Sr. Manager, Regional Safety, Global Road Safety

Description

Application deadline: Oct 25, 2026

The Sr. Manager, Regional Safety leads end-to-end on-the-road (OTR) transportation safety across Amazon's North America - West region. This leader owns the region's transportation safety strategy and implementation, vision, governance, investment allocation, and partner engagement - while leveraging worldwide GRS metrics and standards to drive safer roads. They lead and develop a team of regional safety experts, identify risk opportunities and direct safety mitigations. They will build the scalable mechanisms that let the business move quickly and in compliance. Success is measured by reduced on-road incidents and decreased safety risks, a strong safety culture, and improvement in transportation safety metrics and outcomes. The end-customers are the thousands of Amazon associates and carrier drivers who operate across the region's network each day.

Key job responsibilities
In this role you will lead day-to-day OTR safety operations across the regional network, serving as the primary regional safety resource for operations teams, third-party carriers, and transportation teams; execute safety strategies, collect data for risk assessments, and respond to regulatory requests. Your team will oversee incident investigations, ensure regulatory compliance and proper documentation in Amazon's incident database, implement standardized field risk and hazard data collection, and drive corrective actions from investigation findings. It is critical to build and maintain strong relationships with regional leaders, third-party carriers and partners, and local operations and transportation teams; influence and engage stakeholders without direct authority. You will lead and develop a team of regional safety managers to drive safety excellence; set high-bar standards for safety leadership and standard work; hold the team accountable to our Leadership Principles. Your team will own the region's core safety metrics aligned to GRS (VSCR, VCR, TSIR, APMKM), close reporting blind spots, and establish a defensible data baseline for governance and investment decisions. Drive scalable mechanisms for increased driver capability, vehicle compliance, fatigue risk management, and carrier accountability. Maintain a strong field presence across operational sites, conducting site reviews and audits to verify that safety standards are consistently applied and to close execution gaps between policy and the ground.

About the team
Global Road Safety leads the world's safest transportation network, protecting the lives of people on the road everywhere. Using a data-driven approach, Global Road Safety fosters the safe mobility of our drivers, partners, community members, and other vulnerable road users. We align on-road standards and procedures globally through the Safety Management System (SMS) framework - Safety Policy, Safety Risk Management, Safety Assurance, and Safety Promotion - and think creatively about safety, inventing for customers and the community.

Basic Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree
- Experience in safety and/or environmental programs in manufacturing, production, service operations, or related fields
- 8+ years of logistics operations experience
- 8+ years of working cross functionally with various operations partners and support functions
- Experience using safety data and metrics to determine operational improvements
- 8+ years of team management experience
- 4+ years of safety investigation or risk management experience
- Experience deploying a Safety Management System (SMS) or equivalent framework across a large, fragmented operation.

Preferred Qualifications

- Master's degree in safety, transportation, engineering, or related field, or relevant industry experience.
- 8+ years of transportation safety or operations experience.
- Expert knowledge of transportation safety regulations and best practices (e.g. FMCSA/DOT).
- Experience building field safety capability and developing frontline safety leaders.

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits .

USA, AZ, Phoenix - 140,800.00 - 246,400.00 USD annually
USA, CO, Denver - 140,800.00 - 246,400.00 USD annually