Program Manager II, AWS Health & Safety

At Amazon, the Leadership Principle "Strive to be Earth's Best Employer" challenges us to create a safer, more productive, and higher performing environment, reinforcing that nothing is more important than the safety and well-being of our teams. At AWS Health and Safety, we take that challenge seriously. Our Programs team sits at the intersection of strategy, execution, and people, driving the initiatives and standards that protect employees and partners across the globe. We believe that great safety outcomes are built on great programs, and we are looking for passionate, driven individuals who are ready to roll up their sleeves, collaborate across teams, and make a meaningful impact at scale. The AWS Health and Safety (H&S) team is an expanding, dynamic team that is critical to enabling AWS’s growth around the world, as well as ensuring compliance of AWS’s global operations, including physical data centers, as well as other AWS facilities, customer-facing enterprises and products. The H&S team has responsibility for architecting and implementing AWS’s global safety programs. This includes defining and implementing risk management and compliance systems and driving their continuous improvement; setting and refining global policies and procedures; overseeing the development of standards, tools, auditing and metrics, and employee training; ensuring effective engagement by H&S teams on global initiatives, including those that are part of Amazon’s ambitious sustainability goals; providing specialist expertise; and engaging with all AWS business units to provide scalable and H&S compliance strategies that support current and future business objectives while ensuring employee safety and compliance with H&S regulations. As a Program Manager, you will work across teams to collaborate, generate buy-in, develop and execute to a plan. You will drive the expansion and growth of our global safety programs, scaling globally. You will play a crucial role in devising strategies, fostering partnerships, and executing initiatives to enhance the program's reach and impact. This entails serving as the main point of contact for stakeholders in coordinating and managing strategic, cross-functional, and business-critical programs and projects. The ideal candidate excels at large-scale global Health & Safety programs planning & Implementation, encompassing gap analysis, ideation, planning, implementation, and retrospectives in a dynamic and diverse business environment. Effective communication and program management skills are essential, enabling you to manage multiple competing priorities and coordinate work across teams. The successful candidate will be proficient at working with data to identify trends, identify improvement opportunities, and proactively define plans to realize these opportunities. To be successful in this role, the candidate will effectively multitask and prioritize, utilize data to encourage decisions, and maintain a high level of independence. They will be comfortable working in a growing and ambiguous work environment as we constantly improve and innovate. The successful candidate must have solid written and verbal communications skills, the ability to influence stakeholders, and willingness to dive deep into details. Key job responsibilities • Accountable for the overall Health & Safety program strategy and planning, communicate program requirements, negotiate priorities, and define success metrics • Apply project management best practices to drive plan execution, mitigate risks, and improve effectiveness to deliver results in a timely manner • Continuously improve program components and mechanisms to drive results and provide program status communication, deliver clear and concise summaries to leadership teams and effectively answer questions • Serve as the primary point of contact for coordinating and managing strategic, cross-functional, and business-critical safety programs and projects • Build