Strategy & Planning Manager, RISC

Team Vision and Mission:
Our goal is to establish Amazon as the worlds most reliable shopping platform for safe and compliant products. We are committed to shielding customers from unsafe illegal controversial or policy-violating products while enabling our Selling Partners to offer a wide range of safe and compliant products. We intend to achieve this on a global scale by (1) Enabling Safety and compliance through a science-first approach to provide customers with trustworthy listings (2) Validating safety and compliance of products listed for sale via high sophisticated proactive and reactive controls and compliance (3) Creating user-friendly tools to simplify the compliance process for our Selling Partners (3) Actively engaging with external stakeholders to build public trust in our dedication to customer safety (4) Disincentivizing bad actors from participating in our stores and (5) Innovating to reduce operational costs.

Required Skills
This position demands a unique blend of strategic thinking analytical rigor and operational acumen. The ideal candidate must be able to synthesize complex data into actionable insights drive structured planning processes at scale and navigate ambiguity with sound judgment and high-velocity decision-making. Strong proficiency in building and managing business review mechanisms defining metrics and crafting compelling executive-level narratives is essential. Candidates must excel at communicating complex technical regulatory and operational topics in clear concise business language to senior leadership and cross-functional stakeholders. A passion for leveraging AI and emerging technologies to drive efficiency and innovation is highly valued. The role requires a collaborative mindset you must be comfortable operating as a trusted advisor to senior leaders while partnering effectively across engineering legal policy and operations teams to deliver results. A commitment to fostering team culture employee engagement and continuous learning is equally important as this role plays a key part in building organizational capability and developing talent.

Key job responsibilities
Own and drive the end-to-end strategic planning mechanisms for the WW Product Safety & Compliance organization including annual operating plans (OP1/OP2) 3-year vision documents and long-range strategic roadmaps.

Design build and manage recurring business review mechanisms (WBR MBR QBR) ensuring the right metrics narratives and escalation paths are in place to drive accountability and operational excellence.

Develop and maintain the organizations strategic narrative translating complex compliance and safety priorities into clear compelling documents for senior leadership and cross-functional stakeholders.

Champion the adoption and integration of AI and automation technologies across planning reporting and compliance workstreams identifying high-impact use cases and driving implementation to improve speed accuracy and scalability of the organizations operations.

Partner cross-functionally with engineering legal policy and operations teams to align strategic priorities track dependencies and ensure execution against commitments.

Define and track key performance indicators and success metrics across the portfolio building dashboards and reporting mechanisms that provide visibility into progress and gaps.

Champion employee engagement initiatives across the organization partnering with leadership to develop and execute strategies that foster a positive inclusive and high-performing team culture.

Support talent development and succession planning efforts ensuring the organization is building the capabilities needed to meet current and future strategic priorities.

Lead strategic special projects and ad-hoc analyses as directed by the Head of Product Safety & Compliance synthesizing ambiguous inputs into actionable plans.

Identify and drive process improvements to planning and governance mechanisms raising the bar on rigor efficiency and strategic clarity across the organization.

- 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
- Knowledge of general AI tools
- Experience designing implementing and scaling upskilling apprenticeship or workforce development programs across large-scale operations or corporate environments including forecasting workforce needs and leveraging analytics to drive program decisions

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at VA Arlington - 115600.00 - 160000.00 USD annually
USA WA Seattle - 115600.00 - 160000.00 USD annually