Job summary At Amazon, we're working to be the most customer -centric company on earth. To get there, we need exceptionally talented, bright, innovative and driven leaders. If you would like to help us build the place to find and buy anything on-line...

Job summary
At Amazon, we're working to be the most customer -centric company on earth. To get there, we need exceptionally talented, bright, innovative and driven leaders. If you would like to help us build the place to find and buy anything on-line, this is your chance to make history and be involved in growing our business by leading and supporting new building expansion and change.

Key to this mission is strategic, large-scale project management initiatives that will allow us to scale our organization for the future in a dramatic way.

As an individual contributor, the aim of the Sr HR Launch Program Manager role is to partner across functions and businesses to enable new site launches and transformations from an HR point of view. This role requires both strategic and hands-on leadership. Sr HR Launch Program Manager develops and drives critical people initiatives, provides support to internal stakeholders and leads large scale projects within the particular line of business across the EU.


This role requires extensive travel to launch locations. Role can be based in several European countries.

Responsibilities include:

Building Launches and Transformations

Inspects and monitors building progress and adherence to standards for people impacting spaces
Challenges and escalates on any variance to agreed standards for people impacting spaces
Anticipates and escalates/resolves people impacting risks for new launch sites and influences mitigation strategies
Anticipates and escalates/resolves critical role hiring risks and ensures internal guidelines are adhered to
Accountable for the timely and accurate set-up of people systems (such as Time and Attendance) and processes
Responsible for the coordination/set-up of PXT capabilities programs for new site PXT teams
Responsible for the creation and implementation of building launch/transformations communications plan
Responsible for the coordination/set-up of Day1 launch celebration
Serve as escalation point for any PXT related new site issues


Stakeholder Management and Governance

Responsible for the set-up of People Governance structure for a site launch
Facilitates project communication to stakeholders and leads project status meetings
Partners with key internal stakeholders to ensure payroll/time-keeping and HRIS tools and processes are properly implemented on time for site launch
Builds cross-functional partnerships – works closely with Regional Operations leaders, new site leadership teams and other departments such as Recruiting, Workforce Staffing, PR, Legal, Payroll to achieve objectives


Project Management

Creates and implements consistent, repeatable expansion project plans for site launches
Partner with business line expansion team colleagues to identify best practices to be leveraged across the network and define key performance indicators for successful site launch
Develop and drive critical people initiatives, large projects and providing great internal stakeholder and candidate support
Leads cross-departmental projects to execute EU HR Launch strategy and tenets to optimize, standardize and/or improve launch processes mainly in terms of particular line of business within a country, region or across EU. The Sr HR Launch Program Manager is responsible for the planning and effective execution of the project cycle – preparing papers, getting required approvals, overseeing all aspects of projects, setting deadlines and monitoring progress of project, as well as delivering assumed results/KPI’s


BASIC QUALIFICATIONS


Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent degree
Proven cross-functional and international project management experience, handling complex change initiatives
Good understanding of relevant employment legislation that a launch may impact
Strong verbal and written fluency in English; an additional modern European language is desirable
Ability to travel 50+% of working time is required; including potential temporary relocation during site launch time frame


PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

In addition, generalist HR exposure in a fast paced, operational environment is desired


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