Amazon

DESCRIPTION

The Global Project Management Office team is seeking a highly strategic Global Best Practices Lead to spearhead our Best Practice team within the Global Project Management Office (GPMO) for the Global Central Reliability & Maintenance Engineering Team (C-RME). This role plays a crucial part in ensuring the successful delivery of complex engineering projects by providing strategic oversight, coordination, and leadership.

The Global Best Practices Lead will collaborate with stakeholders and cross-functional teams to achieve project objectives, elevate quality standards, and pioneer innovative approaches to project management on a global scale.

Key job responsibilities

• Develop and implement program management strategies to achieve project objectives, including scope, schedule, budget, and quality.
• Coordinate a team of Project Managers and Engineers, providing direction, guidance, and support to ensure successful project execution.
• Establish and maintain project documentation, including project plans, risk assessments, and progress reports.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define project requirements and goals, and ensure alignment with the organizations objectives.
• Monitor project performance and take corrective actions as necessary to keep projects on track and within budget.
• Identify and manage risks, issues, and dependencies across multiple projects, and provide timely solutions.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement by optimizing project management processes and procedures.
• Manage customer and stakeholder relationships, ensuring effective communication and customer satisfaction.
• Stay updated on industry best practices and advancements in Engineering to drive innovation and excellence.
• Position includes international travel up to 25%

About the team

The Global RME Project Management Office (PMO) team provides a customer-facing centralized project management solution for continuous improvements, best practices, technical service bulletins, permanent corrective actions and reliability improvement actions which requires RME resources. Our goal is to provide a stage-gate project process from intake, scoping, execution, post-go live support, completion tracking and reporting.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience using data and metrics to determine and drive improvements
• Experience owning program strategy, end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership
• Experience in program or project management
• Experience working cross functionally with tech and non-tech teams
• Experience implementing repeatable processes and driving automation or standardization
• Experience defining and executing program requirements
• Experience with Automated technology for Material Handling Equipment (MHE) and Robotics.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree in supply chain, business, engineering, finance or related technical or quantitative field
• Experience leading process improvements
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office products and applications (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Visio, and MS Project) at an advanced level
• Knowledge of Asana Project Management Platform
• PMP Certification
• Experience manipulating and analyzing data

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