
Risk Manager I, Linehaul
at Amazon
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**Risk Manager I, Linehaul role**: Monitor and mitigate risks in Amazon's Surface Transportation (ST) operations, collaborating with legal, finance, and HR. Key responsibilities: apply risk management methodologies, develop risk mitigation strategies, and ensure timely project delivery. Required skills: sound judgment, technical expertise, and advanced technology know-how. Experience level: rotational shift model, including nights and rotating weekends.
*The role operates on a rotational shift model (including nights and rotational weekoffs) to provide round-the-clock risk coverage across time zones.
Key job responsibilities
• Apply risk-management best practices/methodologies to mitigate the risk issues you manage, to improve risk-related processes, and to help resolve blocking problems
• Develop appropriate milestones and launch project schedules to ensure timely and successful delivery of a project and standard work (e.g., audits/reviews, licensing).
• Identifies gaps in controls and processes and Consult legal for guidance on specific use cases or escalations based on manager direction
• Seek guidance to ensure your program stays aligned with the risk strategy, regulations, policies, and team objectives.
• Understand the business needs and/or workflows owned by your team (e.g., financial risk, controls, escalation paths, data sources, metrics, testing mechanisms, key dependencies, any automation/tools, risk-assessment methodologies). This may include understanding internal and external policies and/or contracts used by partner teams.
• Executes against established SOPs and identifies and recommends opportunities for process improvement. Observes and escalates gaps in processes or controls and recommend/draft SOP revisions
• Performs deep dive analysis and drafts COE based on identified deviations and recommends appropriate solutions.
• Owns weekly/monthly metrics and process reviews with internal and external stakeholders
• Maintains subject matter expertise specific to job functions and general industry awareness
• Earns trust of peers by understanding operational processes related to risk management programs and product offerings
• Mentors peers and new hires and may participate in the development and delivery of risk management training
• Provide recommendation to manager improvements to technical risk management solutions to drive program efficiencies
Basic Qualifications
- 2+ years of program or project management experience- 1+ years of supply chain experience
- 2+ Years experience with project/program management working with cross-functional teams
- 2+ years experience using data and metrics to drive improvements
- Experience in Supply chain Management
- Experience preparing reports identifying findings and providing recommended remediation strategies and solutions
Preferred Qualifications
- Knowledge of Lean principles and DMAIC methodology- Experience in MS Access and SQL
- Experience in requirement gathering and ability to write clear and detailed requirement document
- Bachelor’s Degree
- Knowledge of Excel (Pivot Tables, VLookUps) at an advanced level and SQL
- Demonstrated analytical and quantitative skills to use data and metrics to back up assumptions and develop business cases
- Experience building processes, project management, and schedules
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