At Amazon, our mission is to be the most customer-centric company on Earth. To achieve this goal, we need to develop leaders who represent and can innovate on behalf of a diverse and demanding global customer base.

Job Description

The Global Procurement Organization (GPO) identifies and procures goods and services at the best value for business, maintaining the quality of products and ensuring that alternative sources of supply are available.

The Social Responsibility (SR) and Human Rights program drives customer trust and business continuity by ensuring respect for the rights of workers throughout Amazon's supply chain and operations.

We uphold company standards and expectations (such as Amazon's Supply Chain Standards and Human Rights Principles), and seek to constantly improve the tools and processes that we use in doing so.

Your Role

You will work under the leadership of the Sr. Project Manager (SR Operations APAC) within the Global Procurement Sustainability (GPS) team, closely with Amazon's Social Responsibility team and the Global Procurement Organization to implement mechanisms to meet Amazon's human rights principles and Supply Chain Standards and to ensure our suppliers are compliant with those.

You will be responsible for Audit risk assessment activities across Global Operations suppliers and remediation plan coordination.

Key Responsibilities

• Work across GPO, collaborating with external partners (Audit companies) and internal business partners, such as Operations, WW SR and Sustainability, Legal and Risk Management to identify and assess regulatory and human rights compliance risks as it relates to our supplier baseline.
• Review new and existing suppliers (legacy) ensuring that they meet Human Rights compliance, safety, terms of service standards, investigate suspicious suppliers / driver activity and behaviors that could pose a risk to Amazon, our customers, or others.
• Drive cross-functional assessments of risks and controls to align to company strategy and risk appetite. Be able to assess the real situation sometimes with limited information in hand in order to make an independent decision about the suppliers' integrity and compliance standards.
• Be responsible for site-level/ supplier remediation of high-severity issues identified in assessments, or external sources (i.e., whistle-blower, media alerts, worker voice).
• Assist with creation of investigation plans to determine root cause, and leads the remediation efforts with CSR while maintaining communication with leadership and impacted stakeholders.
• Coordinate and plan remediation activities for suppliers in case of high-risk findings.
• Handle day-to-day issues (constantly thinking about how to invent and simplify to improve).

Requirements

We are looking for candidates with:

• Bachelor's degree in business, engineering, management, finance, sustainability, or similar.
• Experience in procurement, contracts, or negotiation.
• Business communication skill in Japanese and English.
• 3+ years of working experience.
• Experience in Audit, Risk and/or Compliance experience preferably in operations, transportation, logistics industry.
• Experience and proficiency in project management.
• Good level of communication to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Basic knowledge of data collection and analysis methods.

Preferred Qualifications

We also welcome applicants with:

• Advanced degree (MBA, MS).
• Experience in Sustainability or Corporate Social Responsibility.
• Experience working in risk mitigation, compliance function, internal controls, legal, Human Rights compliance, labor employment, transportation or supply chain experience.
• Experience in managing projects or/and case management or/and experience in improving process.
• Able to work effectively with multiple stakeholders across different organizations.

The estimated salary for this position is ¥40,000,000 - ¥60,000,000 per year, depending on qualifications and experience.