Risk Manager II, RISC Surveillance (Program)

About the team
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The Risk Manager plays a crucial role in driving the organization's risk management initiatives and ensuring compliance across global function.
This individual will champion the adoption of new tools and programs that fortify our compliance efforts, conduct comprehensive risk assessments on existing processes and new product assortments, identify potential vulnerabilities and recommend appropriate risk mitigation strategies.
These recommendations may encompass process improvements, training enhancements, and other measures to effectively manage and mitigate identified risks.
The Risk Manager will leverage their influence to shape behaviors, spearhead projects in collaboration with corporate counsel, legal, business partners, selling partner experience and support teams, operational excellence, product, BI and data science/engineering teams and foster cross-functional team commitment to upholding Amazon's policies and to deliver high-impact end to end compliance solutions.
Key job responsibilities
- Define control health management strategy and ensure product safety and compliance controls are effective worldwide.
- Lead execution and maintenance of proactive safety solutions of large-scale category for worldwide stores and apply learnings globally.
- Build mechanisms and send out communication to leaders on the progress.
- Manage cross functional teams indirectly involved with the execution of the program.
- Partner with Business intelligence teams to build required reporting and sharing periodic updates with leaders.
- Build processes and automate workflows where possible with the use of AI.
- 4+ years of compliance program management, legal, governance, audit, risk/loss prevention, or equivalent experience
- 3+ years of managing food safety and quality in a large-scale retail or manufacturing environment experience
- Bachelor's degree in Food Science or related field
- Knowledge of retail food code and regulations governing grocery retail at local, state, and federal levels
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent
- Experience handling confidential information
- Experience interacting with local food safety regulators
- 3+ years of program requirements definition and data and metrics leveraging to drive improvements experience
- Professional auditing qualification, or similar risk or compliance credentials
- Experience with SQL and Excel
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