Senior Program Manager, Central RME, AGL ELM Execution

Amazon • Nashville, TN

7d • $107,600 - $177,900 • Onsite

About The Position

We are seeking a Senior Program Manager to join our Central RME team, a key individual contributor role that impacts global markets with an immediate focus on NA R2L. The successful candidate will possess proven project management experience and consistently demonstrate the ability to influence leaders outside of their organization. This role requires engagement with nearly all operational teams, including Operations, Field RME, Global Reliability, and Global Engineering. As a senior individual contributor, you must balance short-term solutions with long-term strategies, bringing organization to a complex and thorough business plan through prioritization and deliberate execution of high-impact initiatives. Your long-term vision to enhance customer satisfaction while reducing costs will be integral to the Central team strategy. This position demands a customer-focused professional with a strong business presence, high energy, and the mental stamina to execute a 3+ year business plan. You will own the end-to-end delivery of launches at the highest level of quality, ensuring every launch meets or exceeds established standards with zero compromise. You are expected to continuously raise the bar on what "launch-ready" looks like, defining world-class benchmarks, holding cross-functional teams accountable to those standards, and relentlessly improving processes so that each successive launch is better than the last. You will drive a culture of continuous improvement and operational efficiency through innovative solutions and best practices, treating every gap as an opportunity to elevate the entire organization. If you are a dynamic and results-driven professional with a passion for flawless execution, project management, and customer satisfaction, we invite you to join our team and make a significant impact on our global operations.

Requirements

• 5+ years of directly managing and responsible for multiple large projects experience
• 5+ years of maintenance or engineering experience
• 3+ years of in material handling equipment (MHE) or automation environments experience, or experience in reliability/maintenance environments
• 3+ years of leading cross-functional teams across engineering, operations, and field execution through launch readiness and go-live phases experience
• Bachelor's degree in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering, or 2+ years of Amazon RME (Reliability Maintenance Engineering) experience
• Experience and strong technical background in relevant fields of automated or non-automated material handling equipment

Nice To Haves

• Experience building launch readiness frameworks, standard work, playbooks, and scalable deployment mechanisms across multiple concurrent sites
• Experience with performance metrics such as OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness), downtime, throughput, or quality
• Experience in Amazon RME (Reliability, Maintenance, and Engineering), fulfillment operations, or automation deployment environments

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end launch delivery: Drive all phases of launch execution from RME requirements through IOQ, TQ Pass, and post-launch validation, ensuring every launch meets world-class quality standards with zero compromise
• Regularly engage senior leaders: Provide clear, data-driven updates on the progress of key project milestones, proactively surfacing risks and proposing solutions before they become escalations
• Define and execute program strategies: Develop comprehensive program roadmaps that address evolving customer needs, balancing near-term delivery with long-term scalability
• Continuously raise the bar on launch quality: Establish and refine launch-readiness benchmarks, conduct rigorous post-launch reviews, and implement improvements so that each successive launch outperforms the last
• Identify and implement long-term corrective actions: Analyze delivery gaps and root causes, then drive systemic solutions that prevent recurrence and elevate the standard across the network
• Cultivate and expand key partnerships: Build and maintain strong cross-functional relationships with Operations, Field RME, Global Reliability, Global Engineering, and vendor partners essential for launch success
• Create and manage program roadmaps: Develop process documentation, standardized playbooks, and implementation plans that drive consistency and repeatability across all launches
• Influence without authority: Hold cross-functional teams accountable to quality standards and timelines through strong stakeholder management, clear communication, and demonstrated expertise

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
• sign-on payments
• restricted stock units (RSUs)

What This Job Offers

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