Programme Manager & EA, Public Sector – AWS at Amazon Web Services SA Pvt Ltd

• Business Administration, Project Management Degree or any other relevant 4 year Degree
• Project Management Experience
• Business Administration and Executive Assistance experience
• Strong verbal and written communications skills (including developing presentations)

Job summary
Exciting opportunity for Programme Manager & EA to AWS PS South Africa Country Manager/Director.

We are looking for a fast paced, driven, motivated and well organised professional who is passionate about programme management and executive assistance.

Key job responsibilities

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The successful individual is expected to:

• be responsible for the planning, execution, and delivery of projects and programmes related to an AWS Public Sector South Africa business. Your job is to apply project-management best practices to make the team and process area you are in more efficient and effective for success.
• You resolve problems and challenges and facilitate delivery. You are able to assign individual responsibilities, develop appropriate milestones and launch schedules to ensure timely and successful delivery of a project. You take the time to learn the business needs and/or workflows involved in your projects (e.g., requirements, data sources, metrics, mechanisms, risks, key dependencies, any automation/tools, etc.). You understand a broad range of analytics techniques and know how (and when) to use them. You negotiate process improvements and needed features (and their priority), distinguishing between important and urgent. You establish milestones and drive sensible deadlines. You manage project communications and may serve as the first point of contact for team projects.
• You run effective meetings and are able to dive deeply into details as easily as convey high-level plans. Your verbal and written style are clear and concise. You are able to transform raw thoughts into clear documentation and requirements You ensure the right information about the state of a project is delivered to the right audience at the right time (e.g., status reports, metrics reports, etc.). You clearly articulate scope, timeline, owners, risks, and the steps to mitigate those risks at each stage. You identify roadblocks, drive the resolution of problems, and either manage their resolution or ensure a clear hand-off to the right owner. You make sure each project has measures of success.
• You are clear and concise in verbal and written communication (e.g. minutes of meetings, detailed/comprehensive reports, well articulated presentations and driving action plans).
• Manages administrative duties for the AWS PS Country Manager and Director and any special programmes or projects.

If these requirements fit you, come join our fantastic, business in Public Sector South Africa.

Aligns with Amazon’s leadership principles particularly

• Delivers Results
• Ownership
• Insists and Delivers on the Highest Standards
• Bias for Action

Amazon is an equal opportunities employer, and we value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. We welcome applications from all members of society irrespective of age, sex, disability, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief. Amazon is strongly committed to diversity within its community and especially welcomes applications from South African citizens who are members of designated groups who may contribute to Employment Equity within the workplace and the further diversification of ideas. In this regard, the relevant laws and principles associated with Employment Equity will be considered when appointing potential candidates. We are required by law to verify your ability to work lawfully in South Africa. Amazon requires that you submit a copy of either your identity document or your passport and any applicable work permit if you are a foreign national, along with an updated curriculum vitae.

Location :Johannesburg, Gauteng

Closing Date :25th January, 2022

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