The Cost Management team is the financial accountability and controllership engine of our Store Development organization. We own the cost intelligence, vendor performance, and financial governance programs that help leadership invest smarter and operate more efficiently. We are a direct execution team: we don't advise on problems, we own and solve them. Every program is designed to scale with the business and drive impact for every dollar we manage.
Requirements
5+ years of program or project management experience
3+ years of team management experience
Experience defining and executing program requirements and using data and metrics to determine improvements
6+ years of construction cost management experience
Experience managing, analyzing and communicating results to senior leadership
Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Finance, Business, or a related field
Experience with AI/ML technologies
Experience in a procurement organization performing vendor management, contract management, negotiating complex purchases, and bidding
Experience in retail or grocery construction or facilities management
Experience with programmatic cost management across multiple projects or locations
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Additional Information
Amazon's Worldwide Grocery Stores, Growth & Development team is searching for a Sr. Manager, Cost Management.
If you're a proven leader who thrives at the intersection of financial strategy, operational rigor, and team development, and you want your work to matter at the highest levels of the organization, this could be your future role. It is an opportunity to lead program-level financial accountability and controllership for one of the world's most ambitious physical retail networks and own cost intelligence, vendor performance, and financial governance across the Store Development team who supports more than 600+ grocery locations across North America and Europe.
As Senior Manager of Cost Management, you'll lead a program management team that informs how we invest, operate, and scale across hundreds of grocery locations. Here's what sets this role apart:
- You are engaged in the full picture. You're not managing one piece of the financial equation, you're leading the function responsible for financial accountability across the full development lifecycle: cost intelligence, vendor performance, and the governance that keeps every dollar accountable.
- Construction strategy, Repairs & Maintenance (R&M) performance, and executive reporting all flow through your team and the output directly impacts decisions made by the most senior leaders in the business.
- You'll drive AI strategy for Store Development by coordinating across teams, influencing prioritization, and driving adoption of AI-powered tools so the right capabilities get resourced, implemented, and measured for real impact across the portfolio.
Key job responsibilities
- Lead a team of program managers delivering financial accountability and controllership across cost analytics, vendor lifecycle management, and executive financial reporting.
- Set the strategic direction for cost-to-build baseline development and cost modeling across all store formats, serving as the senior escalation point.
- Oversee the team that owns the full R&M vendor lifecycle - contracting, onboarding, performance management, rate validation, and invoice auditing - for Whole Foods Market and Daily Shop locations.
- Own executive-level cost and vendor performance reporting to senior and VP-level leadership, including monthly goal tracking and quarterly business reviews.
- Serve as the single-threaded AI leader for Store Development and drive requirements, testing, and adoption of AI-powered cost and vendor management platforms.
- Drive cross-functional alignment across construction, design, capital planning, procurement, finance, and facilities on cost control goals and financial guardrails.
- Lead process improvement, governance, and controls across construction management and vendor management systems to drive consistency, data integrity, and scalability across the portfolio.
A day in the life
Your day often starts with a team check-in to align your cost managers and vendor program managers on priorities before diving into your own work. Some mornings call for reviewing an executive cost report before reaching senior leadership; others begin with a vendor escalation your team needs help navigating. Midday might bring a cross-functional session with construction and design on new store format cost assumptions, or an AI tool review with the product team. By late afternoon, you're prepping for the next steering committee to ensure leadership has the right numbers for the next big decision.
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