level
· Be willing to "roll up sleeves" and operate with limited guidance and in ambiguous situations
· Set metrics and monitor the effectiveness of ongoing strategies; recommend and implement changes as required
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 2+ years experience in program or project management
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
· MBA with 3-5 years of experience in program management at a global corporate entity
· Experience measuring program impact against pre-defined success metrics
· Proven ability to employ data-driven and transparent decision-making processes
· Experience working with and influencing senior business leaders
· Experience in driving scalable programs end-to-end with proven ability to identify and drive continuous improvement.
· Proficiency in project planning methodologies and tools, ability to scale tools to automated solutions (e.g. project management tools with automated dependency management)
· Bias for action, excellent attention to detail and relentless commitment to follow-through
· Prior experience of working with teams across countries