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SalaryThe Amazon Transportation Services (ATS) team is looking for a Business Continuity Program Manager (BCM) to support contingency planning for the end to end logistics network and Peak planning. Tasked with executing the ATS BCM Program including; risk assessments, Business Continuity planning, disaster recovery, exercising, crisis management, supporting the End to End disruption management playbook and peak planning. Supporting operational recovery of the end to end network during events such as adverse weather, wildfires, civil unrest, global health crises or similar external factors. The professional should be able to use their logistics knowledge to build and maintain the playbooks required to prepare for and respond to any crisis management or severe event.
Key job responsibilities
The Professional must have a high degree of experience managing and maintaining complex logistics networks across multiple modalities. This role will see them owning the End to End (E2E) playbook for Amazon in Europe. Responsible for working with stake holders across every team and modality to analyze and operationalise severe event and crisis responses and apply network protections. They must have the ability to communicate information that may be incomplete, indirect, highly complex, seemingly unrelated and/or technically advanced.
Be comfortable with acting as the peak captain for the BCM team and supporting High Volume Events. Including preparing risk assessments, documents for leadership and taking park in lessons learned.
They must be comfortable with evolving technology, able to deal with and work through ambiguity, exhibit flexibility needed to shift workload in accordance with changing priorities, be comfortable leading in a sometimes stressful and fast-paced, priority-driven environment, and be prepared to brief departmental leadership. They must be a highly motivated self-starter who can operate within a global team.
A day in the life
Reporting to the BC Manager you will be responsible for program managing the E2E playbook, working with the BCM team and cross functional leads to manage, maintain and keep the playbook in good order. Act as the network protections subject matter expert and lead efforts to develop, exercise and train others in protection measures such as when to apply protections. Along side the E2E playbook you will be involved in the day to day activities of the BCM team and be expected to learn how to mange incidents and lead crisis management calls.
About the team
The Business Continuity Team is small but effective yet you will have the optometry to work across all levels and steer a critical component to Amazons success. The team is fast paced, flexible and seen as subject matter experts in all areas of keeping our customer promises. The team values accountability, a cool head and long term thinking.
As with any crisis management function the team operates in a 24/7 environment and some on call or weekend work will be required from time to time.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Coalville, LEC, GBR
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's degree- Knowledge of Excel (Pivot Tables, VLookUps) at an advanced level and SQL
- Experience working cross functionally with tech and non-tech teams
- Experience defining program requirements and using data and metrics to determine improvements
- Experience in program or project management
- Experience implementing repeatable processes and driving automation or standardization
- Experience defining and executing program requirements
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience in driving end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership- Experience leading process improvements
- Experience in stakeholder management, dealing with multiple stakeholders at varied levels of the organization
- Experience building processes, project management, and schedules
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