Senior Process & Policy Lead, AWS GDSP Deal Approvals

Amazon • Austin, TX

7h

About The Position

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a dynamic and rapidly growing business within
Amazon and the leader in providing secure, reliable, scalable, and innovative
services that help over a million businesses, governments, education, and not
for profits across the globe scale and grow!
AWS Global Deal Strategy & Programs (GDSP) organization is instrumental in
driving deal strategy, structuring, negotiations, and execution of private
deals. These private deals consist of large, strategic, or highly competitive
commercial deals. AWS GDSP Approvals team is responsible for defining and
maintaining approvals policies, tools and processes worldwide. We are looking
for a talented Senior Manager for approval policies
Amazon Web Services (AWS) GDSP Approvals Team is looking for a talented Sr
Manager, Approvals Policies to support AWS’ dynamic and rapidly growing
business. Amazon Web Services is at the forefront of the "cloud" computing and
service industry providing IT infrastructure services such as on-demand compute
capacity, storage, delivery, database services, browsers and more.

You will be responsible for centralizing approvals-related policies and
processes to ensure consistent application of Amazon Policies and Private
Pricing Program mental models while improving operational efficiencies to
maximize deal velocity and maintain highest standards.

You will distill diverse inputs from large internal customer segments and
stakeholders to set a vision, design strategy, and achieve consensus on goals
and priorities; work with internal or external cross-functional teams to build
scalable policy and process improvements that increase operational efficiencies;
participate in mentoring and peer development, whether directly or via
development of materials; and be willing to roll up their sleeves and build with
us.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in business economics, engineering, analytics, mathematics, statistics, information technology or equivalent
• 5+ years of professional or military experience
• 10+ years of business operations experience (may include finance, legal or other comparable experience) leading end-to-end transformational initiatives.
• 5+ years of experience defining and implementing policies and guidelines in global roles.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in verbal and written communication for executive level leaders
• Evidence of demonstrated success in managing multiple large-scale projects autonomously, collaborating with technical and non-technical teams and directly engaging with senior leadership.
• Demonstrated ability to successfully influence and drive stakeholder decisions without direct authority.
• Legal or finance background demonstrating a high level of analytical aptitude.
• Ability to lead by demonstrating sound judgment in ambiguous situations

Responsibilities

• Single threaded owner of all S&TP approvals policy related initiatives.
• Leverage your organizational experience, advanced business judgement, and understanding of the impact on stakeholders to drive goals to completion.
• Define and centralize the S&TP approval policies in alignment with organizational strategy
• Collaborate with cross functional stakeholders to identify, investigate, and resolve existing deal approval policies blockers, gaps, and pain points that impact deal velocity.
• Identify opportunities and define the roadmap to achieve organization-wide objectives while, streamlining or eliminating excess processes.
• Influence teams to decouple dependencies and eliminate problems that stifle innovation.

Benefits

• health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
• 401(k) matching
• paid time off
• parental leave

What This Job Offers

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