Senior Program Manager, Real Estate - Amazon

Description Join us as we grow Amazon's Grocery and Retail businesses! We are passionate about creating a shopping experience that customers will love. If you're interested in a fast-paced, ambiguous, and highly-collaborative environment that's more start-up than big company, we want to talk to you. The Sr. Program Manager will support Amazon's physical retail locations through strategic planning, project management, and real estate life cycle management. They will work with business leaders to execute on short- and long-term strategies and collaborate with internal stakeholders to build processes and tools allowing us to scale. This position is a central role in Amazon's strategic store growth planning and execution. Key job responsibilities - Develop national store growth strategies including geo entry plans and store openings per year across a 3 and 10 year horizon - Align geo entry plans with senior leadership, Finance and Operations teams. - Coordinate store growth plans with Logistics to ensure supply chain solutions are in place to support stores - Drive new store expansion process improvements; enable streamlining to achieve operational excellence, benchmarking, and development and tracking of key performance metrics - Own key real estate tools and documents including updates to LOI and lease standards, proforma, sales forecasting, and pipeline management systems - Own real estate life cycle end to end and clearly communicate procedural updates to wider real estate team - Develop and implement pipeline management tracking and mechanisms to scale and easily identify issues - Identify areas of risk to project timelines, and escalate to program leadership in a timely manner - Work with cross-functional partners to establish best practices and procedures; proactively identify blockers to remove. - Support processes to gather legal, policy and other requirements, assess them for completeness, and translate them for teams, stakeholders, and sponsors who will address and implement those requirements - Implement and document controls and processes to manage the transfer and sharing of data Basic Qualifications - 5+ years of program or project management experience - Experience using data and metrics to determine and drive improvements - Experience owning program strategy, end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership Preferred Qualifications - 2+ years of driving process improvements experience - Master's degree, or MBA in business, operations, human resources, adult education, organizational development, instructional design or related field Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us. Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company's reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $104,100/year in our lowest geographic market up to $185,000/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.