Friday , February 14 2025

Amazon Careers 2025 in Cape Town, Western Cape, SA – Sr. Program Manager

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Job Summary

DESCRIPTION

EC2 Accelerated Nitro is looking for a passionate, data-driven and organized Senior Program Manager to help us streamline and automate programs and processes, set best practices, create and maintain operational delivery excellence, and can be a trusted advisor to the local EC2 executives. The key responsibility of the role is driving business operations and programs, with particular focus in talent acquisition strategy and branding. Other activities include goals, headcount, operational planning, rhythm of the business, communications, and departmental budget management.

In this role, you will build and drive the recruitment strategy of our organizations in partnership with the executives and recruitment teams, actively participating in identifying and acquiring new talent, by ensuring job descriptions are accurate, and contributing to sourcing activities to boost the hiring pipelines, in order to support the business needs.As part of the strategy, you will establish recruiting event management, define location expansion analysis, drive university relationships, and coordinate promotional campaigns working with AWS PR and AWS Evangelism, including social media activities.

From Day 1, the Sr. Program Manager is given ownership and the autonomy to think strategically and make data driven decisions, along with the ability to drive significant impact to the customer experience and the business.

Key job responsibilities

  • Define and drive talent acquisition strategy for EC2 IP in Europe, partnering with the Recruiting team and the local EC2 executives.
  • Drive sourcing and recruitment activities in partnership with the Recruiting team.
  • Build and and manage events and conferences to expand the visibility of our teams and brand.
  • Build and manage our program of cooperation with universities.
  • Drive our promotional campaigns and social media activities, working together with AWS PR and AWS Evangelism.
  • Define our location strategy, working with the internal intelligence teams.
  • Demonstrate the ability to communicate effectively at multiple levels of management, building trust across the organization, and demonstrating discretion with sensitive information.
  • Be comfortable working in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment while driving teams to complete goals.
  • Demonstrate the ability to break abstract goals into attainable, measurable work items.

A day in the life

As our business grows, we continue expanding our talent acquisition. To scale up our organization, we are taking a more strategic towards our business process, with special focus towards talent acquisition. This role reports to a local engineering executive, and supports other engineering executives of EC2 in Europe, partnering together with local engineering leaders and with different organizations such as Recruiting, Human Resources, Public Relations or Evangelism.

About The Team

EC2 Instance Platforms has two organizations in Europe, EC2 Accelerated Nitro and EC2 Kernel and Operating Systems. We deliver innovative virtualization technologies that enable customers to run virtualized EC2 instances in the different platforms.

Basic Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Human Resources, Business Management, Operations, or similar field.
  • 6+ years of relevant work experience in program/project management and/or business operations.
  • Demonstrated experience owning program strategy, end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership.
  • Program Management or Project Management related qualifications, awareness of tools for managing Programs and Projects effectively.
  • Demonstrated experience working effectively cross-functionally with a variety of organizations, management levels, cultures, and personalities.
  • Good interpersonal and English communication (both written and verbal) skills.
  • Ability to communicate in writing clearly, succinctly, and in a data-driven fashion.
  • Ability to multitask and manage multiple projects – work prioritization, planning and task delegation.
  • Ability to balance the strategic with the operational, even as operational load increases during peak seasons.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Master’s Degree in Human Resources, Business Management or Operations.
  • Project Management/Agile methodologies; Lean Six Sigma Certification.
  • Prior experience in SQL, Tableau and other BI and analytics technologies.
  • Excellent problem-solving skills. Comfortable with going deep and wide.

Amazon is an equal opportunities employer, and we value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. We welcome applications from all members of society irrespective of age, sex, disability, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief. Amazon is strongly committed to diversity within its community and especially welcomes applications from South African citizens who are members of designated groups who may contribute to Employment Equity within the workplace and the further diversification of ideas. In this regard, the relevant laws and principles associated with Employment Equity will be considered when appointing potential candidates. We are required by law to verify your ability to work lawfully in South Africa. Amazon requires that you submit a copy of either your identity document or your passport and any applicable work permit if you are a foreign national, along with an updated curriculum vitae.

Company – Amazon Dev Centre South Africa

Job ID: A2062428

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