Program Manager Sustainability, Amazon Fresh Private Brands

Amazon; London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 80,000

Job description

DESCRIPTION

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 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, alongside a passion for grocery.

This role will need to work alongside a number of sustainability teams to ensure that the Amazon Fresh Private Brands team is able to meet all compliance and regulation requirements across the EU while meeting our global goals. This person will need to be comfortable with ambiguity and earn trust within the team, partner teams, and with external stakeholders. They will need to 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)). Establish mechanisms for tracking and managing timelines against deliverables and reporting progress to key stakeholders. Develop and report compliance to metrics to manage any data gaps or discrepancies, sharing metrics with stakeholders in a clear and timely manner. Develop and execute structured processes to ensure compliance in our supply base to identified standards, such as our responsible sourcing policies, verifying evidence against agreed criteria.

The right candidate will have experience within sustainability, be customer-obsessed, dive deep into understanding the data, be capable of managing ambiguity, and earn trust with multiple teams working across business units and functions to deliver results.

Key job responsibilities

1. Program manage the data required for compliance and regulation topics for AFPBI Sustainability e.g., CSRD, EUDR, and UKFRC.
2. Establish mechanisms for tracking and managing timelines against deliverables and reporting progress to key stakeholders.
3. Develop and report compliance to AFPBI's metrics to manage % compliance, % data gaps, managing the path to green, and sharing metrics with stakeholders in a clear and timely manner to meet existing and emerging sustainability regulations alongside inputting into Amazon's public Annual Sustainability Report.
4. Develop and execute structured processes to ensure compliance in our supply base for all products meeting identified standards, through verified evidence.
5. Work across multiple internal and external systems and dashboards to pull and communicate (e.g., ANDI - Amazon's PLM system, and Quicksight dashboards).
6. Invent and simplify through offshoring and automation. Recommend process improvements or use of Artificial Intelligence (AI).
7. Communicate with cross-functional teams to ensure appropriate alignment, approval, and adoption of new tools and processes.
8. 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.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience in Sustainability and Compliance.
- Navigation of complex topics requiring internal and external engagement.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience in Sustainability and Compliance.
- Managing complex topics and stakeholders (internal and external).

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