Description

Amazon Engineering Services is looking for a detail-oriented, analytical, innovative, hands-on, and customer-obsessed Cost Manager that can provide cost management support directly contributing to growing Amazon’s customer fulfillment network. As a Cost Manager, you will be responsible for budget benchmarking controls over Customer Fulfillment Business Units, including developing and maintaining a building cost database, providing centralised cost support to procurement and project team negotiations and forecasting future cost indexations for funding needs. You will have ownership and responsibility over benchmarking of multi-billion dollar Amazon Fulfillment Operations expansions within North America.

As a Cost Manager (CM) you will manage and support one or multiple of Amazon’s business units: Global Customer Fulfillment, Global Air Program, Global Specialty Fulfillment, Amazon Logistics, Pharmacy, Merch by Amazon, Sort Center Network, and Initiatives.

Key attributes of a successful CM for this role include excellent written and verbal communication, ability to learn and be curious, and strong financial acumen. Candidate must be highly motivated and effective within distributed teams.

Key job responsibilities

Ownership and responsibility over budget benchmarking controls of multi-billion dollar Amazon fulfillment Operations expansions within North America.
Provide tactical and strategic cost support for negotiations by Procurement and Project Teams.
Develop monthly/quarterly status updates to VP level leadership.
Partner and contribute across all functions within Customer Fulfillment and will actively manage multiple stakeholders including Finance, Startup, Real Estate, Procurement and Construction.
Ensure the accuracy of benchmarking data remains within established and globally approved parameters.
Maintain accurate records of cost indexation and own the forecast of future cost impacts in locations across North America
Manage internal teams and build processes and tools to enable scalable and flexible operations, including a new cost benchmarking database.
Retrieve and analyze data using Excel, SQL or other data management systems.

A day in the life

Amazon offers a full range of benefits that support you and eligible family members, including domestic partners and their children. Benefits can vary by location, the number of regularly scheduled hours you work, length of employment, and job status such as seasonal or temporary employment.

The benefits that generally apply to regular, full-time employees include:

Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage
Maternity and Parental Leave Options
Paid Time Off (PTO)
401(k) Plan

If you are not sure that every qualification on the list above describes you exactly, we’d still love to hear from you! At Amazon, we value people with unique backgrounds, experiences, and skillsets. If you’re passionate about this role and want to make an impact on a global scale, please apply!

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
Bachelor’s degree

Preferred Qualifications

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