DESCRIPTION

Does the challenge that comes from driving complex, large scale projects for one of the largest employers excite you? Do you enjoy working in an entrepreneurial environment and delivering innovative solutions that enable your team and stakeholders to do their jobs more effectively and accurately by streamlining existing processes through leveraging technology?
The Global Amazon Payroll Team is seeking a Senior Program Manager to drive large scale initiatives impacting North American Payroll. This position is responsible for facilitating the successful deployment of each initiative through collaboration with both our internal and external partners, as well as ensuring that we enhance and improve our existing processes and procedures through automation when possible.

Key job responsibilities
* Define and develop the project plan, deployment approach, and stakeholder engagement model for a large scale system transition.
* Lead your team to analyze business needs, system functionality, and align on requirements.
* Measure, evaluate, and report on the status of the program.
* Drive innovation and break through improvements in your team’s processes and practices.
* Identify the opportunities that will provide ways to scale while leveraging technology.
* Partner with other Amazon teams impacted by your initiatives to align timelines and expectations.
* Work with operations teams to drive improvements.
* Create and manage the communication strategy for promoting and highlighting your strategy, priorities, and the status of your projects/program.

A day in the life
Your primary focus within Payroll will be to partner with our internal payroll team as well as our external technical partners, HR, benefits, and more to gather requirements, assess existing system functionality vs. future state, and proactively identify gaps, and drive solutions. The ability to work cross functionally and to identify barriers is imperative to the success of these projects, and being able to dive deep and develop subject matter expertise of our core system functionality and upstream systems will be critical to accomplishing this. Further, you will continue to drive continuous improvement post deployment of these projects.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Hyderabad, TS, IND | Pune, MH, IND

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 5+ years of working cross functionally with tech and non-tech teams experience
- 5+ years of program or project management experience
- 5+ years of delivering cross functional projects experience
- Experience defining program requirements and using data and metrics to determine improvements
- Experience in complex problem solving, and working in a tight schedule environment

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- 2+ years of driving process improvements experience
- Master's degree, or MBA in business, operations, human resources, adult education, organizational development, instructional design or related field
- 5+ Years of Experience with Payroll/HCM Systems