The Amazon Fresh Private Brands International team manages and develops our byAmazon grocery consumables brand across Amazon Fresh Stores, Amazon Fresh Online, and Amazon.com across the UK and 4 EU locales. Our private brand product selection offers everyday essentials alongside seasonal products, providing customers with great quality and value on products we know they need.
We offer fresh products such as sandwiches, salads, and meals alongside ambient staples such as tinned fruit, vegetables, pasta, sauces, and drinks. Our goal is to be Earth's most customer-centric grocery brand, and we are just getting started. We are looking for people who want to join an ambitious, innovative, and customer-obsessed program.
We are looking for an exceptionally motivated and talented Senior Program Manager with relevant sustainability experience who is passionate about making a difference, obsessing about the customer, and has a passion for grocery.
This role will require collaboration with a number of sustainability teams to ensure that the Amazon Fresh Private Brands team meets all compliance and regulation requirements across the EU while achieving our global goals. The successful candidate will need to be comfortable with ambiguity and earn trust within the team, partner teams, and with external stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Source, clean, and manipulate data to comply with multiple existing and emerging sustainability regulations and their associated reporting requirements, guided by internal regulatory teams (e.g., Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), European Deforestation Regulation (EUDR)).
2. Establish mechanisms for tracking and managing timelines against deliverables and report progress to key stakeholders.
3. Develop and report compliance to AFPBI's metrics to manage compliance percentages, data gaps, and share metrics with stakeholders in a clear and timely manner.
4. Develop and execute structured processes to ensure compliance in our supply base to identified standards, verifying evidence against agreed criteria.
5. Program manage the data required for compliance and regulation topics for AFPBI Sustainability, e.g., CSRD, EUDR, and UKFRC.
6. Work across multiple internal and external systems and dashboards to pull and communicate data (e.g., ANDI - Amazon's PLM system, and Quicksight dashboards).
7. Invent and simplify through offshoring and automation. Recommend process improvements or use of Artificial Intelligence (AI).
8. Communicate with cross-functional teams to ensure appropriate alignment, approval, and adoption of new tools and processes.
9. Maintain adherence to the UK Green Claims Code and similar marketing guidelines across Europe, guarding against greenwashing and liaising with colleagues in Legal, PR, Marketing, etc., to approve any published information.
The right candidate will have:
1. Experience within sustainability, be customer-obsessed, and capable of managing ambiguity.
2. Experience in culinary development/food product development from product concepts to full commercialization.
3. Experience creating and documenting processes and procedures.
4. Extensive experience in the food industry with relevant product development experience.
5. Culinary & Food Technology experience/training, preferably in fresh food development.
6. Experience and knowledge of ingredient functionality.
7. Experience working in a cross-functional large organization environment.
8. Experience converting data and insights into strategic product pipelines.
9. Experience in end-to-end project management and adherence to critical paths and brand standards.
10. Experience commercializing diverse products.
11. Experience with Excel, Outlook, SharePoint, and formula management-focused systems.
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