We believe that everyone who comes to Amazon should be able to build their career. Amazon Career Choice empowers employees to learn new skills for career success at Amazon or elsewhere.
Career Choice transitions associates advance their careers. We do this by building relationships with businesses both internal and external to Amazon to establish hiring partnerships and deeply understand the roles that are in demand. We then identify select and manage educational provider partners that can best prepare associates for these roles. For us success is an associate completing an educational program and then being placed in a job using the skills they learned during the program.
We are looking to hire a highly analytical creative systemsthinker with good judgment who can drive results by working collaboratively with both internal and external stakeholders. This role will focus on designing and managing educational programs that are based on employer needs to create seamless pathways to new upwardly mobile career fields. Our team takes a datadriven approach to measure success and focus efforts on maximizing outcomes for associates.
We expect that you come to the team with experience in postsecondary education vocational education and training workforce development and/or highvolume entrylevel talent acquisition. You will be responsible for identifying and developing hiring partnerships with employers both internal and external to Amazon seeking hiring commitments from these employers selecting educational partners providing feedback on program design and curriculum facilitating regular business reviews and facilitating strategic interventions to facilitate positive outcomes for Amazon associates.
Key job responsibilities
Drive overall program strategy for an assigned Field of Study (e.g. Technology Transportation Healthcare) as well as tactically engaging teams within and outside our organization to deliver highquality program options for Amazon associates
Develop new relationships with businesses inside and outside of Amazon to hire Career Choice graduates
Identify and learn from highperforming educational provider partners
Apply advanced knowledge of postsecondary education and systems to coordinate program design and launch within schedule and budget constraints
Set objectives analyze data drive improvements that are quantified with metrics; influence resource allocation based on those metrics
Write clear effective narratives and presentations to communicate progress and outcomes at the executive level
Lead complex medium to largescale projects that are business critical and may be global in nature. May lead other benefit managers and team members for large projects
Recommend improvements to the way our programs are scoped built and deployed
Make smart tradeoffs (e.g. time vs. effort vs. deliverables) and create plans that have clear measurable success criteria
Solve ambiguous problems and proactively identify and mitigate risks before they become roadblocks
3 years of program or project management experience
3 years of defining and implementing process improvement initiatives using data and metrics experience
Knowledge of Excel (Pivot Tables VLookUps) at an advanced level and SQL
Experience using data and metrics to determine and drive improvements
Experience working cross functionally with tech and nontech teams
3 years of driving end to end delivery and communicating results to senior leadership experience
3 years of driving process improvements experience
Experience in stakeholder management dealing with multiple stakeholders at varied levels of the organization
Experience building processes project management and schedules
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