Senior Business Manager, Data Center Safety, Security, and Environmental

Amazon is looking for a Senior Business Manager to join the AWS Safety Security and Environmental team. This team is responsible for building the foundation for the worlds innovation by creating the most safe secure and environmentally compliant working environments which enables our Data Center Community (DCC) to support our customers. We accomplish this by implementing consistent safety environmental and security controls methods and metrics in all DCC spaces to eliminate risk. We foster a self-driven culture of exhibiting high standards and inclusion among our teams and stakeholders. Where possible we automate processes to protect builders customers and assets.

Amazon offers a fast paced fun and exciting work environment. We continue to grow at exponential rates and are looking for individuals that can support our speed to market enjoy a challenge and have a desire for professional growth and continuous learning experiences.

As the Senior Business Manager you will own and drive the execution of resource management and planning for the division partnering with leadership to translate near and long-term vision into actionable plans that align with broader DCC strategic planning. You will exercise deep expertise on all processes variables and tooling that impact Resource Planning. This includes (1) CAPEX and OPEX management; (2) the various infrastructure drivers and metrics that impact headcount scaling; and (3) tooling that enables continuous audit to ensure parity between resourcing supply and demand. Further you will own and drive the key inputs that affect divisional hiring performance and productivity developing and maintaining metrics that enable performance measurement in these areas. The Business Manager must earn trust with partner teams such as Finance and multiple deployment teams in order to expand mechanisms and strategies beyond the division and ensure the full scope of needs are captured on behalf of the addition as a key representative of the division the Senior Business Manager must effectively interact with and earn trust from partners external to the sub-division and in some cases external to AWS. Such interactions may include arranging and facilitating off-site events with senior executives to advance global initiatives coordinating business activities with partners in Talent Acquisition and Human Resources.

The ideal candidates will have excellent analytical abilities outstanding business acumen and judgment intense curiosity and superior written and verbal communication skills. They will have a strong bias toward data driven decision making. They will be a self-starter; comfortable with ambiguity; able to think big and be creative while exercising strong judgment and good instincts to be right a lot. The ideal candidate is motivated by delivering high-quality analyses and recommendations that change the operational business direction within timeframes that most think are impossible. If you are excited about enabling a global Safety Security and Environmental team to deliver for AWS customers this role is for you!

Key job responsibilities
You are a key contributor to the strategic direction for Data Center Safety Security and Environmental team. You influence strategy by diving deep with supporting business verticals synthesizing insights and bringing informed recommendations to leadership. You work with leaders to craft measurable goals that execute on this strategy implement monthly tracking mechanisms and ensure clear reporting on the most critical goals.

You own defining business requirements and level of effort for resource planning across the organization including CAPEX and headcount needs. You partner with Finance to translate requirements into funded plans advocate for adequate resourcing and review plans with leadership to ensure business needs are accurately captured and defended.

You develop divisional hiring targets incorporating expected attrition and pending starts analyze actual hiring activity against these targets monthly facilitate leaderships active management of hiring performance and produce associated weekly and monthly reports.

You develop quarterly analyses and recommendations on employee productivity including inputs/metrics that influence productivity performance against those metrics and recommendations to ensure the division meets productivity goals.

About the team
Why AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the worlds most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating thats why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Diverse Experiences
Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting hasnt followed a traditional path or includes alternative experiences dont let it stop you from applying.

Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home theres nothing we cant achieve in the cloud.

Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS its in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Mentorship and Career Growth
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- 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 Herndon - 115600.00 - 160000.00 USD annually