Amazon
Sr. Policy Expert, Safety, RISC, Global Food and Product Safety
Our mission is to be Earth's most customer-centric company. This is what unites Amazonians across teams and geographies as we are all striving to delight our customers and make their lives easier, one innovative product, service, and idea at a time.
Legal
Full-time
Office | Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Visa sponsorship · No
Senior · A role for someone with advanced knowledge and skills. May involve mentoring, leading others or specialisation. Typically at least 5 years of experience.
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Why Amazon
The scope and scale of our mission drives us to seek diverse perspectives, be resourceful, and navigate through ambiguity. Inventing and delivering things that were never thought possible isn't easy, but we embrace this challenge every day.
About the role
DESCRIPTION
At Amazon, we're working to be the most customer-centric company on earth. To get there we need passionate and hard-working people. If you are interested about building innovative systems to protect customer safety at scale while enabling Amazon to build the place where customers can find and buy anything online, this is your chance to make history.
The Regulatory Intelligence, Safety and Compliance (RISC) team's charter is to protect Amazon customers from products that are illegal, illegally marketed, unsafe, or otherwise prohibited by Amazon policies. The Product Safety policy lead will own analysis and risk assessment activities required to formulate WW product safety polices. They will serve as our go-to subject matter expert for difficult questions regarding the optimal policies required to make scalable decisions related to product safety with a focus on: OTC, cosmetics, food, and food supplements.
Key job responsibilities • Responsible for conducting product safety risk assessments across a broad range of product categories • Make high-judgement decisions regarding policies related to product safety in order to meet WW regulatory obligations and enhance customer safety • Perform analysis of data from a variety of sources to identify possible risk indicators to support policy decisions • Coordinate with Legal teams to integrate legal and safety analysis in support of key policy decisions • Work with a wide range of cross-functional teams to communicate Amazon's safety and compliance strategies to stakeholders • Communicate regularly with leadership and ensure consistent reporting against commitments • Drafting and presenting strategies to enhance risk management practices, including analysis of industry practice
About the team Here at Selling Partner Services, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have 14 employee-led affinity groups, reaching 10,000+ employees in chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and we host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our DEI Ambassador Program. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 16 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Knowledge of Microsoft Office products and applications at an advanced level - Experience in compliance, audit or risk management - Bachelor's degree or equivalent
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 - 10+ years of compliance, audit or risk management experience
What you'll be responsible for
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Legal Research
Conduct legal and factual research to collate findings, and inform business and legal decisions.
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Legal Operations
Review laws and standards to implement, update and maintain the organization’s policies, standards, and procedures.
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Legal Advisory and Risk Management
Advise on the whole spectrum of legal matters that apply to the business and its offerings.
Skills you'll need
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Negotiation
Persuades others to shift their views and/or behaviours with the goal of reaching consensus
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Critical thinking
Identifies and synthesizes patterns and trends amongst various sources of information to reach a meaningful conclusion, perspective or insight
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Attention to detail
Accurately identifies and rectifies discrepancies or errors that exists in information and deliverables
Meet the team
