Sr. Program Manager
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Job Location:
Austin, TX - USA
Yearly Salary:
$ 104100 - 185000
Posted on:
18 days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Whole Foods is looking for a Program Manager with a strong delivery record and proven project management experience to own strategic tactical and cross-functional programs. The ideal candidate for this role is excited about the opportunity to make customer-facing changes and drive cost improvements for the business. This role require scoping and creating project plans developing processes coordinating and driving execution and communicating to senior management on status risks and process/product changes. Cross-team coordination project management and executive presentation skills are essential.
A highly analytical candidate with program/project management or grocery operations experience is an ideal fit as this role will require partnership with multiple teams (Tech Operations Analytics Finance Workforce Planning Delivery and other teams) to lead influence and support business critical projects and initiatives. Robust understanding of fulfillment operations including order fulfillment inventory flows constrained warehouse assets (capacity and labor) inventory health and long term roadmaps will help develop new innovations within complex ultra-fast operations.
You will be expected to interact with senior-level audiences to provide updates and make strategic recommendations that will achieve the long-term vision for optimal balance between business need and operator experience. Documentation of requirements project management and cross-team coordination skills are essential.
Key job responsibilities
-Designing and modeling new operations processes for developing business needs to prove quality cost and scalability goals as critical outputs.
-Gathering and analyzing data across inventory health and shrink in partnership with cross functional teams.
-Rethinking end to end operations to optimize for waste reduction and efficiency.
-Building strong partnership with operations field leaders to understand improvement opportunities.
-Analyzing and solving operational barriers with a focus on understanding root causes and driving forward solves.
-Leading project teams to plan organize and execute complex projects across multiple organizations and stakeholders to enable the launch of new projects and processes.
-Innovating to improve customer experience and continuously remove cost from our fulfillment network.
-Designing new metrics and enhancing existing metrics to support the future state of the business.
- 5 years of program or project management experience
- Experience using data and metrics to determine and drive improvements
- Experience owning program strategy end to end delivery and communicating results to senior leadership
- 2 years of driving process improvements experience
- Masters degree or MBA in business operations human resources adult education organizational development instructional design or related field
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process including support for the interview or onboarding process please visit for more information. If the country/region youre applying in isnt listed please contact your Recruiting Partner.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $104100/year in our lowest geographic market up to $185000/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity sign-on payments and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package in addition to a full range of medical financial and/or other benefits. For more information please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
A highly analytical candidate with program/project management or grocery operations experience is an ideal fit as this role will require partnership with multiple teams (Tech Operations Analytics Finance Workforce Planning Delivery and other teams) to lead influence and support business critical projects and initiatives. Robust understanding of fulfillment operations including order fulfillment inventory flows constrained warehouse assets (capacity and labor) inventory health and long term roadmaps will help develop new innovations within complex ultra-fast operations.
You will be expected to interact with senior-level audiences to provide updates and make strategic recommendations that will achieve the long-term vision for optimal balance between business need and operator experience. Documentation of requirements project management and cross-team coordination skills are essential.
Key job responsibilities
-Designing and modeling new operations processes for developing business needs to prove quality cost and scalability goals as critical outputs.
-Gathering and analyzing data across inventory health and shrink in partnership with cross functional teams.
-Rethinking end to end operations to optimize for waste reduction and efficiency.
-Building strong partnership with operations field leaders to understand improvement opportunities.
-Analyzing and solving operational barriers with a focus on understanding root causes and driving forward solves.
-Leading project teams to plan organize and execute complex projects across multiple organizations and stakeholders to enable the launch of new projects and processes.
-Innovating to improve customer experience and continuously remove cost from our fulfillment network.
-Designing new metrics and enhancing existing metrics to support the future state of the business.
- 5 years of program or project management experience
- Experience using data and metrics to determine and drive improvements
- Experience owning program strategy end to end delivery and communicating results to senior leadership
- 2 years of driving process improvements experience
- Masters degree or MBA in business operations human resources adult education organizational development instructional design or related field
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process including support for the interview or onboarding process please visit for more information. If the country/region youre applying in isnt listed please contact your Recruiting Partner.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $104100/year in our lowest geographic market up to $185000/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity sign-on payments and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package in addition to a full range of medical financial and/or other benefits. For more information please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
Required Experience:
Manager
Key Skills
- Project Management Methodology
- Project / Program Management
- Program Management
- Management Experience
- Microsoft Powerpoint
- Project Management
- Microsoft Project
- Budgeting
- DoD Experience
- Leadership Experience
- Supervising Experience
- Contracts
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