Amazon Lead Strategic Initiatives Innovation Transformation Office 

Singapore 

578815914

As a full-time Lead, Strategic Initiatives you will lead and manage strategic projects to understand and uncover new business opportunities or solve our biggest challenges for Asia-Pacific and Japan (APJ). You will have the exciting opportunity to work cross-functionally and cross-geographically to identify problems and gaps, collect and analyze data, generate insights, come up with solutions, and implement them. You will execute on your proposed business strategies to solve difficult problems and remove blockers for our customers and our business. You will independently manage projects and run programs to deliver value for our business. To do so, you will need to collaborate effectively with internal stakeholders such as sales, operations, and marketing teams. Through leading initiatives across Asia-Pacific, you will gain a unique insight into the internal workings of the world’s fastest growing billion dollar IT organization.
The ideal candidate:
• Has strong project management and stakeholder engagement skills with the ability to lead and drive initiatives
• Has a track record for of driving operational excellence and landing and sustaining change
• Is creative and able to innovate and simplify process
• Is curious to learn and comfortable with ambiguity and a highly fluid environment
• Has good communications skills
• Is analytical and has strong financial/business acumen
• Has a “can-do” spirit with a strong sense of ownership to execute end-to-end projects
• Has outstanding interpersonal skills and is able to earn trust and influence others
• Is independent and comfortable with navigating ambiguity
• Is highly organized and can multi-task and prioritize competing stakeholder requests
• Uses a customer-centric approach to solve problems
• Thrives in a lean, fast-paced, entrepreneurial, multi-cultural environment
• Has a passion for AWS and driving cloud computing adoption across Asia-Pacific
A day in the life
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- 5+ years of developing, negotiating and executing business agreements experience
- Experience developing strategies that influence leadership decisions at the organizational level
- Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules
- Bachelor's degree