Career Acceleration: Operations Leadership

2 days ago


Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Amazon Full time

Job Summary:

Amazon seeks talented MBA and Master's graduates to join its three-year Operations Leadership Development Program, the Pathways Operations program.

About Amazon

At Amazon, we pride ourselves on hiring and developing top talent. We offer MBA and master's program graduate students the opportunity to launch their careers with limitless possibilities. As a leader in a global Fortune 100 company, you'll have the chance to manage people, process, and technology in one of the most innovative operations environments on Earth. If you're looking to become a leader and deliver a continuously improving customer experience to millions globally, then this program may be right for you.

Program Overview

The Pathways Operations program is designed to rapidly develop talented MBA and Master's-level graduates with the skills needed to become Amazon's future Senior Management. Through a series of intense, progressively challenging opportunities in the core of our world-class operations network, you will stretch your leadership capacity to its full potential. Our members are highly visible to senior leadership and have flexibility with changing roles, sites, and geographies as we strive to create global leaders.

What to Expect

  1. You will start as an Area Manager, learning Amazon operations on the front-line leading people and systems. You will kick off your career by managing and directing 50 to 100 associates in one of our world-class fulfillment/sortation/delivery centers.
  2. You will progress into the Operations Manager role and gain experience leading other managers and teams of 300-500 members. You will drive improvements in Operational processes and the end-to-end supply chain by working cross-functionally with technology and engineering teams across Amazon.
  3. You will graduate from the Pathways Operations Leadership Development Program and emerge as a leader known for operational excellence. In this senior manager position, you will lead through others to execute on regional or network initiatives. You will apply your expert subject matter expertise to lead a new business, project, team, or an entire site in a specific region.

Responsibilities

  • Coach, manage, and develop large teams.
  • Partner with senior leadership to think broadly about solutions to the most complex business and operational challenges.
  • Engage and lead continuous improvement projects throughout the course of the program.

Locations & Placement

Must be willing to relocate at time of hire; position location is most heavily weighted on business need, but will also consider individual location preference.

Estimated Salary: $80,000 - $120,000 per year

Requirements

  • Currently enrolled in MBA or equivalent master's level program at the time of application with a conferral date between December 2024 – June 2025.
  • 3+ years of full-time industry work experience, which occurred between the conferral date from your undergraduate program and prior to starting your MBA or master's program, OR 3+ years of military work experience prior to starting your MBA or master's program.

Preferred Qualifications

  • 5+ years of full-time industry work experience.
  • Skilled in directing and developing cross-functional teams to execute on strategic initiatives.
  • Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills (both written and verbal).
  • Proven track record of taking ownership and driving results.
  • The ability to dive deep into data and provide thought-provoking, workable business solutions.
  • Demonstrated ability to bring big ideas and influence across all levels of an organization.
  • Bias for action and passion for rolling up sleeves and doing what it takes to 'get it done'.


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