Senior Program Manager (Payroll and Time & Attendance)

• Bachelors degree
• Knowledge of payroll, labor and employment the European regulatory provisions
• Experience owning program strategy, end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership
• Experience using data and metrics to determine and drive improvements
• This role can be located in any Amazon corporate office across Europe: Berlin, Munich, Madrid, Paris, London, Milan, Luxembourg, Gdansk or Iasi*

The Transportation, Risk and Compliance team is looking for a Senior Program Manager with a strong background managing Third Party (3P) Payroll and Time and Attendance Providers. The ideal candidate is a motivated self-starter with strong background in 3P Payroll and Time & Attendance Provider Vendor Management (ADP or Paycom experience is a plus). This position will require high level strategic thinking to deep-dive analytical problem solving. You must be a strong project manager who can drive selection, standardization, and systematic controls through 3P providers globally. You are comfortable dealing with ambiguity and enjoy working on different problems every day. You must be an excellent writer who can succinctly communicate complicated payroll issues in business terms. You are a leader who can influence people, prioritize, communicate clearly and compellingly and understand how to deliver outstanding results within a strong and talented team, as well as being able to drive change across other organizations.

Your program management practices set a great example to others. You routinely and efficiently deliver the right things. You define clear goals and objectives. You drive crisp decisions in your program area about what projects move forward and in what priority order. You proactively identify risks and bring them to the attention of your team and stakeholders with plans for mitigation before they become roadblocks.

Key job responsibilities

• Self-starter, possess flexibility to work in a fast-changing environment and ambiguous situations
• Analytical decision making with a demonstrated ability to drive issues to completion
• Enthusiasm to work hard and make history
• Proven history of having worked effectively across cross-functional teams and business functions
• Attention to detail and a demonstrated ability to take ownership of cross-organizational problems and drive them to resolution
• Excellent written and verbal communications

A day in the life
Amazon’s Transportation Risk & Compliance team identifies and mitigates risk in a rapidly growing and complex, global environment. To support the business, our primary mission is to perform independent and objective, risk-based assessments of Amazon business partners’ activities and related controls with the goal of improving operations, compliance, risk management and overall success of the program.

This role will work closely with Transportation businesses, Compliance, Legal, Finance, and HR teams to implement world-class customer-centric compliance & risk management tools and processes.

If you are motivated to dive into the detail and take ownership, we have the career you’re looking for!

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

Luxembourg, LUX

• • Masters degree, or MBA in business, operations, human resources, adult education, organizational development, instructional design or related field

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