SR. WHS Program Manager

Operations is at the heart of Amazon’s customer experience and differentiation. Our ambition is to build Earth’s safest network, focusing on the safety and well-being of our associates. As an associate-centric company, this role is crucial in setting industry-leading safety standards and driving continuous improvement across business units.
The Program Work place Health & Safety leader is responsible for driving standardization and continuous improvement efforts across all business units in India . This role will work backward from the customer to define and implement innovative solutions that raise the bar on safety and well-being.

Key job responsibilities
• Lead programs designed to standardize safety processes across business units.
• Strengthen Work place Health & Safety communication and enhance Work place Health & Safety processes and technologies to scale and reduce risk.
• Influence business-critical decisions that enable scalability and deliver industry-leading performance.
• Benchmark processes with World Wide-Work place health & Safety to continuously raise customer experience standards.
• Drive program improvements and initiatives in close collaboration with Work place Health & Safety business leaders and field and program teams.
• Pilot new safety methods and processes across India operations.
• Solve large-scale, business-critical problems through strategic projects and programs.
• Conduct problem-solving and ideation workshops to define solutions that elevate safety standards.
• Ensure execution of projects to meet safety targets and timelines.
• Reinforce standard work and Lean processes to drive operational excellence.
• Sponsor continuous improvement/Kaizen projects and lead change management/audit initiatives.

Basic qualifications

- 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
- Experience driving process excellence and productivity improvement initiatives, including Kaizen methodologies
- Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to translate business problems into scalable solutions
- Strong communication and influencing skills
- Self-starter with experience managing large-scale projects in ambiguous environments
- 7+ years of program management, field operations, project management or product management experience.

Preferred qualifications

- 2+ years of driving process improvements experience
- Master's degree in Engineering or Business Administration or a related field
- Master's degree in Health and Safety or a related field
- NEBOSH (National General Certificate), or NVQ Level 3
- Lean, Six Sigma, or continuous improvement certifications
- Experience in multi-country program execution
- Experience in handing large teams and stakeholders
- Certificate, ISO 45001 & ISO 14001 Lead Auditor

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