Job Description

DESCRIPTION

Transportation Risk & Compliance (TRC) is a team that protects all of Amazons transportation businesses by designing and implementing scalable risk management solutions that enable business growth. These systems, invisible to the customer, aim to work seamlessly across the transportation network to ensure safe and compliant business continuity.
We are looking for an experienced Principal Risk Manager. As Amazon is continuously developing new transportation solutions, this global leader will work with business leaders to assess program risk and proactively identify compliance and regulatory risk. The successful candidate will propose innovative approaches and risk mitigation strategies throughout the business life-cycle. In this highly visible role, you will work closely with the legal, business, product, and engineering teams on effective risk mitigation countermeasures to ensure continued safety and compliance for Amazon and our transportation partners.
This senior leader will leverage their knowledge of regulations, their insight into industry standards, and their experience in risk assessment and mitigation to create and influence Amazons transportation policies and strategies throughout the business life-cycle.
Key Responsibilities Include:
Partner with Amazon legal, business, and engineering stakeholders to identify regulatory, compliance, or other risks as the subject matter expert (SME).
Design and implement the risk assessment framework for Amazon transportation programs and influence the product landscape for audit and controls.
Perform risk assessments of Amazon transportation programs.
Guide senior leadership, resolve risk management concerns, implement mitigation strategies, and influence the product roadmap.
Anticipate challenges/obstacles the transportation business would encounter while expanding geographies. Lead policy development as the regulatory landscape evolves with high judgement.
Communicate in a concise, accurate, and professional manner to business partners and executives.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

Bachelor's degree in business, policy, risk management or related field.
10+ years of risk management, regulatory engagement, or similar discipline experience including engaging with external stakeholders.
Self-starter who can develop strategic direction, plan effective tactics and deliver specific results.
Exceptional ability to influence, negotiate with, and persuade others. Must be flexible and demonstrate strong judgment, decision-making skills, and political acumen. Must intelligently build a course of action, analyze trade-offs, and make recommendations even in ambiguous situations.
Ability to understand complex business processes and technologies.
Analytical decision making with a demonstrated ability to problem solve, make decisions in complex situations, and drive issues to completion.
Highly effective oral, written, and interpersonal communication skills; demonstrated ability to interact at all corporate and political levels. Ability to create factual, relevant and easily understandable talking points and other messaging, and to persuasively deliver them to relevant audiences.
Ability to prioritize workloads, remain flexible, and maintain a strong attention to detail in a fast-paced environment while supporting multiple, simultaneous programs.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Graduate Degree preferred.
5+ years of demonstrated experience working on issues impacting the technology industry, such as competition, privacy, consumer protection, tax, copyright, trade, labor, transportation and infrastructure, product compliance, sustainability.
5+ years of experience with audit or risk program design, control environment process documentation, and control mapping.
5+ years of experience managing and engaging with regulatory agencies.

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