Amazon

DESCRIPTION

Amazon is seeking an experienced Program Manager to support Learning and Development Program initiatives for EU Engineering Services. This role will report to the Learning Regional Manager for EMEA. Successful candidates are natural self-starters who have prior engineering and/or project /program management experience. The Program Manager will be responsible for identifying, creating, and standardizing training programs for a EMEA organization in cooperation with the Global Engineering Services teams. These programs will build knowledge, maximize individual and team effectiveness, and standardized best practices across all teams. The Program Manager will deep dive customer feedback to continuously improve the program quality and relevance based on the needs of the organization.

Would you like an opportunity to travel and work in multiple countries and cultures? The role will be based in UK with up to 20% of time on job travel, either domestically or to other EMEA countries

Key job responsibilities

• Evaluate and integrate new training strategies, technologies, courses, products, and analytics as required to meet the training needs of all teams
• Support on-boarding program for GES New Hires in Europe.
• Support timely updates, revisions and improvements of existing course syllabi and materials
• Engage with product vendors and trainer teams to develop tailored training agendas
• Manage training program budgets, procurement contracts, and licensing records
• Integrate new product releases and team/trainee feedback into future training content
• Work directly with leadership to develop strategic training plans and technical certification programs
• Develop effective “train the trainer” programs and ensure that these facilitators’ knowledge, tools, and mechanisms are current and relevant.
• Travel up to 20% to interact with internal and external business leaders and attend various meetings.

A day in the life

The program manager will work with Design and Construction, Ops Engineering, Startup, PMO, Launch, teams and many more to understand and meet the Learning needs of each team. They will curate, source and where needed, create training for these teams, as well as track effectiveness and make improvements to Learning programs.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, Education or related field
• Experience as a learning/training manager, project manager, program manager, or engineering manager
• Experience designing and developing training for engineers or project support teams
• Experience managing training program budgets

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Master’s degree Engineering, Business, Education, or related field
• Experience within a fast-paced construction or field operations environment
• Experience with Microsoft Office products (Excel, Project and Outlook)
• Experience working with engineering and construction teams to create training content
• French, German, Polish, Portuguese, Arabic, Turkish, Afrikaans and Zulu are considered preferred qualifications.

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