Our operations network, known for our speed, accuracy, and exceptional service, delivers millions of packages and smiles to Amazon customers every day. To keep our operations network secure and assure operational continuity, we are looking for an experienced professional who wants to join our Risk Management and Resilience team as Senior Risk Manager. In this key role, you will create resilience frameworks, standards, and programs to enable risk change identification, assessment, and management across International Region (Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia, Pacific and Latin America).
Key job responsibilities
• Create detailed resilience frameworks, standards, and programs to enable risk change identification, assessment, and management
• Create mechanisms, standards, and processes by translating Amazon security policies into real-world applications to adapt to and absorb impacts of negative risk
• Build a resilient organization and prepare the business to be able to respond to a range of events that may pose risk to associates, operations, assets, and brand
• Support the business with analytical deep dives to identify root causes of loss, risks, security breaches, and major incidents determining additional mitigations and corrective actions
• Train, advise, and partner with other functions to identify, manage, and mitigate risks through robust standards and processes
A day in the life
As a Senior Risk Manager on the Risk Management & Resilience team, you will join a team of professionals supporting the Security and Loss Prevention team with building a resilient organization and prepare the business to be able to respond to a range of events that may pose risk to associates, operations, assets, and brand. To achieve this goal, you will create detailed resilience frameworks, standards, and programs to enable risk change identification, assessment, and management. You also create mechanisms, standards, and processes by translating Amazon security policies into real-world applications to adapt to and absorb impacts of negative risk. You will own and drive long-term programs and initiatives that can be called upon to support dynamic risk preparedness and response during changing operating risk environments. You also monitor existing and evolving threats, assess risk level changes to drive increased preparedness, and enable business adaptation or absorption of changing risk conditions, including response and recovery activity to manifested incident and crisis events. You will work with internal stakeholders to establish, provide, and agree on clear goals, objectives, and performance delivery outcomes as well as timelines. You will also train, advise, and partner with other functions to identify, manage, and mitigate risks through robust standards and processes. Finally, you support the business with analytical deep dives to identify root causes of loss, risks, security breaches, and major incidents determining additional mitigations and corrective actions.
About the team
Working in partnership with our stakeholders, Security and Loss Prevention secures the Amazon supply chain end-to-end and promotes security during business conversations. Sitting within Security and Loss Prevention, the Resilience team does this by providing the International end-to-end supply chain with the ability to adapt to changing conditions and prepare for, withstand, and rapidly recover from disruption. We do this through the use of resilience frameworks that enable the identification of changing conditions as well as pre-defined strategies to control and manage the associated risks. We provide standards, procedures, guidance, training, and testing mechanisms to build and empower capabilities across the operational network in International. Adopting a centrally aligned strategy, we align ownership and responsibility across the Security and Loss Prevention regional and cluster model to ensure consistent servicing and prioritization against differing business operating risk profiles.- 6+ years of compliance, audit or risk management experience
- Knowledge of Microsoft Office products and applications at an advanced level
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills- Project Management Professional (PMP) or equivalent certification
- Experience leveraging technology and implementing lean principles / Six Sigma methodologies to drive process improvements or equivalent
- Master's degree or equivalent
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