DESCRIPTIONOur vision is to protect customers from products that are illegal, unsafe or non-compliant. The Compliance and Safety team for the Middle East & Africa (MEA) Region is looking for a Risk Manager to manage our reactive product and food safety controls aimed at protecting our customers from unsafe products.This role is responsible for creating and driving a roadmap of risk policies and controls across business, legal, compliance, operations, tech, and other cross-functional teams globally. This role owns program level metrics and ensures success by leading risk initaitives, prioritization discussions, and reporting.Key job responsibilities
- Develop and maintain key relationships with internal stakeholders locally and around the world, particularly teams focused on product and food safety and policy development
- Deep dive specific product safety and compliance related requirements (e.g. external regulatory and internal Amazon policy requirements) and make data-driven compliance solution towards customer safety
- Drive ingestion of compliance needs, design initiatives and partner with program teams to launch controls
- Identify and lead improvement projects, eliminating excess processes, driving efficiencies and creating predicable process controls and processes (including automated tools and systems) to support improving state of compliance, business expansion and program efficiency
- Design success metrics/goals, and report out on progress, obstacles, and path to resolution to cross-functional leadership
- Convert team knowledge into scalable standard operating procedures, establish swim lanes across a diversifying and quickly-changing organization, and reduce complex workflows to aligned RACIs and approval mechanismsA day in the life
The Risk Manager is a key driver of Amazon\'s compliance programs for food and products. The role works across multiple global stakeholders, including operations and tech, to drive a large portfolio of key deliverables that are tracked at an executive level.About the team
The MEA Compliance & Safety team is charged with protecting Amazon customers from illegal and unsafe products. Our customers trust us to ensure a trustworthy shopping experience and provide a safe shopping environment for them and their families.Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you identify with having a disability, or other support need, please let me know if an accommodation/adjustment would be beneficial to you during the application, and hiring process.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 4+ years of compliance program management, legal, governance, audit, risk/loss prevention, or equivalent experience
- Bachelor\'s degree or equivalent
- Experience handling confidential information
- Proficiency in Arabic and English: Candidates must be able to speak, read, and write fluently in both Arabic and English.PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS- 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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