Senior Risk Manager

DESCRIPTION

*This role can be located in any Amazon corporate office across Europe including Luxembourg, London, Paris, Milan, Madrid, Berlin.*

Your risk 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
- Track and report metrics on 3PP performance to internal stakeholders, as well as continually monitor, analyze, identify gaps and influence remediation to maximize increased compliance impact; and manage and support escalations communications, as needed. Analyze quantitative and qualitative data, report appropriate level of information based on the audience, prioritize and make tradeoffs, and balance the business needs while listening to the voice of the customer is critical.
- Validate the effectiveness of workflows and mechanisms for handling risk assessments, escalations, driving process improvement efforts with the objective to eliminate future escalations.
- Track and communicate results at the senior leadership level.
- Influence payroll vendor selection

A day in the life
About the team: 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. The Data and Automation Risk Manager is responsible for defining, managing and implementing the insights and automation strategy for EU frequent risk-based inspections and expand 3PP compliance beyond just EU, to provide our stakeholders with the relevant trends and information om compliance to support the right business strategy. This Risk Manager will create metrics and proactively seek out new and improved data/ mechanisms for visibility of risk, and control and effectiveness. The Risk Manager is in charge of defining programs which are in line with the risk strategy, regulations, and organizational objectives.

Additionally, this role will work closely with Amazon Logistics and 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

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience in compliance, audit or risk management
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 6+ years project management experience.
- 4+ years of 3P Provider Vendor Management
- Operations, payroll and/or audit management
- Experience in the transportation industry
- Continuous improvement background (i.e. 6-sigma, ISO, Total Quality, etc.).

Job details
- LUX, Luxembourg
- Compliance Operations
- Project/Program/Product Management-Non-Tech