Energy Utility Ops Business Manager, EPO

Amazon • Seattle, WA

13d

About The Position

The Amazon Energy Procurement Operations (EPO) team manages supply contracts post execution, provides controllership and governance of energy spend, tracks environmental attributes and ensures our energy supply portfolio is compliant with external regulations, contract obligations as well as internal policies. You will be a part of the team responsible for managing the world’s largest portfolio of corporate renewable energy contracts. We are looking for an individual to join our OpXL team and enhance our programs, including onboarding new energy projects and contracts, overseeing the flow of critical operating data into downstream systems, analyzing and reporting Utility Energy contract performance, tracking key contractual metrics and obligations, and managing compliance obligation reporting. The right candidate can manage multiple projects simultaneously, has strong contract management skills, experience with business processes, and experience defining and reporting metrics in BI tools. AWS Infrastructure Services (AIS) AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. In other words, we’re the people who keep the cloud running. We support all AWS data centers and all of the servers, storage, networking, power, and cooling equipment that ensure our customers have continual access to the innovation they rely on. We work on the most challenging problems, with thousands of variables impacting the supply chain — and we’re looking for talented people who want to help. You’ll join a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, operations managers, and other vital roles. You’ll collaborate with people across AWS to help us deliver the highest standards for safety and security while providing seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost for our customers. And you’ll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent
• 3+ years of project/program management experience
• Experience in Excel (including VBA, pivot tables, array functions, power pivots, etc.) and data visualization tools such as Tableau

Nice To Haves

• Experience coordinating cross-functional inputs, meeting deadlines, and effectively managing competing priorities
• Experience with supplier or vendor relationship management
• Experience in project management including resource planning, managing schedules, reporting project status and prioritizing tasks
• Experience working in utility/energy industry - compliance, regulatory, asset/contract management, market operations or similar.

Responsibilities

• Support overseeing energy agreements and invoice ingestion management globally.
• Support the on-boarding process for energy contracts and Data Center site locations across different geographies with a large number of counterparties and internal stakeholders. Track progress and drive for successful completion.
• Support data connectivity activities, including oversight of vendors and service providers, planning and scheduling activities, commercial issue resolution, and overall management of data connections.
• Report and analyze portfolio performance in collaboration with other teams, identifying impacts to our business units and our customers.
• Support the management of the contractual obligations with counterparties and drive internal processes and workflows to fulfill obligations on Amazon’s behalf.
• Plan and drive execution of initiatives to improve our energy operations. Continuously seek to invent and simplify in order to achieve further scale effect for Amazon’s management of its energy portfolio.
• Work collaboratively with other AWS and Amazon teams to support the management of the energy programs.
• Consolidate portfolio reporting KPIs to help define program goals and use metrics to draw business insights.
• Support invoicing, accounts payable/receivable workflows to ensure transaction readiness and continuity of operations.
• Support Energy compliance obligation tracking, reporting, filing, and fulfillment.
• Oversee outside spend contract management, including onboarding, budgeting, forecasting, and conflict resolution.

Benefits

• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level