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Program Manager II, ACES, ATS ACES
Location not specified · Experience not specified
Experience- Experience not specified
Salary- Not disclosed
Location- Location not specified
- Work mode
- Not specified
- Job type
- Full-time
Apply by- Closing date not listed
- Posted
- 14 Jul 32
About this role
DescriptionOur overall mission is simple: we want Amazon to be the place where our customers can find, discover and buy anything online. Whatever our customers want, we will find the means to deliver it. With your help, Amazon will continue to enable people to discover new worlds and implement innovation.
This is your chance to make history.
Key job responsibilities
The ACES program manager will be supporting India Sort centers by driving multiple programs related to cost, quality etc. He/She will be working with site leadership to
- Deploy the SC Benchmarking processes which have been adapted for India to train ops leaders and establish sustainable mechanism in INSCs
- Drive productivity of India sort centers as per OP & IOP targets
- Use the PDCA methodology to drive small scale improvements in processes
- Use the Kaizen methodology to drive large scale process improvements or reduction in costs.
- Sustain roll out of CI essentials and Kaizen essentials training to managers.
- Align with WW ACES attempt to use “Amazonian terminology for ACES tools”. Develop robust systems and train operators to drive the value we expect Area Organization and Area Readiness
ACES Program Manager
ACES program managers are focused on supporting Sort Centers (SCs) improvements made on behalf of Amazon customers, to drive into standardization efforts, act as liaisons with other departments, provide process skills to the SCs, support SC launches, support SC Kaizen Events in their areas of expertise, and to run and coordinate cross-functional projects for successful implementation across the SCs.
The process owner’s mission is to help SCs succeed in scaling operations whilst meeting performance commitments through working hard and smart to strengthen standardization, by developing process improvement leaders with dive-deep process skills, by running and coordinating the top business efforts/projects and by supporting mechanisms generating a daily Kaizen culture of continuous root cause elimination, such as implementing improvements resulting from abnormalities identified in standard work initiatives.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Bangalore, KA, IND
Basic Qualifications
- Prior experience in a warehousing, sort center is must
- Knowledge of Lean, Six Sigma and Kaizen methodologies
- Prior experience of handling programs/projects involving stakeholders from cross functional teams
- Prior experience in handling contingent workforce would be an added advantage.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Ability to influence and partner with different levels of the organization to achieve results.
- Strong business acumen, including strong problem solving skills, critical thinking, and analysis.
- Strong understanding of Labor related laws and statutes
- Should be proficient in using MS Office, Excel and data related tools.
- PMP/Prince2 certification
- Lean practitioner certified
- Six Sigma Green/Black belt certified
- Knowledge of SQL, analytics, statistics is preferred
Job ID: A2539806