Public Policy Manager, (Space & Connectivity)
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Description Work hard and make history with Amazon’s International Public Policy and Government Affairs Team. The International Public Policy Manager will join a dynamic team that works across Europe, Middle East, Africa, India and Asia Pacific, in support of Amazon’s global consumer and digital businesses.
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Description
Work hard and make history with Amazon’s International Public Policy and Government Affairs Team. The International Public Policy Manager will join a dynamic team that works across Europe, Middle East, Africa, India and Asia Pacific, in support of Amazon’s global consumer and digital businesses. Like our business interests, our policy issues are broad, forward-thinking, and driven by what is best for our customers. The International Public Policy team works with a wide range of national, local, and supranational policymakers, industry organizations, and non-governmental organizations across policy issues spanning the consumer and commercial environment - including but not limited to digital technology, consumer affairs, connectivity, economic development, e-commerce exports, logistics, devices, and tax.
This role will drive advocacy and outreach to policymakers in the Middle East & North Africa for Amazon Leo, Amazon’s initiative to launch a constellation of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites that will provide low-latency, high-speed broadband connectivity to unserved and underserved communities around the world.
Key job responsibilities
The Manager will work closely with cross-functional Leo teams, including Business, Regulatory, and Legal, to drive campaigns and manage senior policymaker engagement across the Middle East and Africa, including defining strategy, executing advocacy campaigns, and managing engagement with multilateral and regional organizations, as appropriate. The Manager will communicate with consultants and trade associations and represent the company at conferences and meetings. The Manager will also be able to immediately and directly enhance Amazon’s advocacy on a broad range of telecoms and space-related policy issues.
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline (e.g. Law, Political Science, Public Policy, Public Affairs, Economic Development)
- Relevant experience dealing with the international legislative and regulatory policy process, preferably within the telecoms, connectivity, space, or technology industries.
- Relevant experience in advocacy and using spoken and written arguments to persuade and inform.
Preferred Qualifications
- Master's degree or above in a relevant field
- Experience effectively communicating complex concepts through written and verbal communication
- Experience dealing well with ambiguity, prioritizing needs, and delivering measurable results in an agile environment
- Strong knowledge of connectivity/telecoms, spectrum, space, or other regulated industry policy issues.
- Able to demonstrate experience through previous work within companies, consultancies, trade associations, the government, or equivalent organizations
- Able to demonstrate relevant regional experience across multiple countries in the Middle East and North Africa.
- Demonstrated ability to effectively and comfortably interact at all corporate and political levels. Ability to work with technical and specialized teams to distill factual, relevant and easily understandable talking points and other messaging, and persuasively deliver it to relevant audiences.
- Maintains highest personal levels of ethical conduct, confidentiality, and integrity, with strongest professional reputation in the industry.
- Ability to identify key technical aspects pertaining to corporate operations in legislative and regulatory proposals, understand business implications, and synthesize for internal and external customers.
- Ability to influence, negotiate with, and effectively persuade others. Must be flexible and demonstrate strong judgment, and decision-making skills, and political acumen and awareness.
- Ability to think critically, process data from multiple sources, forecast potential scenarios, prioritize based on probability and desired outcome, and recommend a best course of action.
- Experience working effectively across cross-functional teams
- Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers.
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- Amazon Middle East and North Africa FZ-LLC
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