Graduate Programme : European MBA/MSc Leadership Program for Amazon Operations

Opportunities available across the UK, France, Spain, Germany, Italy - Please specify your top 3 preferences on location when applying.

Are you looking to become a leader in a global operation with hundreds of managers and thousands of employees? Would you like the challenge of delivering continuously improving customer experience to over 120 million customers? If the answer is yes, then look no further than the Amazon Pathways Leadership program.

As a future leader you will face challenges that result in life changing lessons or benchmark success. The Amazon Pathways Leadership program is looking for high potential graduates who are ready to do what it takes to become Amazon's next General Managers, Directors and VPs. Through a series of intense, progressively challenging opportunities in the core of our world class operations, we will stretch your leadership capacity to its full potential. The leadership lessons you learn and credibility you develop will benefit you over the rest of your career and quickly prepare you for effective executive leadership. Are you ready?

An Amazon Pathways program candidate begins as a front-line manager in either a Fulfillment Center (FC) or Customer Service (CS) Center. As front-line managers, Pathways leaders have an opportunity to develop a people-focused leadership style, while mastering the tools, processes and operations culture that have created the most customer centric company on Earth. This includes responsibility for the delivery of results across several departments, while driving a culture of continuous improvement and overseeing the leadership development of front-line Area Managers. The expectation of Pathways is to earn your promotion to a Senior Operations Manager position, with operational and financial responsibility for a business unit within a fulfillment center including the ownership to create and execute an operational budget.

Within 3-4 years of starting the program, many Pathways participants say they have leadership experience twice that of their peers from the same class. For over 10 years, the Amazon Pathways program has attracted innovative, talented leaders who are now highly influential Senior Leaders and Executives in critical areas of Amazon's business, in locations all over the world. Join us as we continue to make history.

Candidate Requirements:

• MBA or MSc in Logistics/Operations/Engineering or similar is required, from a leading EU University or Business School
• Significant previous experience in operational logistics/supply chain, manufacturing, transportation, general management or engineering role
• Demonstrated leadership ability and strong people management capability, from a fast-paced, challenging environment
• Strong oral and written communication
• Strong analytical skills, including setting, monitoring and improving KPIs and other metrics
• Sound business judgment
• Experience supporting customers internally and externally
• Knowledge of Lean, Six Sigma and Kaizen techniques desirable but not essential   Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. 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. All offers are conditional on references and a successful background screening check. This check will include previous employment verification, qualification verification (if relevant) and a basic criminal check. Further details of this policy and procedure will be sent to you along with your conditional offer.  

Please send your CV to me at:   Sandra Richez Head of Global MBA Career Services & Student Affairs Tel. +334 9318 3237 Sandra.richez@edhec.edu www.edhec-mba.com