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Amazon Senior Product Compliance Manager, Global Trade Services - Product Compliance in Waterfall City, South Africa
Description
Amazon Direct Import Product Compliance empowers vendors and internal business partners to efficiently move compliant and safe products across borders at scale. We are looking for a smart, energetic, hard-working, and creative Sr. Product Compliance Manager to support our rapidly growing and evolving businesses. You will work directly with business leadership, tax, legal, catalog, inventory management, procurement teams, logistics, and other internal business partners to drive projects that address critical business and regulatory requirements. In this role, you will be part of a team responsible for the development of the strategies, policies, processes, tools and solutions that will be a key enabler for cross-border movement of goods into South Africa. The successful candidate will have a strong combination of trade and product compliance knowledge, project management skills, and regulatory subject matter expertise. This is an exciting and challenging position that provides product compliance support to Amazon’s Retail business by acting as the SME leader to a team obsessed with ensuring Amazon’s successful adherence with import compliance requirements. This is your opportunity to work in a highly visible space and be part of a vibrant and fast-growing company!
Key job responsibilities
-Manage GTS Product Compliance program for South Africa to ensure imported products comply with applicable regulatory standards
-Identify, scope, and communicate global regulatory requirements and provide early notice of potential changes to requirements
-Build, implement, and launch policies to operationalize global and regional regulatory and compliance requirements at scale
-Act as a key interface and representative between the global program, operations, tech, legal and business stakeholders
-Develop relationships with relevant industry bodies to obtain insights and help shape the regulatory landscape
-Partner with Amazon’s internal technology teams to develop best-in-class compliance business processes and systems that scale
-Drive continuous improvement to program and operations capabilities, strategies and practices
-Develop and maintain accurate metrics to measure program health and proactively identify risks
A day in the life
In this role no two days will be exactly the same but regular activities will include:
-Developing and communicating regulatory analysis and recommendations for managing compliance requirements for new and innovative business initiatives
-Partnering with business, legal and operations partners to develop strategies to support rapid growth of Amazon's import programs
-Collaborating with technical teams to define requirements for Amazon's systems, driving relevant import and export programs
-Streamlining and improving regulatory monitoring and risk mitigation strategies and processes
About the team
Global Trade Services (GTS) empowers customers, vendors, sellers and internal partners to efficiently move compliant and safe products, technology, and software across borders. We build import/export solutions to place the right products in the right destinations at the right time and cost. We expertly navigate increasing regulatory compliance complexity to mitigate risk, increase predictability and earn trust with external stakeholders.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Cape Town, ZAF | Waterfall City, ZAF
Basic Qualifications
6+ years of compliance, audit or risk management experience
Bachelor's degree or equivalent
Experience building cross-functional partnerships and influencing stakeholders across the organization to act without having a direct reporting relationship
Experience developing and implementing of standards, policies and programs or equivalent
5+ years of experience with South African product compliance regulations
Preferred Qualifications
Project Management Professional (PMP) or equivalent certification
Experience leveraging technology and implementing lean principles / Six Sigma methodologies to drive process improvements or equivalent
Master's degree or equivalent
Experience with identifying, analyzing, and operationalizing import regulatory requirements established by Partner Government Agencies
Amazon is an equal opportunities employer, and we value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. We welcome applications from all members of society irrespective of age, sex, disability, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief. Amazon is strongly committed to diversity within its community and especially welcomes applications from South African citizens who are members of designated groups who may contribute to Employment Equity within the workplace and the further diversification of ideas. In this regard, the relevant laws and principles associated with Employment Equity will be considered when appointing potential candidates. We are required by law to verify your ability to work lawfully in South Africa. Amazon requires that you submit a copy of either your identity document or your passport and any applicable work permit if you are a foreign national, along with an updated curriculum vitae.